Among the artists Okamoto associated with during his stay in Paris were Andr?Breton ( 1896 1966 ), the leader of Surrealism, and Kurt Seligmann ( 1900 62 ), a Swiss Surrealist artist, who was the Surrealists'authority on magic and who met Okamoto's parents, Ippei and Kanoko Okamoto, during a trip to Japan in 1936.
