‘eat me’ – shojonotomo
A close-up of a T-shirt with lips by Japanese artist, SHOJO NO TOMO, via her blog.
SHOJO NO TOMO always put her essence of her own story in them when she makes her pieces of works…when she designed Porno prints for clothing (in Spring and Summer 2001, she drew fictitious juvenile delinquent...more...
Although Japanese artist Shojo-No-Tomo claims to, “have no interests in illustrations (needless to say …interests toward art!)” she does question, “To where should her impulse to show her dramas to those who be thrown?”
Huh? Something didn’t make through translation.
See her online store pornoinvaders.com for more information and to purchase online (Japanese and some English).
The artist’s name comes from a Japanese magazine Shojo-no-Tomo (少女の友) that was published from 1931 to 1945. In the 1930s, Shojo-no-Tomo was more than a magazine—it was a social movement that organized a “girls network” among their readership who interacted regular readers’ parties and through their writings in the magazine’s columns. The readers were:
united under the concept of girlishness,
especially pureness, and for a concrete
thirst for culture and arts.
This girlishness, with its “purity,”
was constructed in opposition
to the “dirty adults.”
Original “girlie” Shojo-no-Tomo magazine, late 1930s
Shojo-no-Tomo magazine, grim final years – 1940s
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August 27th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
I noticed that in your link those last two magazine covers are better explained:
>However, from the end of the 1930s,
>in the midst of the war,
>editors and the surrounding adults started
>to condemn “girlishness,”
>and in response, the girls themselves
>changed their image to one of “Japanese girls”
>who served the country with patriotism.