Muku Youji: 処女狩り
A large format, thick book, printed on good quality paper. Drawings by Muku, many of them probably based on original ties by Nureki.
A special publication from SM Collector from April 1981. Rare.
Publisher: KKサン出版
No ISBN
Muku Youji: ”縄 Jyo” (2000)
『椋陽児 縄 Jyo』
A cardboard box, containing a sturdy and large-format book with a retrospect of Muku’s artwork, some in colour, mostly in black and white. It may be reasonably assumed that most of the rope-work in the images is by Nureki. The last pages show also some of Muku’s manga.
The title combines the sign ”nawa” (rope) with ”Jyo”. I am uncertain if this in any way is related to Yukimura’s expression ”Jyowa”, that recently was used by Pedro Diniz Reis for a very interesting movie about Kinbaku (see http://www.jyowa.com ).
Limited edition, 1500 numbered copies, this is number 1227.
Publisher: Mandarake, 2000
Three illustrators: Ozuma, Maeda Juan, and Muku Youji: 悦虐肌秘画三人集 艶女
This rare deluxe volume comes in a sturdy carton slipcase. Large format, glossy paper, mostly colour. Works by the three artists Ozuma, Maeda Juan, and Muku Youji, with some introductory comments.
Publisher: 企画・編集 / 魁歓社
Muku Youji: 夢少女伝説 (Yume shojodensetsu) ”Legendary dream girls”
A thick paperback collection of Muku Youji’s pencil images, all in black and white, with reasonable quality. I choose two of the images as they show versions of the ”Daruma shibari”.
ISBN 4-86135-119-7
Publisher: マイウェイ出版, 2005
Ai-nawa Stories: 愛縄物語
This softcover book, printed on rather cheap paper, collects the work of four artists under the headline ”Eros Painters of the Showa Age”: Muku Youji, Maeda Juan, Oki Shoji and Kasama Shiro. In addition to some classic Muku-drawings, you also get some of his cartoons / manga. Each artist is also presented with a short biography and a portrait.
ISBN-13: 978-4434076688
Publisher: マガジン・ファイブ, 2006
Muku Youji’s images turned into figurines
These eight plastic ”Ero-pon” figurines recreate some of Muku Youji’s images in another medium. The come also with small plastic bags of minutely detailed accessories from the images, such as a pair of taken-off panties or a rubber tube for enema-play. These are some of the weirdest kinbaku-paraphernalia in my collection.
See an earlier post on Itoh Seiu in the same series here:
https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/itoh-seiu-as-a-figurine/
See also my earlier posts about Muku:
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Naka Akira: 責め縄絵巻 (Semenawa Emaki) (2011)
This 240-page full colour-book shows photos from seven different sessions, previously released on DVD by Murusou Club. (Quite like this one, but in another format: https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/akira-naka-kinbaku-net-vol-1/ ).
One session is together with Naka’s sensei, Nureki Chimuo. Another one is dedicated to Muku Youji – and indirectly maybe also to Nureki, as Nureki very often did the tying that Muku Youji made the images of. In this session, Naka and the model Saki Momoka then use these images as inspiration. Compare my earlier post on Muku Youji’s ”Cards” here: https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/muku-youji-cards/
Preface by Masayuki Kotoh: ”as he kneels in front of the gods Eros and Thanatos, his Kinbaku emanates beauty. His art expresses a level of poetry which approaches the sublime when compared to those around him”.
Includes a DVD.
Models: Yu Kawakami, Maki Tomoda, Chisa Kirishima, Saki Momoka and Momo Shiroi
Publisher: サニー出版 (Sunny Publishing), 2011
SMフォト全集 (SM collector) 1980, 1982, 1983
Sm collector was a magazine that was started in 1972 by amongs others Minomura Kou. It folded 1985. Most of the images above are from the 1980-issue. Various bakushi and models are featured, but quite a few images show Nureki’s ropework. They contain also illustrations by for example Muku Youji and, represented here with the lady holding a gun, Harukawa Namio.
Muku Youji: 異色耽美画集 no 1
Ishoku tanbi gashu no 1
Rope, photos in black-and white and illustrations. Edited by Muku Youji.
I am uncertain about the year of publication – my guess is late 1950s — early 1960s. If you have any further information about this series of black booklets, please contact me.
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