Naked Sushi (Nyotaimori 女体盛り)

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Umit Benan staged his Fall-Winter 2016 runway show around a naked tattooed woman covered in sushi. The models were street-cast tough guys in judo suits, shearling jackets, and elegantly cut overcoats. “My shows are always ironic,” Benan has said. “The men in my show are never perfect. I don’t like perfect.” Perhaps that sentiment is what makes Umit—the man, the clothes, the life—so **** cool. He doesn’t hide his inspirations, whether it’s dojo garb, cowboy gangs of the American West, or retro tennis badasses. His capacity to take familiar style tropes and flip them into something instantly cool, something you never thought you’d wear but suddenly need, is seemingly limitless.

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Don't play with your food?

Half-naked woman covered in sushi attacks man for getting too friendly with his chopsticks
BY ALEX LINDER IN NEWS ON MAY 30, 2017 9:30 PM



A video has gone viral on Chinese social media showing the moment that a half-naked woman covered in sushi attacked a man who she thought had been getting a bit too cozy with his chopsticks.
According to Sina News, the incident occurred at a restaurant in the always classy city of Taiyuan which featured a grand feast laid out on a series of tables, along with on one woman, who had more sushi than clothing covering her body.



In the clip, the model is seen sitting up and arguing with one male customer who she accused of having done something "unspeakable" with his chopsticks. She then pounces at him and gives him a shove before the clip ends.



Watch the video below:
https://www.facebook.com/shanghaiist...5801277816030/

Coming over from Japan, half-naked sushi girls have become a tried-and-true tactic for attracting crowds in China. In 2015, attendees at the 14th Shenyang International Car Exhibition were given the opportunity to tuck in to some free food atop one model while checking out the, uh, hardware underneath:
https://www.facebook.com/shanghaiist...3480458846030/

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Hahaha, this thread reminds me of the movie Bruno (Sasha Baron Cohen) there was a scene in which he used Mexicans (called them Mexican chair people) as furniture, he used one as a table and placed sushi on him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7l4cj3d4xY

I never knew that excised in real life, I really thought it was just a joke

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This is slightly OT as it's not sushi, it's curry rice. I suppose that's like nachos, only more Asian?

Tokyo police claim prostitution ring let customers eat curry rice off a naked woman’s body
Casey Baseel yesterday



Hungers carnal and culinary allegedly satisfied by group operating in capital’s Shibuya district.

Among the words you’re not likely to learn in Japanese class is nyotaimori. Literally meaning “served on a woman’s body,” nyotaimori generally refers to the practice of laying out morsels of sushi on the body of a naked woman.

Much like used panty vending machines, though, the prevalence of nyotaimori in Japan is often greatly exaggerated in foreign media. The vast majority of people in Japan have neither the desire nor opportunity to partake in a nyotaimori meal (though the practice served as the inspiration for one memorable lunch in our office).

However, the Tokyo metropolitan police say they’ve recently broken up a prostitution ring which offered, among other things, nyotaimori services. This group, though, which went by the name Scandal, didn’t use sushi for its nyotaimori meals, but instead covered the woman’s body with curry and rice, according to investigators.

Scandal also offered more mundane sexual services, such as dispatching call girls to customers’ hotel rooms. Primarily active in the Shibuya Ward of Tokyo, a total of eight alleged members of the group, including the 36-year-old man identified by the police as its leaders, have been arrested, with the police estimating Scandal’s activities as having brought in roughly 900 million yen (US$8.1 million) for the organization.

Police reports released so far don’t delve into the details of how exactly the nyotaimori curry rice was served and eaten. Placing pieces of sushi, with their flat, stable bases, on a human body is one thing, but curry rice is essentially shapeless, which is why it’s ordinarily served on plates with upturned rims or in bowls. It seems like pouring it over a woman’s body would cause it all to go sliding onto the table, and from there the floor, but if you’re the type of person who orders your food from prostitution rings, odds are your culinary choices aren’t dictated by practicality or cleanliness.

Source: Yahoo! News Japan/Nippon News Network via Otakomu
Top image: Gahag

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Nyotaimori Tokyo is taking this to a whole other level. When does it become art?

Hong Kong ‘naked sushi’ event cancelled after online backlash
Organisers of a controversial brunch featuring a half naked woman in a food-based cabaret have cancelled the performance after complaints about sexism and the objectification of women. The brunch will still be going on
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 17 October, 2017, 6:02pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 17 October, 2017, 6:01pm
Lauren James
lauren.james@scmp.com
http://twitter.com/Lauren_YP



Organisers of an upcoming Hong Kong brunch that was going to feature food presented on the partially clothed body of a female model have cancelled the event due to online accusations of objectification of women and sexism.
The three-hour buffet was going to feature entertainment from Nyotaimori Tokyo, a Japanese performance group founded by photographer Myu Chan that specialises in nyotaimori, or “female body arrangement”, a practice which is said to date back hundreds of years and involves sushi or sashimi being served on a woman’s body.
Fang Fang, the Central restaurant due to host the event, confirmed that the nyotaimori performance would no longer feature in Saturday’s event, organised in partnership with wine importer Vines and Terroirs. “Based on the feedback from our customers we have reconsidered this event,” the restaurant said in a statement. “We are a venue which wanted to host the show and … women being objectified is clearly not what we want to do.”



Valentin Maurel, co-founder of French wine importer Vines and Terroirs, had argued in response that Saturday’s planned Japanese Cabaret Brunch Party at Central restaurant Fang Fang was about “reviving old traditions in a modern way”.
Critics accused the organisers of sexism under the pretence of art, saying that serving food on the body of a female model promoted the objectification of women. Since Monday morning, there has been a growing number of angry comments on Facebook posts about the event. Organisers argued that the event channelled a “traditional experience” and was going to be performed by artists who “specialised in this specific art”.
Posting as Vines and Terroirs, Maurel insisted that it was an artistic event. “We are in 2017 and one should understand that art is controversial,” he wrote. “Would you be attacked [sic] any artist, photograph, sculptor or painter who take a nude or half nude human as subject?”
Commenter Elaine To wrote that defining a practice as artistic didn’t mean it wasn’t also objectifying. “The two are not mutually exclusive,” she wrote, adding: “There’s a distinction between nudity and sexual objectification. What’s being called out here is the latter … Just because it’s traditional doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good idea to revive it.”


The Japanese performance group Nyotaimori Tokyo’s upcoming show was cancelled.

“This is egregiously sexist. You are objectifying women,” wrote Facebook user Sai Pradhan on another thread. “You are planning to commodify women’s bodies under the guise of presenting a Japanese tradition without questioning the so-called tradition and in fact, promoting nothing but sexism. This needs to be shut down.”
Yesterday Fang Fang’s managing director Imran Khaleel said the restaurant had fielded several concerned inquiries, but he believed angry commentators had misunderstood the event. “There’s no nudity – she’ll be wearing a bikini and performing away from clients alongside a violinist and a DJ,” he said adding that while food was going to be arranged on the model, it wasn’t intended for consumption and that diners would eat from separate buffet tables.
Earlier promotional materials played up the alleged history and exoticism of the practice, without saying that performers and diners would be kept separate. Organisers later added a disclaimer which said: The nyotaimori will be for the show, buffet will be served as usual on regular tables.”


Images of the Japanese performance group Nyotaimori Tokyo

Photos provided by Nyotaimori Tokyo show models in suggestive poses adorned with non-traditional foods, such as fried eggs and slices of toast.
Vines and Terroirs has worked with Nyotaimori Tokyo before, hosting a smaller event last month at Mahka, a clothing shop in Sheung Wan, for about 20 people.
Maurel told the Post before the cancellation he was confused as to why his company’s nyotaimori event was gaining so much attention. “I can understand why people might be shocked,” he said. “Many people are overreacting right now … The woman is used as a subject for an artistic photograph.
It’s not a random model being hired to do something sketchy.”
The practice of displaying sushi on a woman’s body (nantaimori refers to the same practice with a male model) originated in Japan hundreds of years ago. It allegedly began as a celebration for samurai after victory in battle, but later became associated with organised crime in Japan, gaining attention in the West after being featured in films and on television shows, such as Sex and the City.
Founded in 2015, Nyotaimori Tokyo describes itself as “an exclusive service provider … [that] has taken this old Japanese practice one step further”, clarifying that “sexual services is not included at all [sic]”.


Images from Japanese performance group Nyotaimori Tokyo

A video from a previous Nyotaimori Tokyo event shows a cloaked Asian model with geisha make-up entering a candlelit room filled with seated guests. She throws off her robe and lies on a table wearing only nipple covers and thong underwear. Waiters begin placing large leaves, foliage and pieces of sushi upon her, before bowing and allowing the buffet to commence.
In Hong Kong, nyotaimori events are unusual, although not unheard of. Local business Hong Kong Stag offers a “naked sushi dinner”, where groups head to a private room in an undisclosed venue for one hour. “Naked sushi (kinky dining) includes a private room, semi-nude model for one hour, plus sushi for your entire group,” the website’s blurb reads. “The centre piece of this event is a semi-nude model with sushi draped across her (or his) body. Take turns eating sushi directly off of them! Add sake and a “Kill Bill” film to the backdrop and you have yourself one of Hong Kong’s sexiest dining options.”
In 2005, the Chinese government banned restaurants from serving food from the bodies of naked women, condemning it as unhygienic and a violation of common decency. However, restaurants have found ways around the law by using partially clothed models instead – as was the case in May this year when a woman employed to have sushi served from her body accused a customer of molesting her.
The unnamed woman, who was pictured covered in raw fish and rice rolls while wearing a crop top and shorts, said the male customer did “unspeakable” things to her while removing food from her body with chopsticks.

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Kanye West serves sushi on nude women’s bodies at 46th birthday party
By Francesca Bacardi June 12, 2023 | 10:25am

There’s something fishy about this.

Kanye West’s 46th birthday party featured plenty of bizarre antics — including the eyebrow-raising decision to serve sushi and sashimi on nude women’s bodies.

The disgraced Yeezy designer included the Japanese practice, called nyotaimori, at his soiree Saturday to the interest of the celebrity attendees, including his 9-year-old daughter, North.

Social media users, however, believed the act to be misogynistic.

“treating a human woman like a plate is kinda misogynistic big dog,” tweeted one person.


Kanye West’s 46th birthday bash featured nude women serving sushi on top of their bodies.
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The practice is called nyotaimori in Japan.
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“in what WORLD is treating women like objects for male consumption (literally) not misogyny?” argued another.

“wtf… he’s getting weirder and weirder each day 🤦🏻*♂️,” wrote a third.

Others joked that “Sex and the City” character Samantha Jones “did it first” in 2008 in the series’ first film.

Enlarge Imagekanye west walking with bianca censori who is walking in a condom-like outfit

At one point, North, who stuck out her tongue for the camera, was filmed skeptically grabbing a piece of raw fish — off a platter, not the aforementioned women — and attempting to feed West’s “wife,” Bianca Censori, who was not interested in the snack.

Earlier in the evening, West’s eldest child was photographed holding hands with Censori as they made their way into the “All of the Lights” rapper’s party. North followed in her father’s creative footsteps for the event, having decorated her face with fake blood and wearing his go-to rubber boots.

Other stars at West’s birthday bash were Chlöe Bailey, Ty Dolla $ign and Freddie Gibbs.

Ty shared a carousel of photos from the star-studded event in which West, dressed in a gray T-shirt and jeans, could be seen wearing an ear-to-ear grin on his face as he chatted with his famous friends.

“Big Motion mane ! Hbd to my brothers @kanyewest and @djfai 🖤🤞🏾,” the “Or Nah” rapper captioned the series.

The private party, which didn’t appear to include any Kardashian-Jenners following Ye’s divorce from Kim Kardashian, featured a minimalist, candlelit aesthetic.

There are more pix. I only copy&pasted the money shots...