Ben Sakoguchi is a Japanese-American artist who was born in San Bernardino, California. At age five, his family was interned at the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona following the enforcement of Executive Order 9066.
Sakoguchi was an art instructor at Pasadena City College from 1964 until his retirement in 1997. Aphrodisiac Brand, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is a mock orange-crate label. It shows a rhinoceros slaughtered for its horn, which is erroneously believed to be an aphrodisiac or a cure for cancer in Traditional Chinese medicine as Cornu Rhinoceri Asiatici (犀角, xījiǎo, "rhinoceros horn"). == References ==