Hajime Sorayama February 22, 1947) is a Japanese painter, best known for his precisely detailed, erotic, hand-painted and airbrushed portrayals of women and of feminine, biomechanoid robots, and his design work on the original Sony AIBO robotic "pet". He describes his highly detailed style as "superrealism", which he says "deals with the technical issue of how close one can get to one's object."