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Toshi Maruki

Toshi Maruki was a Japanese painter. Maruki is best known for the Hiroshima Panels series that she and her husband Iri Maruki produced collaboratively from around 1950. The Marukis took on heavy themes such as the atomic bomb, genocide, and environmental pollution, and constantly voiced their anti-war and peace message through their art. Toshi Maruki is also known as an accomplished picture book author.