I am also a lecturer and daughter of an old samurai family. I view my modelling as another way to promote my heritage and present authentic Japanese culture in an accessible and enjoyable manner. However, I am happy to explore other artistic ideas and have a good sense of humour, so please contact me if you think that we could create beautiful and intelligent art together.

I am a member of the Register of Artists' Models (RAM#1320) and regularly model for the London College of Fashion, as well as other art schools and private drawing classes in London and SE England.

I am a photographic model, as well as life and figure model, nude and clothed in kimonos from my collection.

I have been involved with modelling since the 1980s, when I was the face and voice of the Japanese wine industry, before doing a similar photographic and live spokes-model role for the promotion of Australian wine and cheese in Japan.

I am a member of Equity and regularly perform traditional Japanese arts, such as the tea ceremony and calligraphy on stage and for film and television.

I really enjoy life modelling for painters, as it not only allows the model to be part of the process of making a beautiful and original piece of art, it also has a therapeutic benefit, too. It is a very positive experience to be posed and studied is great detail in an atmosphere that is calming yet vibrant with creative energy. The discipline of remaining in a pose for the required time, followed by the imaginative and collaborative exercise of thinking up the next position is also excellent physical and mental activity. I am equally happy being a photographic model for art nude images. It requires a different interplay between model and artist than that of life modelling for painters, so it is good to experience both activities interchangeably.

There is something honest and refreshing about nude modelling. It allows, in fact demands, a woman to display her body in a way that is not normally acceptable in society, especially in comparison to the conservative academic environment in which I work as a lecturer of Japanese culture. With a number of female anthropologists, artists and educators, I am trying to promote a wide ranging public dialogue on the participation and depiction of women in art. Recently, there have been several cases of female teachers who have been suspended from their jobs for the "offence" of being pictured topless or nude in artwork, academic articles and even during private recreation. Through sensible discussion and the presentation of all the positive aspects of women in art, we wish to change the attitude of education authorities, the print and broadcast media and the general public. That is a further reason why your new site is so well timed, as it creates another respectable and well presented conduit for positive words and imagery.

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