A short history of the hair nude: Full-frontal nude photo shoots by Japanese actresses, models, and idols
July 18, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
The "hair nude" is a curious Japanese-English term. It refers not just to naked flesh; it's naked flesh specifically with genital hair.
What is "shocking" here is the display of pubic hair, the line by which art and entertainment is usually fettered in Japan. It is fine to have plenty of nudity in films and print publications, but to avoid the century-old ambiguous obscenity laws, people censored or did not show actual pubic hair.
The hair nude set out to deliberately show this bush taboo was something to be challenged, both legally and artistically.
While the likes of Nobuyoshi Araki ...
Yuki Mamiya’s naked bondage sex scenes in Sweet Whip
January 13, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
We previously covered the slinky, slutty delights of Yuki Mamiya, aka Yuki Mogami.
The gravure idol is an occasional actress, appearing in such masterpieces as the soft-core pono Chotto Kawaii Iron Maiden.
She has already done semi-nude (butt) shots and some very revealing gravure idol "image videos".
But in May 2015 she did a hair nude (full frontal) shoot for Shukan Gendai, shot by the legendary Hajime Sawatari. He is a famous photographer but also does these hair nude shoots from time to time, such as with AV actress Yuu ...
Eimi Kuroda, a haafu beauty in all her naked glory
November 26, 2015
/ Tadashi Anahori
Behold the beauty of Eimi Kuroda.
Born in 1988, the haafu model has a Japanese father and English mother.
She is good friends with fellow fashion model and haafu Kiko Mizuhara. They are both Tokyo party girls and like to get up to high jinks, such as impromptu pole dancing.
Back in 2010, when she was still 22 and one would think careful about her future career, she jumped ahead and joined the hair nude club by posing for an entry in the Shincho Mook series of Gekkan photo-books. A series of alluring shots by Hajime Sawatari showed off her body -- all of it.
The choice ...