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 ...
Last summer photography Manabu Koga delighted us with his series of sexy photographs of slinky girls swimming underwater in various states of undress.
Now he's back with a follow-up, Underwater Knee-High Girls plus, released this October.
Sexy Japanese girls in knee-high socks, diving underwater. The concept is unchanged -- when it ain't broke, don't fix it! -- though this time the slender maidens having some incongruous props like umbrellas and raincoats, meccha gear, and even rabbit ears.
The models include Shimarisu Mashima and ...
Photographer Hal is, as the name suggests, a photographer in Japan. While that may not sound unusual, one glance at his output and you'll see this is not the stuff you tend to encounter on Flickr.
Photographer Hal creates amazing vacuum-packed photography in which naked couples embrace each other in a plastic bag.
"Photographer Hal started packing couples together in futon vacuum bags to preserve their love forever. The process to achieve this eternal image is very organic and each couple can only be left inside the seal bag for 10 seconds."
Using futon sealing bags, the ...
Noriko Yabu is a 33-year-old artist who takes selfies.
Nothing special in that.
Except her surreal selfies are underwater, and she's naked.
Her series of images are called Suisou, which could be read as "aquarium" or "cistern" but the characters she uses mean "water funeral".
So is this a dead body in the water? Are we turning into necrophiliacs?
We find these immensely subtle and erotic, or are we revealing something about ourselves? Does no one else share this fetish?
There is a long tradition of water and sexuality in Japan. Nude scenes ...
Like girls in knee-high socks? Tick.
Like girls in swimsuits? Tick.
Then you will definitely like Underwater Knee-High Girls by Manabu Koga, a photobook that goes on sale at the end of August.
Why have one fetish when you can have two?
Koga is known for underwater photography, such as in the Mika Ninagawa film Helter Skelter.
Koga's project features around 100 photos of smiling and alluring ladies underwater while wearing the cosplayer's favorite kind of footwear.
So what do you think? Is this aquatic malarkey ...
Next month if you are in Tokyo you should check out this awesome collection of cosplay images by photographer Yuji Susaki.
The sexy and sensual images showcase Susaki's fifteen years of work investigating the curious mixture of the erotic and the dress-up that is cosplay.
“COSPLAY made in Japan” is showing at Emon Photo Gallery August 24 to September 14, 2013.
And if you think you recognize some of the sexy ladies in the pictures, you're not imagining things. Susaki uses idols and models rather than "amateur" cosplayers, including Mizuho Hata, Ai Amano, Chiaki Kyan, ...
Parks are not just for strolling around in.
Unlike other cities, Tokyo's parks are open all night. Photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki used to visit Chuo Park in the early Seventies and search for goings-on in the dark.
At the time, it was common for couples to go the park to have sex. But that alone wasn't what was interesting.
The couples weren't alone. People were watching.
In effect, the park was an open-air public happening bar.
After spending months entrenches with the voyeurs so that they would trust him as a "regular" in Chuo, Yoyogi and Aoyama parks, Yoshiyuki then ...
Sounds like a dream job, right?
A young Japanese man, Kei Akatsu, initially used crowdsourcing to create his online project, Bijo Sekai Chizu (Beautiful Girl World Map), in which he travels the globe, approaching hot girls and asking to photograph and profile them.
We imagine that most of the girls the guy comes up to think he's just a creep and tell him to get lost.
The science student has an advantage, though, in that his website looks quite nice and genuine.
He's so far been to Canada and America, and dipped his toe in South America and Southeast Asia.
We would ...
Sexy half-Korean, half-American haafu model and actress Kiko Mizuhara has posed for Shiseido and the results are, as expected, a touch provocative.
The shot is a "te-bura" (hand bra) shot that recalls a certain AKB48 controversy of late.
While Kiko does not have much bust to speak of -- but we have long promoted the charms of flat-chested girls -- she does look rather lovely nonetheless.
The photo was taken by Araki, the photographer famed for basically being a dirty old guy and taken lots of images of naked girls.
This is a behind-the-scenes shot. Unfortunately we don't ...
Another day, another fetish.
This time it's cute girls with twin ponytails -- particularly useful for grabbing hold of!
Photographer Kan Furuya seems to like young girls with this kind of haircut, so much so that he's made a whole photo book out of it, Harenochi Twin Tail, which went on sale in late October. In Japan, pigtails is called the "twin tail".
We guess he likes the bright and bubbly look of the girls, coy and cute -- but still sexy.
The book is part of a whole website called the Twin Tail Project Japan, which seeks to promote minor idols with the double hair look.
I ...
