is a Japanese gravure idol (glamour model), who has been particularly known in the cosplay

Cosplay

, short for "costume play", is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and science fiction...

 scene.

Early life

Fujiwara was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido

Sapporo, Hokkaido

is the fourth-largest city in Japan by population, and the largest city on the island of Hokkaido. It is the capital of Hokkaidō Prefecture, located in Ishikari Subprefecture, and an ordinance-designated city of Japan....

, and after graduating from high school, she moved to Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

, beginning gravure modeling while working at a maid cafe

Maid cafe

Maid cafés are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan. In these cafés, waitresses dressed in maid costumes act as servants, and treat customers as masters in a private home, rather than as café patrons...

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Modeling

She released her first solo DVD, *Debut Fujiwara Natsuki, in April 2008. She has appeared on several magazines as a gravure idol, including Weekly Spa!, Sabra

Sabra (magazine)

Magazine is published by Shogakukan. It features beautiful Japanese models and articles geared toward young men. Sabra Magazine is equivalent to Maxim, FHM, and Stuff in the United States. Although the magazine focused on gravure models , it also offers variety of news such as showbiz...

, Best Video, and numerous television shows such as the ones on NTV, TV Tokyo

TV Tokyo

is a television station headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Also known as , a blend of "terebi" and "Tokyo", it is the key station of TX Network. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime...

, NHK

NHK

NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....

, Chiba TV

Chiba TV

, doing business as , is a Japanese commercial terrestrial television broadcasting company headquartered at 11-25 Miyako-chō 1-chōme, Chūō-ku, Chiba serving Chiba Prefecture but spill-over is received in the neibouring prefectures. It is a member of the Japanese Association of Independent...

, and SKY PerfecTV!

SKY PerfecTV!

SKY PerfecTV! is a direct broadcast satellite service that provides satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services to households in Japan, owned by parent company SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation....

. She has appeared on two music videos for professional wrestler / politician Atsushi Onita

Atsushi Onita

Atsushi Onita is a Japanese former politician and active professional wrestler best known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling...

 and former porn actress Nao Oikawa

Nao Oikawa

born April 21, 1981 in Hiroshima, Japan is a Japanese actress, TV Personality and was also a former AV idol who was very popular in early 2000s.- Life and career :...

. She has also modeled for several costume brands such as Emily and Good Luck.

Personal life

Fujiwara is an out

Coming out

Coming out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity....

 lesbian

Lesbian

Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

. She publicly acknowledged her homosexuality in August 2009, as she identified herself as "pure [absolute] lesbian, not bisexual or something like that". She stated that she clearly realized her homosexuality when she was a high school girl, and first dated a woman after graduating from high school. She was 2009's second gravure idol to come out as lesbian publicly, after Ayaka Ichinose's coming out. She has further revealed that she enjoys to read yuri dojin

Dojin

, often romanized as doujin, is a general Japanese term for a group of people or friends who share an interest, activity, hobbies, or achievement...

 manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

s and watch lesbian porn videos, and is familiar with many AV idol

AV Idol

An AV idol is a Japanese idol who works in the pornographic business, often both as an actress as well as a model as the video performances have a wide range, from just the idol strolling around their house doing chores in bikinis to hardcore porn...

s.

External

• Official profile by the Next Promotion agency
• Official blog powered by Ameba