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Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1947, Harukawa studied painting at the Nihon University College of Art. He was deeply influenced by the Ero Guro Nonsense (Erotic Grotesque Nonsense) movement that flourished in pre-war Japan. This aesthetic, which combined eroticism with grotesque horror and surreal humor, became the skeleton upon which he hung his fleshy masterpieces.

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