It¡¯s surprising to see emamouse without their signature mask. The Tokyo artist never or without the handmade felt headwear, which features green hair with a single blue fish. Yet here it is, in emamouse¡¯s hands inside a Shinjuku Showa Era cafe.
¡°Early on, it felt dizzying to perform wearing this,¡± emamouse tells The Japan Times. But after making holes in the side for their hair to come out of, the artist says, ¡°now it¡¯s a lot less suffocating.¡±
Emamouse, who asks not to share their name due to work-related matters, among other reasons, says they feel 40 percent of themselves is female and doesn¡¯t mind ¡°she,¡± but that ¡°they¡± as a pronoun feels better.
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