Kozue Akimoto

Kozue Akimoto was born in 1987 into one of the longest shadows in Japan: her father was the yokozuna Chiyonofuji, who died in 2016. She did not build a career on that name. She built it on runways abroad, in rooms where nobody was thinking about sumo. At 165cm she is not tall by industry standards, yet she photographs enormous - the long eyes, the hard architecture of the face. What I respect most is that she never sanded those features down into something more conventionally Western-friendly. She works as a Japanese face on international terms, and that is the harder win.

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Name (English)

Kozue Akimoto

Name (Japanese)

秋元梢

Reading

あきもと こずえ

Born

July 27, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

165 cm

Occupation

fashion model / model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

Blood type

A

Measurements

80 / 60 / 86

Agency

レプロエンタテインメント

University

Tokai University

Spouse

松田翔太

Works summary

Appearances

17 (2009–2015)

By year

2009: 2, 2011: 2, 2012: 1, 2013: 1, 2014: 2, 2015: 4

Debut work

The Hills

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://www.lespros.co.jp/models/kozue_akimoto/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/akimoto_kozue/
• Xhttps://x.com/Akimoto_Kozue
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozue%20Akimoto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%8B%E5%85%83%E6%A2%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11594851

Tags

• Tokyo
• fashion model
• model

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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