Oregon-Senshu Fall '97:
Mystery Photo from the U.S.



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Name: Tok Iwabuchi
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: tiwabuchi@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: This picture reminds me of a story written about 1,000 years ago. It is about a young girl aristocrat who loved insects very much, but she loved only cute ones.
Comments: I can see a sharp contrast between the beauty of the young (?) girl and the ugliness of the insects. Probably her job has nothing to do with insects. I can't imagine myself doing this because I am scared of these grotesque insects.

Name: Nobuyuki Kawasaki
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: c080550@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: I don't know what she is doing. Maybe she is a queen of the insects which disguises human being.
Comments: I don't want to see this picture any longer, because I hate insects very much.

Name: Tatsuya Tomoda
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: h080024@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: 3.What do I have on me? -> Insects 2.What is my job? -> A public officer who has some problems
Comments: Maybe,I can. If I have any frustrations, as one solution of it, this "Relaxation with insects" may be an effective one.

Name: Mutsumi Takahashi
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: c070414@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: You have insects and your job maybe relates to natural science.
Comments: I think all of the insects are not real. Maybe it is specimens of insects or anything. If these are specimens of insects, I can do this. I like insects without moth.

Name: Toshimitsu Asakura
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: w080002@gkk.sensh-u.ac.jp
Answers: It's may be a grasshopper, a beatle, a dragonfly.
Comments: She love insect. So, she keeps them in her room. By the way, I don't know the insect that is on her right hand. I don't like it. What is this name?

Name: Yoichi Mizushima
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: c080353@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: She put on insects but these insects are imitation I think. She is one of Greenpeace member.
Comments: She loves nature. Especially she loves insects. Although I can feel her feeling, I can not put on these insects. I imagine she share her feelings with these insects.

Name: Tomonori Yoshikawa
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: w080097@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: a dragonfly,a grasshopper,a beatle,a roach,a mantis
Comments: This is grotesque photo. I dislike an insect. she is crazy.

Name: Rie Hashino
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: m080796@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: ornament, person who makes ornament
Comments: I don't like these ugly bugs. But when I saw the close-up of this picture,I can't see these bugs being alive, so I think these are ornament.

Name: Takashi Koide
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: m080284@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: You have 5 insects you do not want to touch. You work at the insect section of the zoo.
Comments: It is so amazing that many people tend to dislike ugly looking insects as you get older. When you were young, everyone has touched and played with those insects at least once. I am one of those people. I had garden in my house and used to catch frogs, grasshopper, beatles and many other insects. By the way, I wonder these insects are fake and she has them as her accessories.

Name: Yoshie Takei
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: le080165@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: She has insects on her. I think her job is a model , artist or owner of a pet shop.
Comments: No! Never! I hate insects. when I was a child. My friend put tiny frog on my shoulder. And I was almost lose my conscious! So it's impossible for me to put insects on me and to be cool.

Name: Yasuyuki Shoji
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: e080338@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp,yasu@pop06.odn.ne.jp
Answers: I think she has some insects on her. I think her job is biologist.
Comments: I cannot imagine myself doing this, because I don't like them now. But in my childhood, I liked them. I sometimes caught many kind of insects and play with them.

Name: Mikitake Hirai
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: w080222@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: May be It's a wedding ceremony.When she overcome this,she will be happy.
Comments: I don't want to see this picture any more. If I must overcome this ceremony when I marry,I couldn't be happy .I will escape.

Name: Fumiko Takei
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: c080111@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: Big insects.But it's accessory,broach.
Comments: I don't like discrimination.but it's unbearable except a dragonfly. I want to say "I'm afraid,but leave me alone."American insects are all big. This woman is sleeping now. So she can bear,maybe.I used to catch insects. But now I can't.

Name: Mirai Matsuki
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: w080175@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: She is a crazy entomoiogist or archeoiogist. The insects which are revived by her had lived in the very old days.
Comments: I don't like insects because they are weird and some of them sometime injury us. She is crazy, but she is authoritative entomologist.She lives with them everyday."Unbelievable".

Name: Tatsuya Moriwaki
Date: Nov 04 1997
Email: w080180@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: I think these are latest accessories. Her job is making these accessories.
Comments: I can't understand her mind. I can't do like that.

Name: Atsuko Hamazaki
Date: Nov 05 1997
Email: w090145@isc.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: I don't know 5 insects is real things or accesaries. But if this is real things, I may shudder. I think she studies about insects or very likes insects
Comments: I don't see this picture for long times. When I see this picture the first, I feel unpleasant. I don't like insects. I want to know what she is doing at once.

Name: Tok Iwabuchi
Date: Nov 05 1997
Email: tiwabuchi@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: The woman is a photo model, and the photographer is an artist, so this is an artistic photograph.
Comments: I think these insects are real. The artist photographer wanted to use real insects because, if these insects were artificial, he or she wouldn't be able to have the woman's real feelings in the photograph.

Name: Kyoko Kuroda
Date: Nov 05 1997
Email: fwgi0522@mb.infoweb.or.jp
Answers: The girl on photo loves Nawsica, so she want tobe like her, and she is training to make friends with all insects.
Comments: I don't mind most of insects to see, but I can't stand if insects are stop to my body. Especially cockroach. I don't like to think if that woman were I. If there insects were animal I ok.

Name: Kyle Watt
Date: Nov 05 1997
Email: kwatt@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Answers: If she likes insects enough to have them on her, she must be some sort of entomologist.
Comments: There is no way I would like to have that many bugs on me! This reminds me of the second Indiana Jones movie where Harrison Ford goes through a cave filled with large insects. I would have to be paid a large sum of money to do what she is doing.

Name: Bryce Ward
Date: Nov 07 1997
Email: brward@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Answers: Some very large insects! Either you worked on props for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, or you are one of those people who study insects whose name escapes me at the moment.
Comments: Absolutely not! I do not like bugs! Whenever I feel a strange itch I automatically assume its a bug and start flailing around trying to rid myself of the creepy critters.

Name: Holly Chang
Date: Nov 07 1997
Email: hollyc@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Answers: The woman has very huge insects on her and her job maybe is working with different unknown insect species.
Comments: No way!! I hate insects!!. It is so bad that I loose my appetite if I am eating and I see an insect either on the television or outside. I am sure they are nice, but I do not like them at all. It also reminds me of those gross bugs in Indiana Jones as well...Yucky!

Name: cory gill
Date: Nov 07 1997
Email: corygill@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Answers: you've got a whole bunch of bugs on you but I cann't image what your job would be.
Comments: This is gross! I cannot image doing that to myself. I am not to afraid of bugs, but those are really huge

Name: Hoyt Long
Date: Nov 07 1997
Email: dgcfan@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Answers: I think she has jungle insects all over her. Her job is obviously to determine the likelihood of insects living with people in the future.
Comments: No, I don't think I could do this with such calmness and be able to keep a smile on my face. Especially not with a big cockroach crawling down my wrist. Yikes!

Name: Yoshitaka Nakamura
Date: Nov 07 1997
Email: e090058@isc.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: She has accessories of insect on her. Her job is artist of using insect.
Comments: Maybe No I can't. Because I don't like insect very much.

Name: nicole kuwahara
Date: Nov 11 1997
Email: nykki@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Answers: She has some pretty gross insects on her - which might be fake, but it might also be real. I think she's just a model that shows people that insects are harmless.
Comments: No, I could not see myself doing this... way too gross!!!

Name: Ai Mori
Date: Nov 11 1997
Email: w080170@gkk.senshu-u.ac.jp
Answers: This picture looks like anything poster. She have a many insect . But, I thinkthese are model or a accessorizes. And she is a biologist or an activist aboutprotecting environment. May be she appeal that there is no need to afraid insects. B ecause re
Comments: If these insects is real, I cannot this!! But it may be interesting putting on accessories of insect for fashion. Though it is not good sense.

Name: Norio Sanbonamtsu
Date: Nov 13 1997
Email: kouki@kt.rim.or.jp
Answers: Maybe they are insects. And I think her job is a model for jewel.
Comments: I don't like any insects. So if I were she, I'll get stunned. But if it is an advertisement, I think it's very interesting advertisement. I think everybody see and surprise this advertisement. But are they real insects? If it is real,they'll keep moving on her face and body. I son't want imagine that situation. Oh no!!

ANSWER:
This woman is an entomologist with Smithsonian. Read more about her and the live (yes, live!) insects she is wearing if you are interested.