AllTogether: Goh Mishima, b. 1924, d. 1988, Japan. Untitled, ca 1980 and Untitled, ca 1980. Goh Mishima (born Tsuyoshi Yoshida), was a homoerotic fetish artist and founder of the magazine Sabu. Noted for his illustrations of "macho-type" men, often in bondage and with yakuza-inspired irezumi tattoos, he is regarded by artist and historian Gengoroh Tagame as a central figure in the first wave of contemporary gay artists in Japan. Upon the end of the Second World War in 1945, Mishima relocated to Tokyo, where he immersed himself in the city's nascent gay nightlife. Many bars and nightclubs during this era were operated by the yakuza; Mishima's fascination with their crew cut hairstyles and irezumi tattoos would figure heavily into his art. During the late 1950s, Mishima discovered the art of Tom of Finland, who came to influence his work. In 1955, Mishima met the writer Yukio Mishima at a gym and formed a friendship on their shared interest in athletics, bodybuilding, and hypermasculine sexuality. The two men drew artistic nudes together as a pastime; Goh Mishima began to pursue a career in homoerotic art in earnest with Yukio Mishima's encouragement and adopted Mishima's last name to use as his pen name in tribute. After Yukio Mishima's death by ritual suicide, Goh Mishima began to depict more violent material and themes in his art, including bondage, masochism, and torture. In 1964, Mishima was published in Fuzokukitan and Bara, two of the first magazines in Japan to publish gay pornographic content. He was an early contributor to Barazoku, which in 1971 became the first commercially circulated gay magazine in Japan. Dissatisfied with the bishōnen art style of Barazoku, Mishima founded Sabu in 1974, which focused on images of masculine men and was more explicitly p*rnographic. He drew the cover for Sabu from 1974 until his death from cirrhosis in 1988. The first two exhibitions of AllTogether were on view in Venice and Paris during April-June, 2022. We invite you to discover the artists online at alltogether.diesel.com. #GohMishima #AllTogetherShow #TomofFinlandFoundation #TheCommunity #Diesel