World Food Books

Izumi Suzuki (1949—1986)

1994, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi), 240 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Bunyusha / Tokyo

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first 1994 edition of this gorgeous book-document of the life and work of acclaimed Japanese sci-fi author and countercultural icon, Izumi Suzuki, published by Bunyusha, Tokyo, and illustrated with Nobuyoshi Araki's photographs. "Towards the love of speed, told by people who were around. A record of an amazing life. Actress, writer, wife of Kaoru Abe"

Long out-of-print, this book portrait documents the singular, but tragically short, biography and bibliography of this Japanese sci-fi iconoclast who debuted as a writer at the age of 20, having written stories since her childhood. Edited by Tamami Nishimura and Kenichi Yamada, commemorative chapters on Suzuki by her friends, collaborators and colleagues trace her life on the stage (as a member of Shuji Terayama's underground theater troupe Tenjo Saijiki), the screen (as "pink" film actress), the image (as model and muse to photographer Nobuyoshi Araki), the page (as celebrated pop culture essayist and proto-cyberpunk author), through the life between with marriage to free jazz alto-saxophonist Kaoru Abe and suicide at age 36 — a life as adventurous and tumultuous as the art they made and the counterculture they inhabited. Illustrated throughout with Nobuyoshi Araki's intimate colour and b/w photographs of Suzuki. Includes comprehensive bibliography of Suzuki's writings, many magazine articles and works of fiction.

Izumi Suzuki was born in 1949. After dropping out of high school she worked in a factory before finding success and infamy as a model and actress. She was a member of Shuji Terayama's independent underground theater troupe Tenjo Saijiki, and acted in both "pink" films and classics of 1970s Japanese cinema. Izumi was the subject of many of Nobuyoshi Araki's most famous photographs and this photobook is one of his most sought after. When the father of her children, the jazz musician Kaoru Abe, died of an overdose, Suzuki’s creative output went into hyperdrive and she began producing the irreverent and punky short fiction, novels and essays that ensured her reputation would outstrip and outlast that of the men she had been associated with in her early career. She took her own life in 1986, leaving behind a decade’s worth of groundbreaking and influential writing.

Good copy in dust jacket and obi. Most complete copy, with some buckling.

File under: Izumi Suzuki Kaoru Abe Nobuyoshi Araki Shuji Terayama Shūji Terayama Tenjo Sajiki Izumi Suzuki Bunyusha / Tokyo Fiction / Poetry Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Art Performance / Dance / Theater Eros Sound / Music Film / Video

Ruiko Yoshida
Harlem : Black Angels

1974, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi), 112 pages, 26 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kodansha Int / Tokyo

$550.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare first 1974 edition of acclaimed female Japanese photographer Ruiko Yoshida's powerful ode to Harlem. Born in Hokkaido in 1938, Yoshida witnessed discrimination against the Ainu, an indigenous peoples native to northern Japan, and much of her work since has been focused on discrimination in society around the world. Harlem : Black Angels is a collection of Yoshida's breath-taking photographs of Harlem in the late 1960s, one of the largest black communities in the world, where she settled after majoring in photojournalism at Columbia University. She married an African American man with whom she had a child. Their daily lives, and the community of Harlemites in the midst of cultural revolution, became the subject of her photographs. The images seem to show a complete assimilation into black culture that had not been depicted by non-black artists at the time and rarely since. Yoshida captures both the time and place with uncanny virtuosity, blurring the frontiers between a personal and an objective documentary of a uniquely vibrant era Harlem. From her touching pictures of the children, to the Vietnam protests, Angela Davis, the funeral of Malcolm X, the Jazz musicians (Coltrane, Davis, Gillespie, Coleman...), the street festivals, the markets, The Black Panthers, Yoshida's gravure images are captioned in both Japanese and English, evoking the powerful sentiments of the time and the spirit of the people.

"Ruiko Yoshida's photographs of Harlem in the early 1970s brilliantly capture various aspects of the culture and the times, showing a side of the U.S. that she felt her Japanese contemporaries knew little about. In the process she created a compelling work that offers an incisive critique of racial hierarchies in the U.S. that, despite its deeply felt humanism, is missing from Bruce Davidson's East 100th Street."—photo-eye

Little known in the West until a reprint in 2010, Harlem : Black Angels has become a jewel of Japanese photo-journalism and a testament to the great breadth of postwar Japanese photobooks. Pictures included in this book were part of the exhibition “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”

Includes text in both Japanese and English by poet Hajime Kijima.

Very Good copy in original publishers plastic dust jacket and original BLUE obi-strip. Dust jacket with the usual shrinkage and wear due to age. Otherwise cover, obi and interior pages VG—NF, preserved by dust jacket all these years. A most complete copy.

File under: Ruiko Yoshida Ornette Coleman John Coltrane Miles Davis Dizzy Gillespie Hajime Kijima Kodansha Int / Tokyo Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Sociology / Politics

Testament of The Atomic Bomb Survivor
Photo Collection of Atomic Bomb Photographers

1985 / 1993, Japanese
Softcover, 72 pages, 21 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Photographers' Association / Japan

$70.00 - Out of stock

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First published in 1985 by the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Photographers' Association, Testament of The Atomic Bomb Survivor presents an unsettling and profound collection of photographs taken by the "hibakusha" (A-bomb survivors) to serve as a stark reminder of the devastation that befell the Japanese people when the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, killing between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians. Richly illustrated glossy b/w photo book, accompanied by captions in Japanese, introduction in Japanese and English, and further historical and biographical information in Japanese.

"The thermal rays and the blast force from the atomic bomb took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, destroyed all the buildings in central Hiroshima in an instant, and turned most of them into ashes. In addition, those who were unharmed at the time of the explosion but exposed to the radiation suffered the symptoms of the A-bomb disease caused by the residual radioactivity, and died one after another. There are still many survivors all over Japan as well as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki who are suffering the aftereffects of the bombing. That is something that should never happen again. But we are in danger of having new destruction be- fore the old wounds are healed, and we cannot simply disregard the threat of human extinction. We, the Association of the Photographers of the atomic (Bomb) Destruction of Hiroshima, published a collection of photographs taken by us entitled, "The Time of the Destruction of Hiroshima," in August 1981. As hibakusha (A-bomb survivors) we cannot help but feel indignant at the present situation of the ever continuing production, testing, and de- ployment of nuclear weapons. The forty years following the destruction by the atomic bomb have seen seven of the twenty photographers who survived the bombing die. Those remaining are getting old and the average age of our group is above seventy years. We get impatient at the fact that the atomic bomb is the great enemy of humanity, but the people who can bear witness to what happened are fading out. Hundreds of thousands of people died in bitterness. I intend to offer my short remaining life to keep on telling the story as a witness, lest the death of those people be in vain, while I pray for the repose of their souls.—Yoshito Matsushige, Representative of the Association of the Photographers of the Atomic (Bomb) Destruction of Hiroshima

Very Good—NF copy of 1993 reprint of the 1985 edition. Only light wear.

File under: Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Photographers' Association / Japan Sociology / Politics Crime / Violence Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography

Simon Yotsuya
Pygmalionisme

2000, Japanese
Hardcover, 222 pages, 28 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Oita City Art Museum / Oita

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce copy of the stunning hardcover survey of Japanese doll artist Simon Yotsuya, published on the occasion of a major retrospective that travelled Japan between 2000—2002. All the works of Simon Yotsuya are included, from his earliest examples to his latest works — his "Innocent Things: Young Boys and Girls," "Tempting Things: Women," "Automatic Things: Mechanical Devices," "Heavenly Things: Angels and Christ," "Creations of the Self: Simon," "Unfinished Things and Homage to Bellmer" — all beautifully photographed by Japan's leading photographers, including most by Simon's friend and master photographer Kishin Shinoyama, along with many photos of Simon Yotsuya in his parallel career as a female (doll) actor in the 1960s-70s Japanese avant-garde theatre scene. Along with essays, biography, bibliography, chronology, this comprehensive book includes important articles, magazines, and posters. A gorgeous book that will appeal to any fan. Despite his popularity in Japan, Simon Yotsuya's monographic books are surprisingly few in number.

Simon Yotsuya (b. 1944, Tokyo) started making dolls as a child, visiting exhibitions of dolls, and reads all the books he can find on the subject. In his mid-teens he visited Puppe Kawasaki, a doll maker and animator he greaty admired, devoting himself to the craft and becoming a poor high school student. In the early '60s, while working at a jazz coffee shop in Shinjuku, Yotsuya earned the nickname "Simon" (pronounced “Simone”), after his love for singer Nina Simone. He befriends Kuniyoshi Kaneko (painter) and Junko Koshino (fashion designer) and joins in the arts and literary scene. In 1965, he discovers the work of German Surrealist Hans Bellmer through an article authored by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in the magazine “Shinfujin”, promptly abandoning his previous methods of doll-making to find his way as an artist, incorporating ball-joints into his dolls. Thereafter he becomes an admirer of Surrealism and immerses himself in the controversial Shibusawa's litterary works. In 1965, he also goes to see Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh Performance for the first time. In the late 60s—early 70s Yotsuya pursued a parallel career to his doll-making as an actor and member of Juro Kara's legendary underground theater company Jokyo Gekijo, Situation Theater, regularly portraying a female doll. He appears in the movie "Diary of a Shinjuku Thief" directed by Nagisa Oshima with the actors of the Situation Theater, but by 1971 he leaves the stage to concentrate on his own work. Simon exhibited at Expo 1970 in Osaka, the Tokyo Biennale in 1974 and by the end of the decade had opened his own doll-making school in Harajuku.
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), the author of the influential Bellmer article (and novelist, editor, art critic, and translator of Bataille and Marquis de Sade), become a life-long friend of Yotsuya's and his most important advocate, editing the first major book of Yotsuya's work, entitled Pygmalionisme, in 1985. Devastated by Shibusawa's death in 1987, Yotsuya found it impossible to work for nearly two years. He eventually found solace in the Eastern Orthodox Church and was inspired to make a series of angels, which he dedicated to Shibusawa, and straightforward images of Christ. Having carved out his own masterful and unique form of expression, today Yotsuya enjoys international renown as the first ball-jointed doll maker in Japan.

Very Good—Fine copy.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Junko Koshino Tatsumi Hijikata Kuniyoshi Kaneko Simon Yotsuya Toshihiro Asakura Taiji Aritai Yasuhiro Ishimoto Noriaki Kano Hajime Sawatari Bishin Jumonji Eiko Hosoe Koichi Miyazaki Ichiro Morita Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Oita City Art Museum / Oita Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare

S&M Aburoman
October 1980

1980, Japanese
Softcover, 326 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Nihon Shuppansha / Tokyo

$120.00 - In stock -

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Very rare first issue (October 1980) of S&M Aburoman ("the world of beautiful perverted romance that SM love makes"), featuring cover artwork by Toshio Saeki. Founded in October 1980 by Nihon Shuppansha and edited by Mitsuo Yasuda (who also created SM Club, alongside Oniroku Dan, Sotaro Aki, and Tadao Chigusa), S&M Aburoman was a short-lived SM magazine packed with fetish illustrations, artwork galleries, photographic features, stories, pin-up spreads, and articles exploring SM sexuality. Features contributions by Toshio Saeki, Oniroku Dan, Keizo Miyanishi, Kujuro Kujuro, Shinnosuke Ougi, Haruo Shinozaki, Juan Maeda, and many more. Double sided pin-up of Japanese actress Azuma Terumi.

Very Good copy, tanning and light cover wear.

File under: Toshio Saeki Tadao Chigusa Tadao Matasuoka Akira Kasuga Juan Maeda Mitsuo Yasuda Oniroku Dan Sotaro Aki Azuma Terumi Kujuro Kujuro Shinnosuke Ougi Haruo Shinozaki Keizo Miyanishi Nihon Shuppansha / Tokyo Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Out-of-print / Rare Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

S&M Aburoman
April 1981

1981, Japanese
Softcover, 326 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Nihon Shuppansha / Tokyo

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Rare April 1981 issue of S&M Aburoman ("the world of beautiful perverted romance that SM love makes"), featuring cover artwork by Toshio Saeki. Founded in October 1980 by Nihon Shuppansha and edited by Mitsuo Yasuda (who also created SM Club, alongside Oniroku Dan, Sotaro Aki, and Tadao Chigusa), S&M Aburoman was a short-lived SM magazine packed with fetish illustrations, artwork galleries, photographic features, stories, pin-up spreads, and articles exploring SM sexuality. Features contributions by Toshio Saeki, Tadao Chigusa, Tadao Matasuoka, Shinnosuke Ougi, Akira Kasuga, Juan Maeda, and many more.

Very Good copy, tanning and light cover wear.

File under: Toshio Saeki Tadao Chigusa Tadao Matasuoka Akira Kasuga Juan Maeda Mitsuo Yasuda Oniroku Dan Sotaro Aki Shinnosuke Ougi Nihon Shuppansha / Tokyo Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Periodicals Fetishism / BDSM Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Japanese Photography Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare

Kiyotaka Tsurisaki
Danse Macabre To The Hardcore Works

1996, Japanese
Hardcover (clothbound), 136 pages, 27 x 21.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by NG Publication / Tokyo

$600.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare, highly sought after first book, Danse Macabre To The Hardcore Works, by Japanese "corpse photographer" Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, published by NG Publication (imprint of editor Kotaro Kobayashi — Too Negative, Ultra Negative, ORG, etc.) in 1996 in an edition of 1000 copies. This deluxe clothbound hardcover volume contains an unwavering, unapologetic look at death, collecting Tsurisaki's first works (a three year survey) bound together in glossy full-colour. Most never before published, the book includes his first published photographs from the second issue of Kobayashi's Too Negative magazine. Since 1994, Japanese photographer, film director, and writer Kiyotaka Tsurisaki (b. 1966) has become known for prolifically photographing dead bodies; his images of death and conflict from global "hot-spots" earning him a reputation as a leading underground photographer. For Kiyotaka’s raw photo-journalistic practice he habitats disaster areas, accident sites and war zones, locations where society has collapsed to seek out and photograph man's ultimate taboo — death. Many of these people met with violent ends, whether by vehicle crash, homicide, or suicide. The images are stark, confronting, bleak and profound. Tsurisaki also brings the viewer into morgues and forensics labs, where the macabre work of embalming and autopsy is unapologetically documented. His work has led him from Fukoshima and Japan’s suicide forest Aokigahara, Thailand, Colombia, Mexico, Russia, and Palestine, as well as other lawless or war-torn parts of the world, to photograph human corpses. In El Cartucho, Bogota, Kiyotaka filmed the shockumentary Orozco The Embalmer (2001) — a now cult classic in its genre, alongside his Junk Films (2007) and Wasteland (2012). Tsurisaki has published several photo books and authored Book Of The Dead (2011), and The Dogs of the Nuclear War: A Chronicle Of The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (2017).

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: Kotaro Kobayashi Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Kotaro Kobayashi Kiyotaka Tsurisaki NG Publication / Tokyo Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare

JUNK FILMS
Directed by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki

2007, Japanese
DVD (90 mins)
Signed.,
Published by Uplink / Japan

$180.00 - Out of stock

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Signed copy of the original 2007 Japanese issue DVD of "corpse photographer", director and author Kiyotaka Tsurisaki's collection of short shockumentaries, Junk Films. Signed on the disc by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki.

"Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, the infamous Japanese death photographer and director of Orozco the Embalmer picks up his video camera and heads into the depths of Hell yet again. Junk Films is a collection of short shockumentaries filmed between the late 1990's and early 2000's, with footage including everything from disemboweled auto accident victims in Krung Thep, to the self mutilating participants of the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, and even footage of festering corpses in a Bogota landfill. 'Junk Films: The Collected Short Shockumentaries of Tsurisaki Kiyotaka' presents death with a sense of rawness and voyeurism. An unflinching look at the gruesome aftermath of combat, disasters, and accidents, this is like no other shockumentary you've ever seen."

As New copy with some wear to insert sheet, light rippling to back cover. Signed by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki on the disc.

File under: Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Corrupted Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Uplink / Japan Crime / Violence Japanese Photography Photography Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Signed Books

Organizer No. 1 — Kiyoshi Ikejiri
Spring 1994

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 178 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$120.00 - Out of stock

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A rare, special issue ORG photo book by Japanese fetish photographer Kiyoshi Ikejiri, published in 1994 by Too Negative's Kotaro Kobayashi. Ikejiri was a leading photographic contributor to all of Kobayashi's Eros and Thanatos-themed underground periodicals, and this might be his only exclusive photo book. Cover to cover with vivid reproductions of Ikejiri's experimental SM fetish photography of young Japanese and Western female models. Heavy with sadistic industrial, medical bondage themes.

ORG was a Japanese erotic fetish photo journal initiated and edited by Kotaro Kobayashi of affiliated periodicals such as Too Negative, Spiral, Schizo, etc. ORG was published between 1993 to 1997 by Tom Publication Inc. The magazine came into being while Kobayashi was working in N.Y.C. during the early to mid-nineties. Kobayashi wanted to re-ignite the dense air that had evaporated from the erotic book market in Japan. The first issue hit the streets April 1993 with Kotaro as editor-in-chief and photographer Kiyoshi Ikejiri by his side.    Kotaro Kobayashi’s ORG editorial template was also utilized for his cult mondo art gallery in photo magazine format, Too Negative. The most universal fact in life is “PAIN”. There are several kinships between the two prints, the only significant difference is the lack of concept ‘Thanatos’ - death - in ORG as seen in the aforementioned magazine’s printing of cadavers and bloodlust violence. Other than that, the two prints are of equal arresting power and manipulative corrupting sadism.

Very Good copy.

File under: Kiyoshi Ikejiri Kotaro Kobayashi Tom Shobo / Japan Japanese Photography Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Photography

SM King March 1974

1974, Japanese
Softcover, 306 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Taiyo books / Japan

$75.00 - In stock -

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March 1974 issue of SM KING, legendary Japanese SM magazine edited by Oniroku Dan (1931—2011), "the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan", published by Taiyo books between 1972—1974, with each issue featuring many colour and b/w photo features, illustrations, and fetish fiction. Regular contributors included actress Naomi Tani, Toshiyuki Suma, Norio Sugiura, Takashi Tsujimura, Yoji Muku, Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara), Tadao Chigusa and Juan Maeda. This issue featuring cover artwork by legendary erotic fantasy artist Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982), plus the work of Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara), Tadao Chigusa, Takashi Ishii, Aya Nakagawa, Shoji Oki, Oniroku Dan, and many many more. Super star actress Naomi Tani of Nikkatsu fame modeled for a handful of luxury SM King photo collections. Legendary artists Maeda Hisashiro, Tadao Chigusa, Yoji Muku, Yuzo Maeda and Toshiyuki Suma

Very Good copy with general wear/age.

File under: Toshiyuki Suma Takashi Tsujimura Yoji Muku Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara) Tadao Chigusa Juan Maeda Ran Akiyoshi Takashi Ishii Aya Nakagawa Shoji Oki Naomi Tani Norio Sugiura Oniroku Dan Taiyo books / Japan Periodicals Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

SM KING OCTOBER 1971

1971, Japanese
Softcover, 330 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Taiyo books / Japan

$75.00 - Out of stock

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October 1971 issue of SM KING, legendary Japanese SM magazine edited by Oniroku Dan (1931—2011), "the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan", published by Taiyo books between 1972—1974, with each issue featuring many colour and b/w photo features, illustrations, and fetish fiction. Regular contributors included actress Naomi Tani, Toshiyuki Suma, Norio Sugiura, Takashi Tsujimura, Yoji Muku, Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara), Tadao Chigusa and Juan Maeda. This issue featuring cover artwork by legendary erotic fantasy artist Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982), plus the work of Tadao Chigusa, Takashi Tsujimura, Akira Minomura, Mayami Yoshino, Oniroku Dan, and many many more.

Very Good copy. Light wear/age.

File under: Oniroku Dan Tadao Chigusa Takashi Tsujimura Akira Minomura Mayami Yoshino Naomi Tani Toshiyuki Suma Norio Sugiura Yoji Muku Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara) Juan Maeda Ran Akiyoshi Oniroku Dan Taiyo books / Japan Fetishism / BDSM Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

SM KITAN December 1975

1975, Japanese
Softcover, 274 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sun Publishing / Japan

$75.00 - In stock -

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SM Kitan December 1975 issue, featuring cover artwork by legendary erotic fantasy artist Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982). A cult classic of vintage Japanese BDSM and Kinbaku (Japanese bondage), SM Kitan was a leading SM magazine published by the great Sun Publishing house, and was formerly known as S&M Abuhunter (changing its name to SM Kitan from August 1975). Heavy with wonderful artwork galleries in colour and bw, glossy bondage photo-features, illustrated fetish fiction, manga, fold-outs, and much more. Ran Akiyoshi (1922–1982) illustrated many of the iconic covers, with regular contributors including Sotaro Aki, Tadao Chigusa, Namio Harukawa, Yoko Ozuma, Reiko Kita, Akiyoshi Akiyoshi, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Shoji Oki, Namio Harukawa, Akira Kasuga, and Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara).

Very Good copy. Light wear/age.

File under: Sotaro Aki Tadao Chigusa Namio Harukawa Yoko Ozuma Reiko Kita Akiyoshi Akiyoshi Hakuzan Shiraishi Shoji Oki Akira Kasuga Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara) Sun Publishing / Japan Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture

Fuzoku Kitan : Masochist Ecstasy
April 1962

1962, Japanese
Softcover, 190 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Bunken Shiryo Kankokai / Tokyo

$100.00 $80.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare early special "Masochist Ecstasy" issue of Fuzoku Kitan, an important Japanese SM magazine was published between 1960-1974, and edited by Hajime Takakura. Filled with SM stories and illustrations, along with colour and b/w gravure photographic kitan and fetish photoshoots and art galleries, the magazine published a wild array of subjects on sexual customs, especially a significant amount of western SM artists and material introduced to Japanese audiences and a great deal of queer sexuality. This issue from 1962 is probably one of the finest examples of this, featuring photographic spreads of Japanese and western male physique models, Japanese cross-dressers, Japanese and western female kinbaku/bondage photography, the "man, man, man, man's world!" feature of queer western romanesque illustration from George Quaintance, Tom of Finland, and others, illustrated cover article on Masochism, stories from Japanese cross-dressers, illustrated fiction of gay and lesbian SM stories, as well as lots of fem-dom, sodomy and sadophelia. Almost all articles under nom de plumes! Cover art by Tom of Finland.

Good copy, with edge wear and tanning from age. Binding great.

File under: Tom of Finland George Quaintance Bunken Shiryo Kankokai / Tokyo LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Japanese Photography Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées SALE

Fuzoku Kitan
March 1972

1972, Japanese
Softcover, 190 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Bunken Shiryo Kankokai / Tokyo

$45.00 $25.00 - Out of stock

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March 1972 issue of Fuzoku Kitan, an important Japanese SM magazine was published between 1960—1974, and edited by Hajime Takakura. Filled with SM stories and illustrations, along with colour and b/w gravure photographic kitan and fetish photoshoots and art galleries, the magazine published a wild array of subjects on sexual customs, especially a significant amount of queer and transgender sexuality, lots of cross-dressing, masochism, torture, sodomy, sadophelia and fem-dom material. Art gallery by master of kinbaku illustration Yoko Ozuma, equestrianism photography, lots of stories from Japanese cross-dressers, readers confessions, a treasure-trove of illustrated transgressive fiction, almost all articles under nom de plumes! Also, excellent ads.

VG—Good copy, with light cover/spine wear, tanning.

File under: Yoko Ozuma Bunken Shiryo Kankokai / Tokyo Periodicals Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Eros Out-of-print / Rare Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Japanese Photography SALE

Fuzoku Kitan
December 1972

1972, Japanese
Softcover, 190 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Bunken Shiryo Kankokai / Tokyo

$45.00 $25.00 - Out of stock

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December 1972 issue of Fuzoku Kitan, an important Japanese SM magazine was published between 1960—1974, and edited by Hajime Takakura. Filled with SM stories and illustrations, along with colour and b/w gravure photographic kitan and fetish photoshoots and art galleries, the magazine published a wild array of subjects on sexual customs, especially a significant amount of queer and transgender sexuality, lots of cross-dressing, masochism, torture, sodomy, sadophelia and fem-dom material. Photo features of Rope and Ecstasy and Sadist Breeding Male Slaves, studies on corporal punishment, stories from Japanese cross-dressers, readers confessions, a treasure-trove of illustrated transgressive fiction, almost all articles under nom de plumes! Also, excellent ads.

VG—Good copy, with light cover/spine wear, tanning.

File under: Bunken Shiryo Kankokai / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Fetishism / BDSM Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées SALE

S&M AbuHunter
February 1975

1975, Japanese
Softcover, 272 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sun Publishing / Japan

$70.00 - In stock -

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February 1975 issue of S&M AbuHunter, the legendary cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1974—1975, before being re-titled SM Kitan to carry on the magazine's highest quality of bondage arts publishing. Founded by Yutaka Nohara (also of SM Kitan), the short-lived S&M AbuHunter featured the vibrant cover paintings of Japanese illustrator Ao Fujimoto (b. 1947) and major contributing roles from masters of SM culture Toshiyuki Suma (Reiko Kita) and Dan Oniroku, Tadao Chigusa, Yoko Ozuma, Namio Harukawa, Shoji Ishizuka, Wataru Oki, Shiro Kasamatsu, Bill Ward, Joji Fukushima, Iku Fujimi, Akira Kito, and so many more. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s, carried on by SM Kitan, each issue of S&M AbuHunter included a perfect combination of colour and b/w bondage photo features, fetish fiction illustrated with hundreds of artworks, manga stories, articles and a stunning selection of the most talented bondage artwork galleries. Beautifully designed with printing on many various paper-stocks, finishes, and fold-out spreads. This issue includes a special bound-in 4-page booklet of early Namio Harukawa colour illustrations you'll never see anywhere else.

Very Good copy.

File under: Toshiyuki Suma Reiko Kita Dan Oniroku Tadao Chigusa Yoko Ozuma Namio Harukawa Shoji Ishizuka Wataru Oki Shiro Kasamatsu Joji Fukushima Iku Fujimi Akira Kito Bill Ward Dan Oniroku Toshiyuki Suma Reiko Kita Sun Publishing / Japan Periodicals Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Japanese Photography Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare

S&M AbuHunter
November 1974

1974, Japanese
Softcover, 275 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sun Publishing / Japan

$70.00 - In stock -

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November 1974 issue of S&M AbuHunter, the legendary cult pioneering Japanese kinbaku magazine published monthly by Sun Publishing from 1974—1975, before being re-titled SM Kitan to carry on the magazine's highest quality of bondage arts publishing. Founded by Yutaka Nohara (also of SM Kitan), the short-lived S&M AbuHunter featured the vibrant cover paintings of Japanese illustrator Ao Fujimoto (b. 1947) and major contributing roles from masters of SM culture Toshiyuki Suma (Reiko Kita) and Dan Oniroku, Tadao Chigusa, Yoko Ozuma, Namio Harukawa, Shoji Ishizuka, Wataru Oki, Shiro Kasamatsu, Bill Ward, Joji Fukushima, Iku Fujimi, Akira Kito, and so many more. One of the finest examples of SM publishing in Japan in the 1970s, carried on by SM Kitan, each issue of S&M AbuHunter included a perfect combination of colour and b/w bondage photo features, fetish fiction illustrated with hundreds of artworks, manga stories, articles and a stunning selection of the most talented bondage artwork galleries. Beautifully designed with printing on many various paper-stocks, finishes, and fold-out spreads. This issue includes a special feature of readers submitted fetish illustrations you'll never see anywhere else.

Very Good copy.

File under: Yoko Ozuma Wataru Oki Toshiyuki Suma Reiko Kita Dan Oniroku Tadao Chigusa Namio Harukawa Shoji Ishizuka Shiro Kasamatsu Joji Fukushima Iku Fujimi Akira Kito Bill Ward Dan Oniroku Toshiyuki Suma Reiko Kita Sun Publishing / Japan Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Hiroshi Maruyama
BACKS

1997 , Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 20 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Bunkasha / Japan

$100.00 - In stock -

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Rare first edition of Japanese photographer Hiroshi Maruyama's BACKS collection, published by Bunkasha in 1997. Cover-to-cover sultry studio fetish photography of female nudes and semi-nudes photographed from behind in beautiful heavy-grain colour and b/w photography, at times reminiscent of the work of Carlo Mollino, Araki, or even Irina Ionesco with a heavy crushed velvet 1990s erotic thriller atmosphere. A must for any bottom or leg enthusiast, or even women's garment fetishist (lots of stockings, socks, and heels). A very little known and rare Japanese title.

Very Good with dust jacket and obi-strip.

File under: Hiroshi Maruyama Bunkasha / Japan Eros Fetishism / BDSM Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Nobuyoshi Araki
Polanography

2021, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 13 x 19 cm
Published by Innen Books / Zürich

$18.00 - In stock -

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Nobuyoshi Araki's "Polanography" zine, published by Innen Books, Zürich, in 2021. First Edition.

Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940. Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous Xeroxed Photo Albums, which he produced in limited editions and sent to friends, art critics, and people selected randomly from the telephone book. Over the years, his bold, unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a great deal of controversy and censorship (especially in his native Japan), a fact that has not fazed the artist nor diminished his influence. Celebrated the world-over as one of Japan's leading, most original photographers, to date Araki has published over 400 books of his work.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Innen Books / Zürich Eros Japanese Photography Photography Fetishism / BDSM Art

Libertin DUNE No.2
(Gus Van Sant / "ART IN THE STREETS")

2011, Japanese / English
Softcover, 240 pages, 30 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Days / Tokyo

$55.00 $25.00 - Out of stock

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Second issue of DUNE Libertin, Japanese fashion and culture magazine following DUNE Quarterly, edited by the legendary Fumihiro Hayashi, re-launched for the new millennium, and as much a time-capsule of the 00s as Quarterly was of the 90s. With cover artwork by Gus Van Sant, other features in this issue include Mark Gonzales, Barry Mcgee, Momoko Ando, 111 Boadrum (Boredoms), Jeffrey Deitch, Mario Sorrenti, Ari Marcopoulos, Spike Jonze, Shepard Fairey, Hiromix, Liz Goldwyn, Aaron Rose, Punk Is Still Alive (w. Mike Watt — SST, Minutemen, Firehose), Rodarte, Chikashi Suzuki, Oliver Zahm (Purple), Tomoo Gokita, and much much more.

Very Good copy with small scuff to spine edge.

File under: Minutemen Yamantaka Eye Boredoms Gus Van Sant Mark Gonzales Barry Mcgee Momoko Ando Mario Sorrenti Ari Marcopoulos Spike Jonze Shepard Fairey Hiromix Oliver Zahm Tomoo Gokita Chikashi Suzuki Jeffrey Deitch Aaron Rose Art Days / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Counterculture Film / Video Japanese Photography Photography Fashion SALE

DUNE (Quarterly) No.10 (Chloë Sevigny)
Summer 1996

1996, English
Softcover, 136 pages, 22.5 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Days / Tokyo

$200.00 - Out of stock

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Special Summer 1996 10th issue of DUNE, featuring the iconic Chloë Sevigny cover styled by Andrew Richardson and shot by Terry Richardson. Rare and most sought-after issue of this Japanese fashion and culture magazine, edited by the legendary Fumihiro Hayashi, with the theme of "REALITY", encapsulating the "realism" of 1990's new fashion photography and anti-fashion aesthetic, including a huge photo feature of Chloë by Richardson, Hysteric Glamor shot by David Sorrenti, Prada does Palm Springs by Takashi Homma, Baby Generation by Takashi Homma, featuring Sofia Coppola, Kim Gordon, Ione Skye, Tamra Davis and Karen Klimnik, Walter Van Beirendonck, photography by Sofia Coppola, Shingo Wakagi, Katsumi Omori, Masashi Sanai, Fujio Saimon, Gregory Crewdson, Masashi Ohashi, plus Visionaire, Hiroshi Tanabe, Hunter S. Thompson, ads for X-Girl, Milk Fed, Paul Smith... a rare (even in Japan) time capsule and distant memory of the Genki days of the bookshop building.

Very Good copy.

File under: Terry Richardson Takashi Homma Sofia Coppola Kim Gordon X-Girl Milk Fed Shingo Wakagi Katsumi Omori Masashi Sanai Fujio Saimon Gregory Crewdson Masashi Ohashi Hunter S. Thompson Fumihiro Hayashi Art Days / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Fashion Film / Video Photography Japanese Photography

Nobuyoshi Araki
Erotos (The Works of Nobuyoshi Araki 16)

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 192 pages, 15 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Heibonsha / Tokyo

$140.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of one of the finest of Araki's photo books, dedicated entirely to his incredible Erotos series. Published as part of the Complete Works collection, in this work, controversial and legendary Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki makes a radical departure from his usual portraits and cityscapes. A collection of arrestingly primal close-ups of parts of the body as well as various objects—pipes, fruit, wet sidewalks, flowers, snails—Erotos delves deep into the erotic subconscious. Reproduced in gorgeous glossy duotone and bound in the original jacket and publisher's obi-strip (not pictured). One our favourite bodies of work by Araki.

Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940. Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous Xeroxed Photo Albums, which he produced in limited editions and sent to friends, art critics, and people selected randomly from the telephone book. Over the years, his bold, unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a great deal of controversy and censorship (especially in his native Japan), a fact that has not fazed the artist nor diminished his influence. To date, Araki has published over 400 books of his work.

Very Good in VG dust jacket and obi.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Heibonsha / Tokyo Eros Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art

Le Sang et La Rose No. 1, 1968

1968, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 1 (1968) sets the scene perfectly, opening with Japanese author Yukio Mishima depicted as Saint Sebastian by photographer Kishin Shinoyama in a pictorial feature "Les Morts Masculines", a photographic homage to Georges Bataille that also features the photography of Eikoh Hosoe, Ikkō Narahara, Masahisa Fukase, and Osamu Hayasaki, with models including Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, actor Akira Mita, author Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, actor Jin Nakayama, playwright Jūrō Kara, and others. Other features include " All Japanese are Perverse" — stories by Japanese writers including Yukio Mishima, Taruho Inagaki, Yutaka Haniya, Shinji Sōya; Henry Miller's letters to Anais Nin; a colour gallery of artwork by Belgian painter Paul Delvaux; articles on Vampire fantasy in the arts (including many original illustrations; Witches (illustrated by James Ensor); Oriental Eros, Ancient Indian poetry; Kama Sutra; female bi-sexuality; the history of gay (Danshoku) theatre in Japan; the full-colour art gallery "Masturbation Machine", featuring avant-garde artists Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Masuo Ikeda, Setsu Nagasawa, Carlos Marchioli, Kuniyoshi Kaneko, Masakazu Horiuchi, Tadanori Yokoo, Koji Suzuki, Tommy Ungerer; the fully illustrated museum supplement "Pain and Pleasure : On Torture" by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history; pornographic stories by Guillaume Apollinaire and Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (who coined the term "Pornographer"); fiction by Pierre Morion (pseudo. André Pieyre de Mandiargues); critic Jin'ichi Uekusa on the controversial writings of Roger Peyrefitte, illustrations by Ernst, Bellmer, Labisse, Fini, Lam, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Good copy with some spine damage and tanning/wear.

File under: Max Ernst Léonor Fini Felix Labisse Wilfredo Lam Hans Bellmer Paul Delvaux Natsuyuki Nakanishi Masuo Ikeda Setsu Nagasawa Carlos Marchioli Kuniyoshi Kaneko Masakazu Horiuchi Tadanori Yokoo Koji Suzuki Tommy Ungerer Tatsumi Hijikata Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Eikoh Hosoe Ikkō Narahara Masahisa Fukase Osamu Hayasaki Kishin Shinoyama James Ensor Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Jin'ichi Uekusa Roger Peyrefitte Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Yutaka Haniya Shinji Sōya Henry Miller Suehiro Tanemura Guillaume Apollinaire Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne Jūrō Kara Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Fiction / Poetry Japanese Photography Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Photography Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Le Sang et La Rose No. 2, 1969

1969, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 2 includes photographic features by Yasuhiro Yoshioka and Yoshihiro Tatsuki, the artwork of French decorator of department store mannequins and surrealist Sunday painter Clovis Trouille, Venus in Furs erotic photo shoot by Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Yokoo Tadanori, Hans Bellmer, Leonor Fini, Alberto Martini, Félicien Rops, Rene Magritte, an incredible feature "Machine for Murder" with art by Hiroshi Nakamura, Tomi Ungerer, Koichi Tanigawa, Osamu Tsukasa, Tatsuo Ikeda, Marcel Duchamp, Seiichi Horiuchi, and others, an article on the erotica of Ukiyo-e with a fold-out colour three panel poster, the fully illustrated museum supplement on Demonology by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history, texts by Apollinaire, Burroughs, Mutsuo Takahashi, articles on laws pertaining to homosexuality, Kama Sutra, shoe fetishism, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Very Good copy. Light general tanning/wear.

File under: Yoshihiro Tatsuki Clovis Trouille Tadanori Yokoo Yasuhiro Yoshioka Yokoo Tadanori Hans Bellmer Leonor Fini Alberto Martini Félicien Rops Rene Magritte Hiroshi Nakamura Tomi Ungerer Koichi Tanigawa Osamu Tsukasa Tatsuo Ikeda Marcel Duchamp Seiichi Horiuchi Yasuhiro Ishimoto Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Georges Bataille Mutsuo Takahashi Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Periodicals Eros LGBTQ+ Art Surrealism Counterculture Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Philosophy Fiction / Poetry Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Ancient / Medieval / Gothic