Hajime Sawatari
Hajime Sawatari is a Japanese photographer. He is known for his fashion and advertising photography as well as his nudes of girls and women. He earned his degree from Nihon University's College of Art with a major in photography.
Hajime Sawatari
- Born
- 1940 · Tokyo.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Fields
- photography · portrait photography · nude
- Movements
- surrealism
- Education
- Nihon University
- Languages
- Japanese · English
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Hajime Sawatari is a Japanese photographer. He is known for his fashion and advertising photography as well as his nudes of girls and women. He earned his degree from Nihon University's College of Art with a major in photography.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
Hajime Sawatari (born 1940) is a photographer, of Japanese nationality. The photographer was born in Tokyo.
Hajime Sawatari was educated at Nihon University. Activity centred on nude, photography and portrait photography. Hajime Sawatari is associated with surrealism. Languages used include English and Japanese.
Composed from admitted, traceable facts · 27 September 2026
VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Hajime Sawatari. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q5639980 · wikipedia · Hajime Sawatari
In this article
Biography
Biography
Sawatari won the Japan Photograph Association's Nendo Sho (Annual Award) of 1973 for his book Nadia, which visually documents his romantic relationship with the Italian fashion model Nadia Galli. He won their 1979 award for Alice from the Sea. In 1990 he won the Kodansha Publication Culture Award in Photography for Taste of Honey. His photographs have been exhibited by many institutions including Ginza Wacoal Hall and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. His book Alice, an interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is controversial for its full-frontal nudity of a prepubescent girl.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1940
Hajime Sawatari born at Tokyo.
Books
• Nadia: Mori no Ningyokan. Japan: Camera Mainichi / Mainichishinbun-sha, 1973. Reprint edition: Japan: Asahi Sonorama, 1977. Excerpt edition: Nadia in Sicily 1971 Ricochet, 2004 • Alice / Arisu. Tokyo, Japan, 1973 • Seiji Ozawa. Japan: Shueisha, 1975 • Alice from the Sea. Tokyo, Japan: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1979 • Taste of Honey. IPC, 1990 (with Amy Yamada) • A Girl. Japan: Hysteric Glamour, 2000 • Nadia [B&W & Color, 2 vol. set], Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2016
Primary material
Documents and archives
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5639980: Hajime Sawatari
General reference · Wikidata
reference work
- “Hajime Sawatari”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Photography Year 1974. Time-Life Books, 1974, p. 183.
- 2.Vartanian, Ivan. Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s. Aperture. 174-178. 2009. 9781597110945.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
authority record
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Photography
11,393 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- H. W. BradleyPhotographer
- Hadoram ShirihaiPhotographer
- Haim SteinbachPhotographer
- Haje Jan KampsPhotographer
- Hajnalka SiposPhotographer
- Hakeem KhaaliqPhotographer
- Hakeem ShittaPhotographer
- Hakuyō FuchikamiPhotographer
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Hajime Sawatari?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.