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Pantheon entrant: Masahisa Fukase, circa 1973. Photo by Kazuoki Nozawa.

Born in Hokkaido in 1934. Son of a photo-studio owner. Has been in a coma since 1992. Now cared for, ironically, by Yoko, his wife whose departure from his life in 1975 compelled him to make his greatest work, 鴉, or Ravens. 

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Pantheon entrant: Masahisa Fukase, circa 1973. Photo by Kazuoki Nozawa.

Born in Hokkaido in 1934. Son of a photo-studio owner. Has been in a coma since 1992. Now cared for, ironically, by Yoko, his wife whose departure from his life in 1975 compelled him to make his greatest work, 鴉, or Ravens.

More here and here.

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