Santa Fe Rie Miyazawa Photo By Kishin Shinoyama 1991 72 [ INSTANT • HANDBOOK ]

The central, uncomfortable fact remains: Rie Miyazawa was 17 years old. Legally, the age of consent in Japan was (and remains) 13 at the federal level, though prefectural laws restricted "obscene" acts with minors. But the moral question is separate from the legal one. Santa Fe landed in a nation that had built a billion-dollar industry on the "sexy schoolgirl" ( kogal ) archetype, yet maintained a public facade of conservatism.

Shinoyama compared the shoot to his famous Lennon/Ono photos: "When you remove clothes, you also remove role. You see the animal soul." Santa Fe Rie Miyazawa Photo By Kishin Shinoyama 1991 72

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