Just posted at Néojaponisme: "On Medoruma Shun", by Daryl Maude.

Always wearing a pair of sunglasses, refusing TV interviews, and insisting that the media use only his pen name, Medoruma cuts an odd figure. He plays the recluse but is also an angry writer, powerful and loquacious. His work is at times beautiful, and at others horrifying, often in quick succession...

Also: Great Buddha of Kamakura 1914.