Hirotoshi Itoh is a Japanese stone sculptor who is known for his humorously imaginative ideas and incredible ability to make stones look soft, flexible, and light. In 1982, he graduated from the prestigious Tokyo National Fine Arts University where he experimented with turning cold hard metals into something warm and soft. Upon his graduation from the university, he returned to his family's stone masonry business: Creating tombstones, memorials, and religious statuary. However, in his personal time, he uses his imagination to create mind-bending and unconventional works of art. He struggled a bit to begin with due to using the wrong tools but he soon was able to use his masonry background to his advantage and use a battery powered hammer drill among other tools to start bringing such soft features to simple rocks. In his