Takao Sakai. For this, I created a fictitious story about a recent trend among young Japanese to make adzuki bean beards: Much like tattoos or earrings before, they were first used as good luck charms or talismans to ward off evil. But then they gave birth to adzuki bean idols, and because of their influence it went so far to become a casual fashion worn in everyday life. Then foreign media began introducing the fad to people overseas as an extension of otaku and anime youth culture, thus spreading adzuki fashion around the world. Now, I am making these portraits to illustrate that fictional story. If some media outside of Japan would mistakenly think that this is really fashion and would report it as news, then I would have succeeded.
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Written by Verena Translated by Kevin Mcgue. (2009). Takao Sakai’s Bean Love. Available: http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/07/takao-sakais-bean-love/. Last accessed 2013.
Unknown. (2008). Takao Sakai's adzuki art. Available: http://www.japanator.com/takao-sakai-s-adzuki-art-7131.phtml. Last accessed 2013.
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