Massao Ohno, Japanese-Brazilian graphic artist and poetry editor, paves the way for new poets in the 60s´ when he publishes the Anthology of the Newest. He launches, among others, Hilda Hilst and Roberto Piva, redefining not only the horizon of Brazilian contemporary poetry, but the esthetics of graphic art, something visible in books published today by major Brazilian editing houses.

Massao Ohno, also known as the samurai of the shadows, is at the same time one of the most important and one of the least known members of the Brazilian cultural scenario. He incorporated art works by Manabu Mabe, Cyro del Nero, Arcangelo Ianelli, Aldemir Martins, Wesley Duke Lee, Millôr Fernandes and Yutaka Takaoka to his books, promoting an intense exchange between literature and the visual arts. He created the book-object. He published around 800 books, most of them collectors´ items today. He was the friend of Glauber Rocha and Rogério Sganzerla and participated in the production of The Red Light Bandid, a classic of the Cinema Novo period.

Massao, the son of immigrants like so many Brazilians, a man with a dream, with a poetic ideal. Massao the artist, transgressor, convention-breaker, catalyzer of the arts in Brazil. Massao, the book-man.