Fresh from scandal, Tenchim relaunches career with sexy lingerie shoot and photo book

Formerly known as Tenka Hashimoto (橋本甜歌), Tenchim (てんちむ) is a 27-year-old Chinese-Japanese tarento and model.

She has relaunched her career after more than a decade gracing people’s TV screens and magazine pages — and now she’s raising things up a sexy notch (or several).

This has come about due to a scandal in 2020 with “bust-boosting” products she endorsed on her popular YouTube channel, which turned out to be fake — since she had, in fact, has a boob job. She also admitted to taking marijuana on an overseas holiday.

With her income drying up, she started working last year as a hostess in a top Ginza club and as a pole dancer in a Roppongi club. She also didn’t disappear in this time, continuing to release regular YouTube videos that attracted tens of thousands of views.

But now she is making a full comeback into the mainstream. She has posed for a gravure spread that shows off her sexy body, including the fantastic tattoo on her back. The lingerie is just great. (For larger versions of the images, see our tumblr site.)

The gravure shoot was published in the weekly magazine FLASH but she is also releasing a photo book in May to cement her comeback.

Like top gradol Yuka Kuramochi, Tenchim likes games and for a time has a YouTube channel dedicated to introducing games.

As her career trajectory has shown, Tenchim also likes to strike a balance between a cute and “bad girl” image. It is well-known that she likes to smoke and drink. Her tattoos and latest shoot further cements this reputation.

Back when she was still using the name Tenka Hashimoto, she did a nude shoot with photographer Yuki Aoyama that was released by Kadokawa as a photo book in 2014. She was 19 when she did the shoot. She looks cute but we reckon she’s become much more alluring in the years since.