Will Nobuyoshi Araki Be Photography’s Last Legendary Dirty Old Man? (NSFW)

NEW YORK ― Of the hundreds of explicit pieces by the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki currently on display at the Museum of Sex, only one work ― 1985′s “Tokyo Lucky Hole” ― was deemed too vulgar to make it through Japanese customs on its way to New York earlier this year.

“Tokyo Lucky Hole” captures a raucous moment at a Japanese sex club of the same name, where a crowd is watching a young woman ― her legs spread in a position yogis call “happy baby,” her crotch fully exposed ― let loose an arc of urine into an open umbrella held by an excited bystander. Araki himself is in the frame, gripping the woman’s legs as she relieves herself.

According to curators Maggie Mustard and Mark Snyder, Japanese customs agents singled out the image as too “obscene,” removing it from a MoSex-bound shipment. The print was subsequently returned to its owner, Tokyo’s Taka Ishii Gallery, and the museum was forced to borrow another print of the image from a different source.

That officials raised objections in the first place was hardly surprising. As Snyder told HuffPost, “Araki’s work has been in similar circumstances before.”













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