Kategoriarkiv: Itoh Seiu

Itoh Seiu: ”Die Bilder über die Strafe und abnormer Geschlechtstrieb” (1930)

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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: ”Pictures from Hell”

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Itoh Seiu: ”Pictures from Hell”

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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 as a figurine

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Itoh Seiu as a figurine

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Kinbaku-paraphernalia… This makes me wonder just how well-known Itoh Seiu is in Japan. A series of eight plastic figurines, depicting Itoh Seiu and some of the scenes he created.

These are not bodies in random poses wrapped haphazardly in rope. The same company also made a series of eight figurines based on the work of Muku Youji – they do seem to have some insight into the history of kinbaku…

Itoh Seiu: “Jigoku no Onna” and “Rongo Tsukai”

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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.

Yomikiri Romance (1952 and 1953)

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Ueda Seishiro and Itoh Seiu: 読切ロマンス　(Yomikiri Romance), 1952 and 1953

In summer 1952 (the same summer that the word ”kinbaku” was first used in Kitan Club) and then again early 1953, the magazine ”Yomikiri Romance”, that earlier had sometimes included a few bondage pictures, made two special issues on this theme.

The first one was published under the supervision of Ueda Seishiro, a budding nawashi, editor and close associate with Itoh Seiu. The special issue was given the title ”Nudo Fuzoku Arubamu” (Album with Various Nudes).

Master K, in his book The Beauty of Kinbaku, calls this ”the first commercial publication completely dedicated to shibari/kinbaku photography (…) a groundbreaking event in SM publishing” (p. 51).

Faviola Llervu has made a translation of a text by Ueda in this issue, now available on the website Kinbakunomicon, here: http://www.wallflowercodex.com/kinbakunomicon/1952yokip1.html

Early next year (1953) ”Yomikiri Romance”, published a second special issue, now in a smaller format. This time, it was Itoh Seiu himself who tied and supervised it. The issue was given the title ”Etsugyaku Koukotsu To” (Graphic Depiction of Ecstasy in Pleasure and Pain).

(The first five images above are from ”Nudo Fuzoku Arubamu”, the last three are from ”Etsugyaku Koukotsu To”.)

Itoh Seiu: Sketches

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seiu cover 4 seiu cover 3 seiu inlaga sketch seiu fold out seiu cover 1 seiu cover 2 伊藤晴雨画集 / Itoh Seiu Gashu Publisher: Shinchosha, 1997 ISBN-13: 978-4107200433

This is the most ambitious collection of Itoh Seiu’s work that I am aware of.

Large format, hardbound book with exclusive paper, in a cloth slipcase enclosed in a cardboard box. Very limited edition, copies numbered by hand (this is number 286)