Nureki Chimuo: Kinbiken communications
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緊美研通信
Publisher: Million Mook
ISBN: 4-8130-0348-6
2000
Photo-book with CD-ROM
The CD-rom included in this book has 30 two-and-a-half-minute short snippets of scenes with Nureki tying. Low quality of the video, amazing quality of content.
The second volume has longer video-sequences, from the same kind of meetings, check it out here:
https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/nureki-chimou-and-naka-akira-kinbiken-communications/
SMマニア(2013) Special edition 1 and 2
SM Mania, special edition in two volumes (2013)
Celebrating 30 years of publication, the magazine SM Mania published these two special editions in 2013 with material from its early years, including generous sections with the photography of Sugiura Norio 1982–1987, and with illustrations by for example Ozuma, Muku Youji and Harukawa Namio.
Issue one: ISBN-13: 978-4865110210
Issue two: ISBN-13: 978-4865110869
Muku Youji: ”Nyotai kinbaku garo / kinbaku fotogyararyi” 1 and 2
I have very little information about these two black booklets. It seems clear that they are edited and published by Muku Youji (who also appears tying in some of the photos).
The double title 女体緊縛画廊 / 緊縛フォトギャラリィ (Nyotai kinbaku garō / kinbaku fotogyararyi ) is reflected in a division of each booklet into one section with sketches, and one section with photos. The white paper-snippets with the title however seems to be printed on a computer and pasted onto the black cover by a previous owner, so I am uncertain if this is a common reference.
As always, if any of the readers of this blog has any information, please do write a comment below, or contact me through Fetlife (kinbakubooks).
Muku Youji: Ochiai Ryuji shashin-shu 2
In his early years, Muku Youji published his work under the name Ochiai Ryuji. Among other things, he published two black booklets with kinbaku photographs in black and white, and his own sketches, called ”Ochiai Ryuji shashin-shu” 1 and 2. This is booklet 2: 落合竜二写真集Ⅱ
Very rare.
Have look on an earlier post about Muku Youji, now updated with a new link to some images that shows his modus operandi:
https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/muku-youji-cards/
Kitoh Akira (and others): 画集 秘婉 小妻容子 鬼頭暁 笠間しろう 前田寿按 SM (2011)
Art-book with kinbaku-sketches by multiple artists, including Kitoh Akira.
ISBN: 13-978-4861357657
Miyabi Kyodo: ”Gorgeous book of paintings”
鏡堂みやび豪華画集
A green slipcase with a hardbound book, the first one from Sanwa collecting the work of the artist Miyabi Kyodo.
Among its many strong images, the book also contains a homage to Miyabi Kyodos friend and mentor, Kita Reiko (AKA Minomura Kou), in the form of a ”repainting” of one of his works. The scan above is from the book, but generously provided by the artist himself in private communication.
I noted the difference in the text written on the two images, and wrote to the artist to ask about the meaning. He replied (English slightly emended):
”On the original painting by Kita Reiko, it is written: ”Daikan [the local sheriff] will take his time to make fun of Hizakura Oryu [a scarlet cherry blossom], and let everyone observe her carefully as he pleases.” The text in the ’re-painted’ picture is: ”This woman, named Hizakura Oryu, is a dice dealer. This bitch damaged the house by cheating the addicted gamblers. Anyone who suffered a loss may bully this brazen hussy.” And the text with Chinese characters in the upper right corner reads: ”In June 1999, Kyodo Miyabi respectfully re-painted the original by master Kita Reiko /Signature and seal/.””
Very rare, an edition limited to 150 copies.
Publisher: Sanwa, 2002
See also an earlier post on this blog, about Miyabi Kyodos most recent work:
https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/miyabi-kyodo/
SMセレクト
SM Select (1973)
This is a special issue of SM Select, a magazine with rope by masters as Kita Reiko (AKA Minomura Kou) and Nureki Chimuo, started in november 1970. It contains both illustrations and photos in black and white as well as in colour.
Four Japanese Hojojutsu-books
Fujita Seiko: ”Zukai Hojojutsu” (1964)
図解捕縄術
ISBN 978-4-8390-0297-8
This is without doubt the greatest and most important of the Hojojutsu-books. A hardbound red book in a yellow carton slipcase, 327 pages with beautiful images, cataloging all the different hojojutsu ties from the different schools. This is NOT a how-to book with step-by-step rendering. In a peculiar and to my mind very beautiful way, the ties are sometimes depicted with a person being tied, and next to it only the pattern of the rope, floating in the air.
Mizukosho Hiro: ”Shashin de oboeru Hojojutsu” (2005)
写真で覚える捕縄術
ISBN 978-4-7502-0282-2
This in contrast IS a how-to book, showing a number of hojojutsu ties in pictures step by step.
There is a newer edition, with a little bit better black-and-white separation of the images, but the newer edition is shorter, lacking almost 60 pages with many ties. The new edition (2013) has ISBN 978-4-7502-0331-7
Kazuhiko Itatsu: ”Yoriki, doshin, jitte torinawa” (1992)
与力・同心・十手捕縄
ISBN: 4-404-01942-4
This is mainly a textbook with historical research, but has 60 small, albeit high quality, images, with modern recreations of hojojutsu ties.
In 2007, Nureki Chimuo wrote on his blog about this book. Now available in Faviola Llervus’ translation:
”Looking at the 60 tiny business card-sized monochrome photos inserted in the book ‘Yoriki, Doshin and Jitte Capture Rope’, I was so turned on I couldn’t stand it. (…) I am honestly more turned on by this black and white photo than by a hundred books of beautifully colored kinbaku photos of totally naked women’s bodies lined up in front of me. It turns me on. It makes me want to masturbate.”
https://www.wallflowercodex.com/kinbakunomicon/pages/2007chat0501.html
Kazuhiko Itatsu: ”Ittatsu-Ryu Hojo-Jutsu” (2011)
一達流捕縄術
ISBN 978-4-9905829-0-6
This is a comprehensive description in text of how to tie some of the main hojojutsu ties, in Japanese and in (well… some kind of) English (see sample page). Each tie is showed on a doll, only in its finished state and only from one side (not step by step). The last pages show images taken by the researcher Nawa Yumio, of old dolls that was once used for hojojutsu-practice.
Itoh Seiu: ”Die Bilder über die Strafe und abnormer Geschlechtstrieb” (Pictures of punishment and abnormal sexual drive)
Japanese title: 世界の刑罰・性犯・変態の研究
The book contains 296 numbered images, divided in different sections. Each section has a commentary text.
Original edition 1930, this is a reprint from 1977.
This thick, hardbound volume comes in a silver-printed slipcase. It contains what in my perception is a quite heterogeneous collection of images of punishment, torture and execution, from different epochs and geographical locations. Thus, about half of the material is European (for example the execution of Damiens, unforgettable for anyone who has read the first pages of Foucault’s ”Discipline and Punish”). Most relevant for this blog, the book contains many historical images of hojojutsu, and the last section has several images by Itoh Seiu – including some photographs of tying in a snowy landscape. The section ends with a commentary-text by Itoh Seiu on kinbaku and seme/cruelty in theatre and in crime.
Itoh Seiu
”Twelve months of punishments”
十二カ月行事奇態刑罰図譜
1953 (?)
In typical Japanese art-book style, with the text written on rice-paper over the actual print. The book shows its age, and is not in the best condition – but the colour quality of the print is amazing.
Kinbaku Books 