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”.
Shigeru Kayama: 緊縛写真 1-5 (Kinbaku Shashin 1-5)
Rope: Shigeru Kayama
Editor: Dan Oniroku
Publisher: Haga Shoten, 1969 (no. 1, 2 & 3); 1970 (no. 4&5)
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
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)
Itoh Seiu
安田コレクション5 地獄の女 論語通解
The Yasuda Collection Vol. 5: “Jigoku no Onna” and “Rongo Tsukai”
This beautiful box, dedicated to the work of Itoh Seiu, is the fifth in a series of erotica, edited by Yasuda Ashiaki. It consists of a carton slipcase containing two folders with reproductions. One with ”Rongo Tsukai”, Itoh Seiu’s first seme-e collection from 1930 that was banned by the censors. And one with ”Jigoku no Onna” (Women in Hell).
No ISBN.
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”.)
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.
Muku Youji (Ed.): Nawa to Onna / 縄と女 (an SM illustrators album) Tokyo: Kitan-kai 1970 Slightly off topic for this blog, this is an anthology of the work of several illustrators. In his book ”The Beauty of Kinbaku” (p. 53), Master K list the contributors as including Obinata, Kitoh Akira, Yamada, Oki Shoji and Ishizuka Yoshiyuki.
”美しき縛しめ / Beautifully Bound” (1953) Rope by Minomura Kou, photos by Tesuzo Tsukamoto. Editor Shigeru Kayama. Called ”the first artistic photo album of bondage published in Japan”. Printrun: 500 copies.
Zetsu has a post about this book, recommended reading:
https://fetlife.com/users/93955/posts/1213149
This book is ”number one” on Master K:s shortlist of ”The 10 Greatest Kinbaku Photography Books Ever Published”, check it out here:
http://www.thebeautyofkinbaku.com/kinbakuandartchap2.html
PS I have now added a full scan of all the images in the book, including a translation of all the text to English, and made a Powerpoint. You can access it here: https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/beautifully-bound-1953-a-presentation/
Urado Hiroshi: Shashin Nawa to Onna 1 & 2
”Rope and Women 1 & 2”
Publisher: Misaki Shobo, 1970
Kinbaku Books 
