Randa Mai: Kinbaku rannyo
A beautiful rope-focussed book in a somewhat glamorous style, including some essays. Less SM play than what at least I associate with Randa. Featuring also some examples of the art of tying persons to objects.
Photo: Tokura Hajime and Tokura Kumi
Model: Terui Misa
Publisher: Michio Sakamoto, 2003
No ISBN.
From the Osada Steve donation.
Oda Hisashi: 羞恥と被虐の緊縛術 (Kinbaku-jutsu for inducing shame and submission)
A tutorial book and DVD by Oda Hisashi. Includes also an interview, and some images of SM play. You can read more about Oda Hisashi, and his relations with Osada Eikichi and Osada Steve, here: http://www.tokyobound.com/blog/?p=359
The DVD starts with an unconventional arms-in-front tie, and moves on to a few quick-release neckties. Includes some suspension technique.
Publisher: Sanwa Mook, 2007
ISBN: 978-4-7769-0217-1
From the Osada Steve donation.
Marai Masato: 燐花―友崎りん処女 SM写真集
Large format full colour photo-book, beautifully photographed by Sugiura Norio. Many pictures with school-uniforms, a few with rice rope, and the last ones showing some less known aspects of Japanese fishing-culture…
Rope: Marai Masato
Photo: Sugiura Norio
Publisher: Sanwa Mook, 2003
ISBN 4-7769-0007-6
See also my earlier posts on Marai Masato: https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/?s=Marai+Masato&submit=Sök
From the Osada Steve donation.
Donation from Osada Steve
In the Fall of 2014, I received a letter from Osada Steve, in which he generously offered me a donation of Kinbaku-material.
He wrote: ”You have an amazing collection (…) I am in the process of cleaning up my office and keep digging up stuff that I didn’t know I had. (…) They are too good to disappear in the abyss, so I’m trying to find a good home for them. I also keep running into back issues of my little FetishJapan mag. I think if you have the complete collection they will be in much better hands than being scattered around here. If you like, I will keep sending these to you as they come up (…) Most of the ”books” are run-off-the-mill kinbaku porn that I have assembled over the past 30+ years, but there is a gem here and there that will complement your serious collection – I hope. (…) It is great that you collect, archive and share – it is a great service to the community. Please feel free to use any way you wish. I fully trust your judgment. (…) I hope there is something of value in it for your research endeavors.”
In the end, the donation was even greater than my expectations: Three large boxes full of books, magazines, movies on VHS and DVD, the FetishJapan mag, flyers – and more. All in all 45 kg of material.
My plan is to approach this material piecemeal, making individual posts for the different publications, marking them ”OS” to show their provenance. On the blog, I have so far only posted about printed material, excluding the DVDs etc in my collection. I will probably make some exceptions from this general principle when I begin present the material from these boxes the next few weeks.
For now, just let me say: Thank you Steve-san
Two special issues of Kitan Club from 1959 and 1960
A regular issue of Kitan Club contained more text than images. But a few times they did special ”limited edition” issues with images only – like these two from 1959 and 1960. The issue from 1959 also has a large section of illustrations. Both issues show hojojutsu ties – some also with neck-rope.
1. 奇譚クラブ 限定版特別号 Kitan Club Genteiban tokubetsu-gō (Limited edition, special issue) 緊縛写真グラフ集 (Kinbaku shashin gurafu-shū) Collection of kinbaku photos
Kitan Club, special issue from July 1960
2. 奇譚クラブ緊縛写真 緊縛画集 Kitan Club: Kinbaku syasin to Gasyu (kinbaku art photobook)
Kitan Club, special issue from August 1959
See also an earlier post: https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/kinbaku-photo-arabesque-1959/
Nagaike Takeshi: ”Rope” and ”California Club” (1995)
My first bondage teacher was Midori. Naturally, I have always been curious about her teacher, Nagaike Takeshi. A couple of years ago, Kabuki Joe put me on track with a post on his blog: http://shockingpinkcinema.blogspot.se/2012/11/nomoto-miho-and-nagaike-takeshi.html
Soon after, I found a kind of antology, edited by Dan Oniroku, that included some images from ”California Club”, one of the books mentioned by KJ – see my post here: https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/dan-oniroku-異形の遊戯%E3%80%82deviant-pleasures/
Zetsu recently wrote an excellent feature story in Kinbaku Today – read it here: http://www.kinbakutoday.com/americas-first-japanese-bakushi/
Details on the books:
Nagaike Takeshi: ROPE―野本美穂 (Nomoto Miho)
For a book called ”Rope”, it should perhaps be noted that only about 25 pages actually involve rope-bondage. It moves from softcore nude and halfnude erotica to suspension in ropes without warning… But some of the rope-images are fantastic.
Photo: 会田 我路 (Garo Aida)
Publisher: 海王社, september 1995
ISBN: 4-87724-041-1
Nagaike Takeshi: カリフォルニア・クラブ―ケン・マーカス写真集
”California Club – photos by Ken Marcus”
A clashing of different aesthetics…
Photo: Ken Marcus
The ”Bondage Master (US)” is credited in the book with the signature ”Ira” (aka Ernest Greene), responsible for the ”western” bondage
Nawashi: Takeshi Nagaike
Models: several, including a young Jenna Jameson
Publisher: ワニマガジン社, december 1995
ISBN: 4-89829-240-2
Yasuji Watanabe and Atasushi Sakai: Phantôme Japonais
This beautifully hardbound book is a piece of art in itself. It contains images and texts earlier published in the Japanese magazine SM Sniper (1997–2003) under the headline ”Shashin hyakumonogatari”. The texts (in French) are somewhat lyrical short stories with powerful, sometimes mythological, themes, illustrated with the scenes in the images. The photos are originally in black and white, but have been coloured in afterwards.
ISBN 978-2-35348-052-4
Publisher: Le Lezard Noir, 2014
See also some earlier posts involving Yasuji Watanabe: https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/?s=yasuji+watanabe&submit=Sök
The book ”Beautifully bound” is one of the treasures of my collection of Japanese Kinbaku material. Some time ago, I initiated a project with this book at its focus, and in the process I commissioned the texts it contains to be translated. As the intended project has somehow stalled, I decided to at least share the images and the translated texts with the readers of this blog in the form of a short Powerpoint-presentation. The translation is a somewhat rough draft. I hope you still find it useful.
To download the presentation (30 MB), click here: Beautifully Bound PP
My previous post on this book is here: https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/beautifully-bound/
Naka Akira: 緊縛写真集 (Rope Artworks) (2014)
This is a rich book. For a change, the photos of Naka’s rope work is not by Sugiura Norio (the only one except Nureki Chimuo that Naka calls ”sensei”), but by Erisa Sato. She has stated that she is interested in a ”relational” aspect of kinbaku – this is perhaps one of the reasons that the book contains quite a few images where not only the tied person is shown, but also the person tying. The bakushi emerges from the shadows… As friends of this blog might have noticed, whenever I have the chance I tend to choose such images wherever I can, but in the publications they are relatively rare.
In addition to the photos of sessions with a number of interesting models (including Gorgone and Iroha Shizuki), the book comes with a DVD. And to top that off, it also has an interview with Naka-san translated into quite readable English, with statements like the following: ”They say that a binding person is sadistic and a bound person is masochistic. When I bind someone however, I put myself into my partner’s position and care about their feeling. I have a feeling that I am not sadistic by nature. I think I am rather masochistic. In fact, I even think that is why I can do that way.”
Photo by Erisa Sato.
ISBN: 978-4-8130-7160-0
Publisher: Taiyo Tosho, 2014
PS For anyone who wants to read some other interviews with Naka San, there is a recent one in Spanish from his visit to Madrid here (including a short video):
http://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2014/11/15/54669d5bca4741ee698b457b.html
Also, there is a somewhat longer interview in Su Zume’s new book Pink Kinky: Japan’s Sex Underground (Kingyo, 2014, p. 109–119) – that also has smaller interviews with Kinoko (not quite up-to-date), Hiromi Saotome, and many others. Admittedly somewhat superficial, but gives a nice sneek peek into the night life of Tokyo.
大緊縛2 S&Mスナイパー特選 (1989)
Dai Kinbaku 2 S&M Sniper special edition
This square book features a kind of catalogue of a large number of kinbaku-models. Probably a retrospect of images earlier published by S&M Sniper magazine.
No ISBN
Kinbaku Books 