is a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

fashion model A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Thoug ...

public figure A public figure is a person who has achieved notoriety, prominence or fame within a society, whether through achievement, luck, action, or in some cases through no purposeful action of their own, In the context of defamation actions (libel and s ...

and popular

fashion Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion in ...

blogger A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order s ...

. She is an official fashion blogger for JFW, which is an international fashion

exhibition An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within a cultural or educational setting such as a museum, art gallery, park, library, exhibition ...

, regularly organized by prominent Japanese fashion

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...

, Senken Shimbun.Satenstein, Liana(March 19, 201
"The Best Street Style from Tokyo Fashion Week"
Vogue Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2015Wake, Shinya (April 25, 201
"Cosmetics recreate a computer-enhanced 'big eye' look"
Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 16 July 2015"Fashion TV"
Fashion TV. Retrieved 16 July 2015エンタメ(April 26, 201
"これなんてご褒美!? 超会議で美人キックボクサーにお尻を蹴られてみた"
Kai-You Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2015 Yuri is also a model who has appeared on

television network A television network or television broadcaster is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations or multichannel video programming distributo ...

s, such as

Fashion TV FashionTV is an international fashion and lifestyle broadcasting television channel. Founded in France in 1997, by its Polish-born president Michel Adam Lisowski, FashionTV is a widely distributed satellite channels in the world with 31 satellit ...

and has been featured in such prominent publications as

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, Timeout Magazine and

Asahi Shimbun is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and ...

."Timeout Magazine"
Retrieved 16 July 2015画像出典(November 27, 201
"ワールド系モデル！次世代のkawaiiは中川友里デス"
Retrieved 16 July 2015

Early life

During her childhood, in

Kanazawa is the capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 466,029 in 203,271 households, and a population density of 990 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Overview Cityscape File:もてな ...

Ishikawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island. Ishikawa Prefecture has a population of 1,140,573 (31 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,186 km2 (1,616 sq mi). Ishikawa Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to ...

, Yuri studied

Japanese tea ceremony The Japanese tea ceremony (known as or ) is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of , powdered green tea, the procedure of which is called . While in the West it is known as "tea ceremony", it is se ...

flower arrangement Floral design or flower arrangement is the art of using plant materials and flowers to create an eye-catching and balanced composition or display. Evidence of refined floristry is found as far back as the culture of ancient Egypt. Professionally ...

, and

gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...

and enjoyed expressing herself, through these traditional Japanese arts. She had planned to begin

modeling A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin ''modulus'', a measure. Models c ...

work, after

high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

graduation, but her parents would not allow her to leave the prefecture, unless she attended

college A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering ...

. Yuri moved to

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

, to study, and began her successful modeling career in the final year of her college degree.Rocky (February 19, 201
"It Girl Tokyo – Yuri Nakagawa"
The Third Look Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2015(March 12, 201
"Yuri Nakagawa w/ lilLilly, Chocomoo & Fleamadonna in Harajuku"
Tokyo Fashion. Retrieved 21 October 2015"Ellegirl Magazine"
Retrieved 16 July 2015

In popular culture

In 2015, Yuri Nakagawa was featured in the novel ''Trueman Bradley - The Next Great Detective'', second novel in the Trueman Bradley series, by Alexei Maxim Russell. In the novel, the protagonist, who is a

private detective A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private investigators of ...

, and a

Japanophile Japanophilia is the philia of Japanese culture, people and history. In Japanese, the term for Japanophile is , with "" equivalent to the English prefix 'pro-' and "", meaning "Japan" (as in the word for Japan ). The term was first used as earl ...

, is obsessed with Yuri. He uses her

Instagram Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can ...

posts as a source of inspiration, to help him uncover the secret of ''resonance'', the lost art of instinctual

inference Inferences are steps in reasoning, moving from premises to logical consequences; etymologically, the word '' infer'' means to "carry forward". Inference is theoretically traditionally divided into deduction and induction, a distinction that in ...

, which he purports was one of the secret tactics of the famous detective,

Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...

."Livedoor News"
Retrieved 16 July 2015(March 16, 201
"Street of Shibuya, Tokyo"
Fashion Snap Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2015(October 20, 201
"Street of Shinjuku, Tokyo"
Fashion Snap Magazine. Retrieved 26 October 2015

References

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