Japanese CountercultureTerayama Shuji (1935 1983) was an avant garde Japanese poet, dramatist, film director, and photographer known for his highly provocative work. In this inventive and revealing work, Steven Ridgely examines Terayama's life and art to show that a conventional notion of him does not do full justice to the meaning and importance of his wide ranging, often playful body of work. Ridgely places Terayama at the center of Japanese and global counterculture and