LOOK: Model Numeru Namada and Octopus in Odd Photos

Japanese model Numeru Namada has recently figured in various Japanese and other Asian news websites for posing provocatively with a live octopus before photographer Kazan Yamamoto. Here’s what we know about the pictorial:

1. The octopus in the photos you see here was from the North Pacific. Yes, it was alive at the time of this pictorial.

2. The pictorial was quite a challenge for Numeru Namada, who told  TokyoGirlsUpdate.com (TGU) that the octopus was “so heavy.” She tried to shower off the slime from the sea creature in between photo sessions, but she had to bear with it until the pictorial was over. “It shot out ink, too!” The model told TGU.

3. Namada also posed with the octopus one last time after it was boiled. She wore it as a head accessory for the animal’s posthumous time on camera. TGU quoted Namada as saying, “I discovered that wearing it on my head after boiling it looked really cute.”

【活タコと絡むナマダの写真展】 ▶︎NUMERU NAMADA ▷ぬめなま展 ▶︎9/10土9/11日 12〜21時 ▷池袋 Gallery O ▶︎撮影 山本華漸 /モデル ナマダ #portrait #fashion #model #cosplaygirl #cosplayer #instagramjapan

A photo posted by ナマダ (@namada00) on Sep 3, 2016 at 7:12am PDT

4. Facebook reported about a hundred people went to see these photos and more at Namada and Yamamoto’s exhibit from Sept. 10 to Sept. 11 at Gallery-O in Tokyo, Japan.

【活タコと絡むナマダの写真展】 ▶︎NUMERU NAMADA ▷ぬめなま展 ▶︎9/10土9/11日 12〜21時 ▷池袋 Gallery O ▶︎https://m.facebook.com/events/528187164054812/ 両日在廊します〜( ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ

A photo posted by ナマダ (@namada00) on Sep 9, 2016 at 4:59am PDT

5. In its report about Namada, Mothership.sg points out that it’s possible in Japan for cosplayers like Namada to earn about US$9,000 for gigs.

What do you think about this project by model Numeru Namada and photographer Kazan Yamamoto?