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 ...
It's only a couple of days since we blogged about Ryosuke Handa's very sexy photography and now we find another interesting example of Japanese cameramen doing what they do best.
Motoyuki Kobayashi has set himself the task of recording the "innocent youth" he sees in schoolgirls. Nothing sexual or kinky here -- no, it's all about seeing a "ray of life". He wants to produce an action of "good social chain" [sic] to combat all the bad stuff in the world.
Yeah, right.
Okay, so why only girls? And why the alluring poses?
So far he has done over 500 schoolgirls in Japan ...
I've never made a secret that I am definitely an ass man. It's the first thing I check for after I note the face of a hot girl, and it can make or break my opinion of a lady.
The same goes for idols and models. Certain overly cute girls are nice to look at -- but due to their lack of ass and hips, I would probably not even bother.
If I sound fussy then you should consider Ryosuke Handa, a Japanese photographer so particular about asses that he made a whole photography series about them! Yes, his new book is called, euphemistically, "Hips", and focuses just on many lovely women's ...
JAV porn star Saki Otsuka has turned photographer to make her own photography book, called, temptingly, "Mitsubai nude", to be released this month by ERECT magazine.
The magazine is an annual journal focussing on underground manga and subcultural figures, and this photography book is a kind of spin-off. The magazine itself is not pornographic but Saki has been a contributor before and, as the name ERECT perhaps hints, one of the backers is apparently a porn company.
"Mitsubai nude" (mitsubai means "bootleg") will feature Saki in a number of aquatic and sensual poses . It's being ...
