Claim: Yukinori Yanagi's "Hinomaru-series" works feature Japanese pop culture icons and have been influential on artists of the same generation.
Evidence: Yanagi's "Hinomaru-series" works feature Japanese pop culture icons and attracted attention as it touched on the issues of Japanese social, political and economic ideologies. It has been influential on artists of the same generation including Takashi Murakami and Masato Nakamura.