A self-trained illustrator, Yamamoto’s artistic tastes expanded as he fell in love with the urban culture of the West coast. Yamamoto discovered a way to fuse the two different cultural backgrounds together into his work. Yamamoto nostalgically blends pop iconic characters from his new Western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements, balancing his Asian heritage with urban pop art. Born in Toba, Japan and raised in the United States, his work often features similar subject matter to that of famed Japanese artist and illustrator Yoshitomo Nara, with numerous portraits of stylized young women set against patterned backgrounds