Born in 1957 in the city of Osaka, Japan, photographer Ken-Ichi Murata still lives and works there.His art is a sensational new discovery.
The pretty Japanese girls in his hand-colored black-and-white photographs transport us into the erotic fantasy worlds of a Japanese artist who is inspired by thousand-year-old traditions and sexual rites.
Murata enchants us with nymph-like princesses and half-nude girls in kimonos. Here are stimulating role play and exotic charm in their purest form.
Murata began displaying his art photography at a public exhibition in Tokyo in 1996. It was a huge success and was the first glimpse the work got into the amazing dream world of this most amazing artist. Other exhibitions and press coverage soon followed.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1996 "Violent Princess", Tokyo.　
1996 "Angels thinking", Kyoto
1997 "Contemporary Remi - Manyoshu", Osaka
1998 Art space Mirage, Tokyo
1998 Kyoto molding art University, Kyoto
2000 "Princess Ark ", Osaka
2003 "The Princesses who live in Deserted Garden", Osaka
2003 "Goddess who live in Darkness", Tokyo
2006 "Japanes Princess ", Tokyo
2006 "Japanese Princess ", Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Roma
BOOKS
2005 Japanese Princess, Edition-Reuss
2007 Princes of Desire, Edition-Reuss
2007 "The New Erotic Photography", Taschen