Moriguchi, who studied in Japan and Paris, took the influence of Op art and applied it to the traditional art of kimono painting.
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Back to Japan: The Life and Art of Master Kimono Painter Kunihiko Moriguchi by Marc Petitjean and translated by Adriana Hunter is published by the Other Press and available online.
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Nathan Gelgud is a cartoonist in Los Angeles who makes comics about movies, art, books and sometimes himself for the New York Times, the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.
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