Saila Kunikida, great-great-granddaughter of author and poet Doppo Kunikida, will make her debut as a model under the Bon Image modeling agency.
Doppo Kunikida was a Japanese author of novels and romantic poetry during the Meiji period, noted as one of the inventors of Japanese naturalism, a literary movement that used detail realism to suggest social conditions. He lived a relatively short life and died in 1908 at 36 years of age.