Shima Shikou in ”Specialist S&M”  (1982 and 1983)

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Shima Shikou in スペシャリーS&M,  No. 26 (1982) and No. 29 (1983)

Shima Shikou has been around for a long time on the Japanese S&M scene. I have posted earlier about an issue of Sun & Moon from 1977 that features an article signed Shima Shikou. I have now updated that post with some of the photos. Here is a link:

https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/urado-hiroshi-sun-and-moon-no-5-1977/

In this post, I share some photos of a tutorial by Shima Shikou in the magazine Specialist S&M  (スペシャリーS&M ) from 1983. (There is a tutorial also in the issue from 1982, but I found this one the most interesting.)

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Erisa Satoh: Tristes Tropiques: Akira Naka’s Blue

 

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This booklet is a rare photographic exploration of kinbaku. Not focussed on the tied up person (although they are visible in some photos), also not focused on the interaction between the person tying and the person being tied (which was often the case in Erisa Satoh’s previous book) – but instead the focus is singularly on the tying person, Naka Akira, in a certain… blue… mood.

A very beautiful project.

See my earlier post on Erisa Satoh’s previous book wih Naka here:

https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/naka-akira-緊縛写真集-rope-artworks-2014/

Erisa Satoh’s website: www.studio-eripsycho.com

Publisher: 撞着社, 2017

ISBN: 978-4-909126-00-9

Naka Akira: Shibari to Seme (2017)

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Naka Akira: 縛りと責め [Shibari to Seme]

This book is a kind of repackaging of vintage material. It offers stills from sixteen videos that Naka Akira did in collaboration with the director 夢流ZOU, from 2002 to 2008, most of them from the original ”Nawa Etsu”-series (”Rope Joy”), all earlier published by Art Video. In addition to the photo-book, there is included a DVD with two and a half hours of material, cut from eleven of the films. Master ‘K’ once included this series of ”The 10 best Kinbaku films and Videos ever produced” – In my view, there is no doubt that they belong there. Link: http://www.thebeautyofkinbaku.com/kinbakuandartchap8pt2.html

Publisher: Sanwa, 2017

ISBN: 978-4-7769-1688-8

Osada Eikichi: ”My SM itinerary”, in SM Mania No. 8–12 (1996)

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Osada Eikichi: ”My SM itinerary”, in SM Mania No. 8–12, 1996

In 1996, the magazine SMマニア published a series of articles about Osada Eikichi’s life of SM, illustrated with photos in black and white.

I have made an earlier post about issue No. 10 here:

https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/osada-eikichi-in-sm-mania-1996/

Osada Eikichi: Secrets of Kinbaku (1978)

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Osada Eikichi: 緊縛秘戯  [Secrets of Kinbaku] (1978)

Publisher: Edo Productions

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This rare publication documents the activities of the ”Osada Seminar” from the late 1970s.

32 pages long, it contains photos (both in color and in black & white), a tutorial, and a short text inviting the reader to be a member, describing the activities of the Osada Seminar as regularly doing ”SM theatre”.

Urado Hiroshi (Ed.): ”Sun and Moon サン・アンド” 1978

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Urado Hiroshi (Ed.): ”Sun and Moon サン・アンド” No. 3, 5, 6, 10/11 (1978)

In the first images here (from issue 3 and issue 5) rope is by Yamamoto (see further my last blogpost about ”The Beacon”).

Then follows four images with rope by Urado, from issue 6, where the model Mayumi Miyata appears (mentioned in my earlier post about the magazine ”Image” No.2), with Urado using his hands to form her face. (Marginal note: Issue 5 also features some of the photos of Urado’s rope that are included in Image No. 2, along with an article – but here, the photo-reproduction is not as good [small, black and white, non-glossy paper].)

In the double issue 10/11 there is a photo-illustrated article called ”Female seppuku mania letter”. As we shall see in an upcoming post, this as a recurring theme in a related publication from this time.

Urado Hiroshi: The Beacon (1977-1978)

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Urado Hiroshi: The Beacon (ザ・ビーコン)

”The Beacon” was a photo-magazine published only in a few issues (indeed maybe only these three). Most probably 1977–1978.

I am not sure, but to my eye, it seems it contains rope-work both by Urado Hiroshi (the images where white cotton rope is used above), and by Yamamoto Issho (山本一章 , my proposal of identifying the tying person wearing the blue striped pants).

Yamamoto (born 1927) is a historically interesting bakushi that we may well be returning to on this blog. In an interview with Akechi Denki from 2005, Osada Steve asks:

Are you completely self-taught? Did you learn rope from someone?

No one taught me. But I did become friends with Tsujimura Takashi, whose work appeared in Kitan Club in those days, and his friend Yamamoto Issho. They were based in Kansai (Osaka) but we would meet when we could and practice bondage together, and lend each other our partners.” (Source: http://www.tokyobound.com/blog/?p=114 )

ザ・ビーコン The Beacon 別冊 SUN & MOON No.2

被虐妖精 陶酔希求の影像 (Images of desire, cruelty and euphoria)

Publisher: エドプロダクツ

(White cotton rope throughout, probably all Urado)

 

ザ・ビーコン The Beacon No.2

調教部屋1被虐性の涵養 (Training Room 1 Cultivation of Mortality)

Publisher: エドプロダクツ

(Black, hojojutsu-inspired, rope and golden rope, probably all Yamamoto)

 

ザ・ビーコン The Beacon No.3

調教部屋(2)甘美な緊縛 (Training Room 2 Sweet Bondage)

Publisher: エドプロダクツ

(Mixed, some white cotton rope, some golden rope, probably both Urado and Yamamoto)

Urado Hiroshi: Sun and Moon, No 5 (1977)

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Urado Hiroshi: Sun and Moon, No 5 (1977)

Here are a few posts about publications that appeared around the same time-period, and with many of the same people involved. I am painfully aware that I have not been able to sort out all the specifics, but I am now sharing some of the material and hope to learn more. As often is the case, an important source for me has been http://www.smpedia.com

The misunderstandings and errors are however all my own. Comments and corrections are welcome as always.

”Sun and Moon” was an SM-magazine, started in 1977. In 1978 it branched off into some special issues and separate publications (see the next few posts here on the blog), and in 1980 it was re-launched with names like ”The High Sun & Moon”, ”The Original Sun & Moon”.

The images posted here are from ”Sun and Moon” No. 5  (1977), the first one edited by Urado Hiroshi. The issue opens with a ten-page article by Urado.

On the backside cover is a advertisment for the first issue of ”The Beacon” (see further separate post).

A marginal note: the issue also has an article signed ”Shima Shikou” (志摩紫光) – one of his very first apperances in a publication. UPDATE: I have now included some of the photos from Shima Shikou’s article below.

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

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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.

 

Kinoko Hajime: 花札緊縛美人―写真集 (2017)

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Kinoko Hajime 花札緊縛美人―写真集 (2017)

Pine (January), Plum (February). Cherry Blossoms (March)… in Kinokos new photo-book, there is a deep resonance with older traditions of Japanese art. Twelve months, twelve plants, twelve models – tied and photographed by Kinoko, sometimes complemented with illustrations by the manga-artist Shintarou Kago. I love some of the details, as for example the tenugui wrapped around the branches of the tree, not to hurt it when using it for suspension…

Rope and photo: Kinoko Hajime

Illustrations: 駕籠 真太郎

Publisher: Sanwa Mook, 2017

ISBN: 978-4-7769-1669-7

PS Among the many references to art-books structured by the twelve months, this is one perhaps worth mentioning: https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/itoh-seiu-twelve-months-of-punishments/