Emi Anrakuji is a Japanese photographer obsessed with the human body in its most intimate form. 

It is the result, in part, of his long periods of hospitalization. After graduating from art school in Tokyo in the mid-1980s, Anrakuji suffered a brain tumor that prevented him from developing his creativity for more than a decade. While he was slowly recovering, he began to make drawings and  engravings  until he finally came to use photography as a fundamental element of expression.