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Shinjuku woman, by the late Fuji Keiko

August 23, 2013Public spaceenka, Fuji Keiko, Hikaru Utada, jazzy, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku woman, suicidetokyo moe Leave a comment

I like the mix of enka singing and jazzy brass. Fuji-san, mother of singer Hikaru Utada committed suicide in Nishi Shinjuku this week.

Melting older ladies’ hearts is enka heart-throb Hikawa Kiyoshi

January 9, 2011fetish, male fashion, Public spaceArabian, ballad, belly, dancer, elderly, enka, entertain, gay, growing, gyrate, hearththrob, Hikawa Kiyoshi, lady, melt, Moe, older, over, population, rainbow, sexed, willing, youth, 氷川きよし, 演歌tokyo moe View all 5 comments

I discovered enka heart-throb Hikawa Kiyoshi (氷川きよし) on the New Year’s Eve Kouhaku show. He did a big enka ballad in an over-sexed Arabian Nights production with gyrating belly-dancers. I love how in this image above he’s in front of a (very not gay) rainbow. It’s good to see that some youths are willing to entertain the nation’s growing population of elderly.

Amazing portraits of male hosts

March 27, 2010fetish, male fashion, menenka, festive, gyaruo, host club, kimono, Kimutaku, male host, Moe, Numata Manabu, Visual Keitokyo moe View all 4 comments

CNNGo has a fun interview with Numata Manabu, a Tokyo photographer who has been creating commercial and artistic images of male hosts for five years. I love these group portraits. Numata-san wants the viewer to see the hosts as individuals, and believes that many are smart and hard-working.

Numata-san also describes a progression in male hosts’ visual style, from old-school enka, to Kimutaku look-alikes, other popular Johnny’s boys, gyaruo and visual-kei. I think the kimono look is extra-festive!