Kategoriarkiv: Shibari

耽美の発見 : SM画集 (Tanbi no Hakken: SM gashu)

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耽美の発見 : SM画集 (Tanbi no Hakken: SM gashu)

According to Master K in ”The Beauty of Kinbaku” (p. 53), the anthology ”Tanbi no Hakken” (1969) was released as an ”art supplement” to a series of novels published by SM Bugaku.
It’s few pages contains illustrations by among others Kita Reiko, Sogabe Yashusi and Kasuga Akira. It also contains a couple of black and white photos.

Beautifully Bound booklet series

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After the two outstanding books ”Beautifully Bound” number 1 and 2 (aka the ”black book” and the ”red book”), a series of booklets were started: ”Beautifully Bound” numbers 3–11.
These were published by Tenseisya, Abeno Osaka

The images above are from are issues number 3 (1964), number 6 (1965) and number 9 (1966).
Number 9 contains no rope bondage, only leather straps and chains.

Dan Oniroku (Ed.): 緊縛写真・別巻 1-5 (Kinbaku Shashin Bessatsu 1-5)

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緊縛写真・別巻 1-5 (Kinbaku Shashin Bessatsu 1-5)

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緊縛写真・別巻 1-5 (Kinbaku Shashin Bessatsu 1-5) (supplement 1-5)
Editor: Dan Oniroku
Photo: Eisaku Tozuka
Publisher: Tanbikan, 1970

Each issue has 200 pages of photos, some in black and white, some in color.
For the blog, I have chosen mostly images from supplement issue no 4, with the theme ”women tying women”.

Dan Oniroku (Ed.) 異形の遊戯。(Deviant Pleasures )

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This is a collection of photos and illustrations edited by Dan Oniroku in 1996. The contents are quite varied – Kinichi Tanaka’s photos of Kate Asabuki, tied by Akechi Denki, stands out. Most of Tanaka’s photos are taken from the book ”Pleasure and a little pain” that was published the year before – one, however is from the same photo-shoot but not included in the earlier book.
As a curiosity, it can be mentioned that the book also features photos taken by the American photographer Ken Marcus, who the same year (1996) also published a photo-book with bondage-photos in Japan called ”California Club”. (And in 2009, he took the pictures for the Two Knotty Boys ”Back on the Ropes”…)

Dan Oniroku 異形の遊戯。(Deviant Pleasures )
Art Direction: Takeda Kazuhisa
Photo: Kinichi Tanaka, Yamasaki Shinji, etc
Rope: Akechi Denki, Nagaike Takeshi, etc
Illustrators: Kasuga Akira, Ozuma Kaname, Harukawa Namio
Models: Kate Asabuki, Ogawa Minako, etc
Publisher: Shouhei Hirada, 1996
ISBN 978-4898292419

Miyabi Kyodo: Gorgeous book of paintings 2

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Miyabi Kyodo: Gorgeous book of paintings 2
鏡堂みやび豪華画集　第弐集
Publisher: Tokyo: Sanwa, 2013
First edition, 500 copies

A black slipcase with a hardbound book, the second one from Sanwa collecting the work of the artist Miyabi Kyodo.

Master K writes in ”The Beauty of Kinbaku”:
”Miyabi’s SM art is like no other’s in Japan (…) [He] continues the traditions of evocative seme-e begun in the early Edo era that inspired the SM pioneer Itoh Seiyu, encompassed the mid-twentieth century genius of Kita Reiko, and still resonate with us today in the intriguing and artistic world of modern shibari/kinbaku.” (p. 84)

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”.)

Muku Youji: Cards

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Slightly off topic for this blog, this is a collection of seventeen cards (about the same size as playing-cards) with kinbaku-illustrations by Muku Youji.

In his book ”The Beauty of Kinbaku” (p. 64), Master K writes about Muku Youji as a ”connoisseur of sophisticated Kinbaku” whose images are ”meticulously drawn down to the last detail”, often first making photos then the actual drawing (here is an example of this: http://www.d-b.ne.jp/yohji/muku/307.jpg ).

UPDATE February 2015: I found out that the whole series consists of 40 cards. I have now managed to get hold of them all and add to the collection.