His work, characterized by a vivid imagination and sensitivity, often appeared in foreign translations.
His work, characterized by emphasis on plotting and dialogue and often based on literary adaptations, frequently attacked or ridiculed social institutions and made provocative jabs at bourgeois society.
His work characterized the abstract essence of any computing device so well that it was in effect a challenge to actually build one.
As a reaction to the bombardment of images, sound and movement that is typical of ultramodern cities like Tokyo, a powerful streak of minimalism runs through their work, characterized either by barely fluctuating purity or intensely restrained playing techniques.
The first phase was completed in 1977 and it led to a decade of acceleration in his work characterized by segmentation (isolating individual elements in the geometric structure, creating visual and spatial dynamism).
Over the next half century, he proved to have a roving literary mind, and he had the career of a genuine man of letters, with a body of work characterized by both seriousness and audacity.
