Remember Hikaru Toda?
She's the filmmaker who produced a documentary about love hotels we featured in 2014.
Now the Osaka- and London-based Toda (who has lived abroad for over 20 years) and her production studio, Little Stranger Films, is working on a documentary, Of Love & Law, about Japan's first LGBT law firm.
She has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $30,000 to finish the project.
This is a documentary for anyone that has ever found themselves challenging or being challenged by the status quo.
Of Love & Law tells the hidden stories of people who ...
So-called "vagina artist" Rokudenashiko has been found guilty and convicted of a charge of obscenity, and ordered to pay a fee of ¥400,000 (around $3,700).
Rokudenashiko ("good-for-nothing girl"), whose real name is Megumi Igarashi and whose first manga book has just been released in English, was first arrested in July 2014 for distributing data that enabled recipients to make 3D prints of her vagina.
She was arrested again in December of that year for making a plaster mold of a kayak based on her genitals, which was displayed at an adult shop.
Her defence argues that her work ...
"Vagina artist" Megumi Igarashi (aka Rokudenashiko) has announced she will marry British rock musician Mike Scott of the Waterboys.
Igarashi (44) will marry Scott (57), who is popular in Japan and also composed a song, "ROK ROK ROKUDENASHIKO," for Igarashi in 2015.
We actually saw Igarashi once at an event and she was attending it with a foreigner (not Scott). We wondered then if he was a lover and whether her tastes were of the interracial variety. I guess we were at least half right!
Igarashi is still fighting her latest court case for obscenity and joked on Twitter that she would ...
We blogged last autumn about the Rokudenashiko's upcoming first English-language book, What Is Obscenity? The Story of a Good For Nothing Artist and her Pussy.
Now the Canada-based Koyama Press has released more details and images ahead of its release in May.
The book is written by "vagina artist" Rokudenashiko (the artist name of Megumi Igarashi), translated by Anne Ishii, and edited by Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins. The cover is by the famous designer Chip Kidd.
Rokudenashiko has been arrested twice for "obscenity" for making and distributing artworks based on her ...
The start of the shunga exhibition in Tokyo, the first major public event of historical erotic prints, has, not surprisingly, tested the boundaries of what is legally permitted and what is "morally" acceptable.
While the September issue of venerable art magazine Bijutsu Techo featured shunga, as well as a dialogue between two women who really know about sex and censorship ("vagina artist" Rokudenashiko/Megumi Igarashi and former porn star turned manga-ka Nayuka Mine), not to mention some mildly sexy Edo-era-inspired photos of Mitsu Dan by Mika Ninagawa, it stopped short of printing the ...
Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi), the Japanese "vagina artist" accused of obscenity, has always been very business-savvy.
She has released plenty of artworks as cheap and accessible merchandise, not to mention manga, books, and even a "rental service" and sex toy. (She needs the money not least to pay for her legal fees!)
Now we are delighted that one of her books has been translated and will be published in English by Koyama Press in 2016.
What Is Obscenity? The Story Of A Good For Nothing Artist And Her Pussy is written by Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi), translated by Anne Ishii, ...
Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi) continues her usual knowing, tongue-in-cheek antics.
You can now rent Japan's most controversial erotic personality, nicknamed the "vagina artist".
Following her first manga book, she is now offering a "rental" service where you can hire her for certain periods of time. This is obviously a playful take on the boyfriend and girlfriend and other "companion" rental services in Japan (not escort services -- there are plenty of those too).
Arrested for making artworks based on her own genitalia, Igarashi is currently fighting the Japanese state's ...
"Gender, Genitor, Genitalia - Rokudenashiko Tribute" is an exhibition planned for Hong Kong as a tribute to the struggle of "vagina artist" Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi).
Megumi Igarashi, who goes by the artist name of Rokudenashiko, calls her art "deko-man" (vagina decoration). She has been arrested for obscenity. Her crime was such projects as making a boat based on a mold of her genitalia. (Remember, this is all happening in Japan, where mythology says the gods created the islands through sex and fertility festivals continue to happen.)
The exhibitors are currently running ...
Japan is a country where the Kanamara penis festival (held yesterday) is fine but the depiction of the female genitalia is not.
The two arrests of Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi) have caused a furore around the world -- to be accurate, mostly around the world, not in Japan. The overseas press is much more interested in the tale of Igarashi and her arrests for distributing "obscene" materials.
Igarashi calls herself a "vagina artist". Her artist name means “Good-For-Nothing Girl” and she has proved up to the image, not least in the eyes of the vice squad.
Her "art of the ...
Good news if you want to support persecuted Japanese female artist Megumi Igarashi (aka Rokudenashiko). Known for her artworks modelled on her own vagina, she has produced glow-in-the-dark figures, boats, and more.
Now Rokudenashiko (meaning "Good-For-Nothing Girl") has taken the natural next step and created a sex toy!
She has worked with Tokyo Design (a brand by ) to make the Rokudenashiko Chinderella Masturbation Pod, a sex toy for men inspired by Igarashi's now notorious Dekoman "decorated pussy" art.
Igarashi was recently charged by police following her second arrest. ...
