Disturbing because the five series he’s accomplished thus far –Arakan, Fujohkan, Gyahtei, Dohshi and Jyoudo– all focus on societal outcasts, like street people, the elderly and the physically deformed. Distinct because he chooses his subjects according to how well they personify certain tenets of Buddhism; primarily the disregard of the flesh for transcendent spiritual aims. Aileen Torres.