Keep An Eye Shut

Hanayo’s journey with photography began in middle school, where she was a part of the photography club. Starting in 1989, she began to photograph various happenings she experienced and people she met with an old camera that her father handed down to her. In high school, she created a zine with her friends entitled Joshikosei Tsuushin (High School Girl Times), and later made her world debut as a model for the Tongarikidz section of the subculture magazine Takarajima. She began her ascent to greater fame at nineteen: later beginning to appear in Japanese television programs, theater productions, and eventually decorating the cover of British magazine The Face