Urado Hiroshi: IMAGE No.2 (”Playmate MM 1”)

Probably from around 1978. Rope: Urado Hiroshi. Model: Mayumi Miyata (宮田　真由美)

See an earlier post about Image No 1, here:

https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/urado-hiroshi-image-no-1/

Publisher: エドプロダクツ

Both Image nos 1 and 2 are photo-publications, but they each also contain short editorial texts by Urado Hiroshi. Below, you can find them in translation.

Translation: Shiba. Commissioned and edited by Bergborg / KinbakuBooks.

Urado Hiroshi: Editor’s postscript to Image no.1

Maybe Image (”The Beauty of Kimono and Black Hair”) is a somewhat too pompous name for a graphic magazine. It is the replacement for The Beacon, which we have been publishing until now. In this first issue of Image, we included photos which I tied and photographed about eight years ago, and also some special photos taken recently. Since some of the old ones have been published before, I am afraid I might be scolded, you saying “what, such thing…” But the situation eight years ago from today was different, there were just two or three SM-magazines and the photos were relatively mild. The images are marked by my own preconceptions in such situation. Because of that, it feels like they were not as good as they could have been, as I see it now, but my basic favorite kinbaku, with women in kimono and long black hair, this fondness hasn’t been changed until today. Anyway, this graphic magazine called Image is planned to be published every month, like its sister-magazine Sun & Moon. I ask for your opinions and requests for the magazine, for example if the size of the publication is right, as your view would be help us in planning further issues. Of course, the project is not just a separate volume of Sun & Moon, it is designed as a graphic magazine in itself (we are considering the possibility also of releasing special issues of Sun & Moon separately).

Urado Hiroshi: Editor’s postscript to Image no.2

After Image no.1 (”The Beauty of Kimono and Black Hair”), now follows Image no.2 (”Playmate MM 1”). For this issue, we chose Mayumi Miyata. I tied her in different ways I like, and tormented her for about four hours. You probably see how her facial expressions change if you view the pictures in the right order. I had tied her once before and from my impression of her body and the atmosphere she has around her, I strongly felt that she could be a playmate M-girl who could give us great satisfaction and live up to all expectations if we tried a photo-shooting with her. So, we chose her as a model for Image no.2. She indeed did not make us disappointed, and the photos turned out to good. As we have already stated in the May issue of the magazine Sun & Moon, we will continue making photos with her circa once a month, and we believe that it this will find approval by our readers. We would be glad to receive your opinions or thoughts on Image, both the current, no.2 and the previous, no.1.