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.

Name (English)

Kozue Akimoto

Name (Japanese)

秋元梢

Born

July 27, 1987 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

165 cm

Occupation

fashion model / model

University

Tokai University

Motto

Private

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

Tags

• Tokyo
• fashion model
• model

Last updated

2026-07-26

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