Photographer Naoko Tachibana showcases Japanese cross-dressing josou, newhalf culture
We’re on a bit of a cross-dressing roll at the moment. After blogging about a major new josou club and bar in Osaka we now want to introduce a new photography exhibition at Ginza’s Vanilla Gallery.
It features portraits Tachibana has made over six years of newhalf (shemales) and josou cross-dressers.
The exhibition is called “Traces of josou and the Theory of Happiness”. Tachibana runs a studio that specializes in portrait photography for cross-dressers and shemales, as well as hair and make-up services. She has worked with top idols to old-timers in their seventies — more than 1,000 cross-dressers over the years.
Tachibana is also responsible for LadyBeard’s photography book “Sing, Dance, DESTROY!!” and the popular otoko no ko cross-dresser idol book “Yuri Danshi”.
The exhibition runs from January 26th to February 7th, and costs ¥500.
Vanilla Gallery is Tokyo’s leading erotic art venue. It also hosts the annual Orient Industry sex doll exhibition.
