Donation from Osada Steve

In the Fall of 2014, I received a letter from Osada Steve, in which he generously offered me a donation of Kinbaku-material.

He wrote: ”You have an amazing collection (…) I am in the process of cleaning up my office and keep digging up stuff that I didn’t know I had. (…) They are too good to disappear in the abyss, so I’m trying to find a good home for them. I also keep running into back issues of my little FetishJapan mag. I think if you have the complete collection they will be in much better hands than being scattered around here. If you like, I will keep sending these to you as they come up (…) Most of the ”books” are run-off-the-mill kinbaku porn that I have assembled over the past 30+ years, but there is a gem here and there that will complement your serious collection – I hope. (…) It is great that you collect, archive and share – it is a great service to the community. Please feel free to use any way you wish. I fully trust your judgment. (…) I hope there is something of value in it for your research endeavors.”

In the end, the donation was even greater than my expectations: Three large boxes full of books, magazines, movies on VHS and DVD, the FetishJapan mag, flyers – and more. All in all 45 kg of material.

My plan is to approach this material piecemeal, making individual posts for the different publications, marking them ”OS” to show their provenance. On the blog, I have so far only posted about printed material, excluding the DVDs etc in my collection. I will probably make some exceptions from this general principle when I begin present the material from these boxes the next few weeks.

For now, just let me say: Thank you Steve-san