{"id":6989,"date":"2014-07-17T18:11:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T09:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2017-03-23T08:27:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T12:27:23","slug":"vagina-selfie-for-3d-printers-lands-japanese-artist-rokudenashiko-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/vagina-selfie-for-3d-printers-lands-japanese-artist-rokudenashiko-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Vagina selfie for 3D printers lands Japanese artist, Rokudenashiko in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"

We wrote about Megumi Igarasashi, AKA Rokudenashiko on our blog at the Japanese Pussy Club<\/strong><\/a> in September 2013.<\/p>\n

Many people in Japan are outraged that police would bother with such a case and arrest an artist who is harming no one. Why don’t the police go after all the credit card scammers who rip off old people or pedophiles who prey on children at their schools? Instead they decide to make a point with Megumi Igarashi. One can only assume Megumi, AKA Rokudenashiko is not paying off public officials to look the other way, something that is common here in Japan.<\/p>\n

Sign this petition today to FREE ROKUDENASHIKO @ Change.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Megumi Igarashi and the vagina kayak she had made. Photograph: \/Megumi Igarashi<\/p>\n

Megumi Igarashi, aka Rokudenashiko, arrested for emailing digital template of her genitalia to supporters of her art. We are talking a handful of patrons who support Ms. Igarashi’s art who contributed to her funding request to make the digital images.<\/p>\n

Ms. Igarashi has long been a fighter for women’s rights and women’s sexual freedom in Japan. A country dominated by males in every aspect of politics and government. Read more from Justin McCurry’s article below.<\/p>\n

KAM
\nKabukicho News<\/p>\n

Justin McCurry in Tokyo
\ntheguardian.com,

Last month it took more than 20 firefighters to free a US student who had become trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina<\/a> in Germany. But genital art elicited a very different response in Japan this week, when police arrested an artist for distributing data that enables recipients to make 3D prints of her vagina.<\/p>\n

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The artist, who works under the pseudonym Rokudenashiko \u2013 which roughly translates as \u201cgood-for-nothing girl\u201d \u2013 was arrested after emailing the data to 30 people who had answered a crowd-funding request<\/a> for her recent artistic venture: a kayak inspired on her own genitalia she calls \u201cpussy boat\u201d<\/a>, according to Brian Ashcraft<\/a> at the gaming website Kotaku<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The artist, whose real name is Megumi Igarashi, was held in custody in Tokyo on suspicion of breaking Japanese obscenity laws. Media reports said Igarashi, 42, denied the allegations<\/a>. She pointed out that had not sent images of her vagina in return for money and did not recognise the scanned 3D data as obscene.<\/p>\n

Kyodo quoted unnamed police sources as saying Igarashi had collected about 1m yen in exchange for the data.<\/p>\n

While Igarashi’s art has a fun-loving and cheeky theme, her situation is serious as far as the law is concerned: if convicted she could receive up to two years in jail or a fine of as much as 2.5 million yen (\u00a314,300\/US$24,500), according to her lawyer.<\/p>\n

Commentators have pointed out the hypocrisy of her arrest, which comes soon after Japanese authorities resisted pressure to ban pornographic images of children in manga comics and animated films<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The activist Minori Kitahara said police raided Igarashi’s office and seized 20 of her artworks. “Japan is still a society where those who try to express women’s sexuality are suppressed, while men’s sexuality is overly tolerated,” she said.<\/p>\n

Igarashi has made a name for herself with her Decoman \u201cDecorated Vagina\u201d series of sculptures<\/a>. The titles of the works incorporate the word \u201cman\u201d, from manko, the Japanese for vagina. Igarashi said she was once asked not to use the word Decoman during a TV appearance.<\/p>\n

Because female genitalia were \u201coverly hidden\u201d in Japanese society, \u201cI did not know what a pussy should look like<\/a>,\u201d she said in an online post. \u201cI thought it was just funny to decorate my [moulded] pussy and make it a diorama, but I was very surprised to see how people get upset to see my works or even to hear me say manko.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the works, described as a \u201cvaginal battle scene\u201d, shows a group of toy soldiers taking cover in an unmistakeably pudic crevice; another diorama titled Fukushiman \u2013 a \u201ctaboo on top of taboo\u201d \u2013 shows workers at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant<\/a> in similar surroundings.<\/p>\n

She has also designed iPhone covers and recently posted an image of Gundaman, a figurine based on the popular anime character Gundam, sporting an oversized vagina<\/a>, according to the Japanese art and design website Spoon & Tamago.<\/p>\n

Igarashi has said she is on a mission to \u201cdemystify\u201d female genitalia in Japan, a country where thousands flock to an officially sanctioned annual penis festival<\/a> in Kawasaki every April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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