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
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)
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Kategoriarkiv: japanese rope bondage
Tsujimura Takashi: Special issue of SM KING (1973), Ishii Teruo movies, and a documentary from 1971
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This special issue of SM KING has the title ”The World of Tsujimura Takashi”. The issue represents one of the few larger collections of his work, otherwise spread out in magazines. According to Nawapedia, it is also the first photographic work by Sugiura Norio ever to be published. (See: http://www.nawapedia.com/index.php?title=Norio_Sugiura)
Nawapedia writes: ”It would not be an exaggeration to say that Takashi Tsujimura established modern Kinbaku Art (…) Tsujimura acted as a kinbakushi for virtually the entire run of Kitan Club magazine…” (http://nawapedia.com/index.php?title=Takashi_Tsujimura)
I find it very interesting that in the mid 1950s, he wrote a series of articles about the expression of the face of the kinbaku-model.
In addition, it seems, Akechi Denki met him and learned from him during his formative years. (http://tokyobound.com/blog/?p=114)
In one of the photos I have included below, Tsujimura is appearing publicly as an expert on bondage on the TV-show ”11 PM” in 1968. Around the same time, he was also responsible for the rope-bondage in a couple of large format dramatic movies by the director Teruo Ishii. The English text on the cover of this 5 dvd-box promises a ”world full of orgy, torture, tattoo, true crime… and massacre by samurai sword!” You will not be disappointed. The edition posted here has no English subtitles, but you can find these as well (I got mine here: http://japaneiga.free.fr/contact-info.html).
Master K writes in ”The Beauty of Kinbaku” (p. 61) that Tsujimura was the first ”magazine bakushi”, as he tied the model Kawabata Tanako in the Kitan Club, May/June issue 1952. This same issue according to Tsujimura himself, contains the first uses of the terms ”kinbaku” and ”kinbaku model” in a magazine.
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There is also a rare chance to see Tsujimura tie live for about 15 minutes in the historically very interesting 1971 Japanese documentary movie ”The World of Sexual Perversion” (セックスドキュメント 性倒錯の世界), now available on DVD (ASIN: B0058TI63Q). Here is the cover: 
Yukimura Haruki: Shibari one, two, three (1998)
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This carton-box contains three small photo-books in black and white. Master K, in his ”The Beauty of Kinbaku” calls them ”exquisite art photography books”, and mentions them on a short list of four outstanding photo-books as ”particularly impressive examples” (p. 50), later describing them as ”shibari/kinbaku photo art books (…) that rival in quality anything in the field” (p. 75). They were published by Yukimura himself through his – then active – company ”Sunset Video”.
ONE Model: Mai Masaki, Photo: Katumi Oka
TWO Model: Satuki Inoue, Photo: Keisuke Higure
THREE Model: Nijiko Tanaka, Photo: Tatsumi Watanabe
No ISBN.
Miyabi Kyodo: ”Gorgeous book of paintings” (2002)
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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/
”A Trip to Bondage in Japan” (1997)
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”A Trip to Bondage in Japan” (1997)
This large format hardbound book feautures photography by Kenichi Tanaka, who also took the pictures for Akechi Denkis beautiful ”Pleasure and a Little Pain”. I dont know who did the rope here (not Akechi Denki for sure). Mainly outdoor scenes, both black&white and colour.
See also: https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/akechi-denki-pleasure-and-a-little-pain/
Rope: ?
Photography: Kenichi Tanaka
Publisher: Japan Mix, 1997
ISBN: 13- 978-4883213443
Yukimura Haruki: ”Asereta cho, SM Photos” (2001) and ”Bond Photobook” 1–3 (2002)
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Yukimura Haruki: ”Asereta cho, SM Photos” (2001) and ”Bond Photobook” 1–3 (2002)
These four books, all from the same publisher, have somewhat the same aesthetics. Most of the pictures are without rope, and are at times ”Damsel in distress”-scenarios.
Rope is by Yukimura Haruki, and according to Zetsu, at least the Bond-books were shot while Yukimura was visiting Los Angeles (see http://www.ainawa.com/shop/books/bond-2/)
Rope: Yukimura Haruki
Photograpy: Fujisaki Ayaka
”Asereta cho, SM Photos” (2001): ISBN: 13- 978-4813008705
”Bond 1” (2002), Model: Yu Kinoshita: ISBN: 4-8130-0083-5
”Bond 2” (2002), Model: Nao Eguchi, ISBN: 4-8130-0084-3
”Bond 3” (2002), Model: Emie Yokoyama, ISBN: 4-8130-0085-1
SM Select (1973)
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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.
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.
Roppongi Kaoru: Objets du désir (1984)
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Master ”K” writes on his blog about the collaboration between the photographer Akira Ishigaki and the bakushi Roppongi Kaoru, resulting in the book ”Strange Fruits”:
”‘Strange Fruit’ was released in a limited, ‘deluxe’ edition in 1982 to only modest success in Japan. However, it did get Ishigaki (and by extension the kinbaku of Roppongi) an exhibition in 1983 at the East Bridge Gallery in New York City which then resulted in a small selection of Ishigaki’s kinbaku images being printed in the March, 1984 issue of the prestigious French photography magazine ‘Photo’, thus making the works of photographer Ishigaki and bakushi Roppongi Kaoru some of the first true Japanese kinbaku images ever presented in a Western general audience magazine.” (http://www.thebeautyofkinbaku.com/kinbakuandartchap1.html )
Rope: Roppongi Kaoru
Photo: Akira Ishigaki
French magazine ”Photo”, no 198, March 1984, p. 86–95
(Only a few of these images were published in the book ”Strange Fruits”.)
Itoh Seiu: ”Twelve months of punishments”
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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.
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