Itoh Seiu: ”Pictures from Hell”
Ten cards, colour print on one side, commentary text by Itoh Seiu on the backside of each card. Carefully wrapped in two layers of paper.
Osada Steve is in the process of publishing these images, with translations of Itoh Seius commmentaries on his blog: http://tokyobound.com/blog/?p=365
Itoh Seiu ”Graphic History of Punishment in Japan”
Itoh Seiu (in collaboration with Fujisawa Ehiko)
”Graphic History of Punishment in Japan”
日本刑罰風俗図史
1948
This edition comes in two volumes. Mainly a textbook, but illustrated.
Nureki Chimuo: ”The Illustrators of Kitan Club”
奇譚クラブ の絵師たち
Small format paperback-book, with lots of images in black and white, documenting the illustrations through the decades of the Kitan Club.
Publisher: Kawade Bunko, 2004
ISBN: 978-4309474595
秘禁縄淫画廊
An anthology of illustrations by Ozuma Kaname, Muku Youji, Harukawa Namio and others.
Publisher: My Way Mook, 2008
ISBN: 978-4861355097
耽美の発見 : SM画集 (Tanbi no Hakken: SM gashu)
According to Master K in ”The Beauty of Kinbaku” (p. 53), the anthology ”Tanbi no Hakken” (1969) was released as an ”art supplement” to a series of novels published by SM Bugaku.
It’s few pages contains illustrations by among others Kita Reiko, Sogabe Yashusi and Kasuga Akira. It also contains a couple of black and white photos.
Kasuga Akira: Youen Gashu (aka ”SM art of Kasuga Akira”).
Pencil sketches. Small format.
Publisher: Green Door Bunko, 1993
ISBN: 4-7669-1887-8
This is a collection of photos and illustrations edited by Dan Oniroku in 1996. The contents are quite varied – Kinichi Tanaka’s photos of Kate Asabuki, tied by Akechi Denki, stands out. Most of Tanaka’s photos are taken from the book ”Pleasure and a little pain” that was published the year before – one, however is from the same photo-shoot but not included in the earlier book.
As a curiosity, it can be mentioned that the book also features photos taken by the American photographer Ken Marcus, who the same year (1996) also published a photo-book with bondage-photos in Japan called ”California Club”. (And in 2009, he took the pictures for the Two Knotty Boys ”Back on the Ropes”…)
Dan Oniroku 異形の遊戯。(Deviant Pleasures )
Art Direction: Takeda Kazuhisa
Photo: Kinichi Tanaka, Yamasaki Shinji, etc
Rope: Akechi Denki, Nagaike Takeshi, etc
Illustrators: Kasuga Akira, Ozuma Kaname, Harukawa Namio
Models: Kate Asabuki, Ogawa Minako, etc
Publisher: Shouhei Hirada, 1996
ISBN 978-4898292419
Miyabi Kyodo: Gorgeous book of paintings 2
鏡堂みやび豪華画集 第弐集
Publisher: Tokyo: Sanwa, 2013
First edition, 500 copies
A black slipcase with a hardbound book, the second one from Sanwa collecting the work of the artist Miyabi Kyodo.
Master K writes in ”The Beauty of Kinbaku”:
”Miyabi’s SM art is like no other’s in Japan (…) [He] continues the traditions of evocative seme-e begun in the early Edo era that inspired the SM pioneer Itoh Seiyu, encompassed the mid-twentieth century genius of Kita Reiko, and still resonate with us today in the intriguing and artistic world of modern shibari/kinbaku.” (p. 84)
Itoh Seiu
安田コレクション5 地獄の女 論語通解
The Yasuda Collection Vol. 5: “Jigoku no Onna” and “Rongo Tsukai”
This beautiful box, dedicated to the work of Itoh Seiu, is the fifth in a series of erotica, edited by Yasuda Ashiaki. It consists of a carton slipcase containing two folders with reproductions. One with ”Rongo Tsukai”, Itoh Seiu’s first seme-e collection from 1930 that was banned by the censors. And one with ”Jigoku no Onna” (Women in Hell).
No ISBN.
Slightly off topic for this blog, this is a collection of seventeen cards (about the same size as playing-cards) with kinbaku-illustrations by Muku Youji.
In his book ”The Beauty of Kinbaku” (p. 64), Master K writes about Muku Youji as a ”connoisseur of sophisticated Kinbaku” whose images are ”meticulously drawn down to the last detail”, often first making photos then the actual drawing (here is an example of this: http://www.d-b.ne.jp/yohji/muku/307.jpg ).
UPDATE February 2015: I found out that the whole series consists of 40 cards. I have now managed to get hold of them all and add to the collection.
Kinbaku Books 
