1. Jidai o hiraita shashinkatachi : 1960-70-nendai (Photographers Who Created a New Age: 1960s-70s). Tokyo: Tōkyō-to Bunka Shinkōkai: Tōkyō-to Shashin Bijutsukan, 1993, p.122-123.
Eikoh Hosoe was a quite successful photographer working commercially as well as artistically. There is a distinct theatricality in his images. In Ordeal by Roses he featured the writer Yukio Mishima (who later committed ritual suicide as a protest against the changes and Westernization occurring in Japan) in a series of erotic portraits, and his series Man and Woman presented some of the most iconic images from the time.

"Rough, Blurred, and Out Of Focus: Provoke Magazine and Post-War Japanese Photography," Case 2, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, January 2-February 27, 2012