Ben Kimura (artist)

Ben Kimura (Japanese: 木村べん, Hepburn: Kimura Ben, 1947 – February 18, 2003) was a Japanese gay erotic artist. Kimura, along with George Takeuchi and Sadao Hasegawa, is noted by artist and historian Gengoroh Tagame as a central figure in the second wave of contemporary gay artists that emerged in Japan in the 1970s.