An entry with fragments about the eroticization of the underarm (Tsuchida Bakusen's downblouse, the "armpit queen" of gravure, Yu Dafu groping scenes, a story about getting my nose broken...)

▣ In a Tsuchida Bakusen painting of 1911, the model is posed, fixing her hair, so that her underarms are visible.¹ On a Weekly Playboy cover of 2016, Mogami Moga is posed, fixing her hair, so that her underarms are visible.² The wide sleeve, in the time of Tsuchida Bakusen, was how one would glimpse the bosom; the underarm, concealed, usually, still, and …