Rokudenashiko, a 42-year-old cartoonist from Japan was arrested this summer for distributing 3-D printable data of her vagina. Now she’s in trouble with the law again, this time for an “obscene” art display of whimsical sculptures at a store in Tokyo. The store owner was arrested, too.
Her lawyers are demanding that Igarashi be released, but the court refused to grant the application.
Presiding Judge Noriki Ando based his decision on a “fear she may destroy evidence or flee.”
In response, Igarashi said, “I pledge that I will absolutely not destroy evidence or flee.”
Here’s a profile of Rokudenashiko, showing how she makes her “vagina sculptures.”
And here she describes her (successful) plan to make a “pussy kayak”:
It is absolutely ridiculous that the Japanese government is keeping her in jail for her cute and funny art.
Detained manga artist denies work modeled on her vagina is obscene