«Terminal Body Play».
Masami Akita aka noise musician MERZBOW’s look at abnormal (I charge this term in the most positive sense) esoteric subculture. The book disseminate in-depth and obscure knowledge from ancient cultures to secretive subcultures. In text and illustration it unfold an international perspective that reflects a Japanese as well as Western experience, history and iconography. The title covers a wide range of subjects from body modification, bondage and paraphilia, medicine and anatomy via early 20th Century medical photography, to the the aesthetics of murder and death.
Content:
New Tribalism In Sexual City, Prick Up, Rubbers, Gay Fetishism, Consensual SM, Modern Primitives, Pre-Tech Tattoo, Fakir Musafar, Ignore the White Culture, Body Manipulation, Hyper Pornography, Harrison Marks, Allen Jones, She-Male, Mannequin, Kinbaku, Seppuku, Kyoko Hamura, Rightbrain, Trevor Brown, Roman Slocombe, Medical Art, Forest Of Guts, Auto Erotic, J. P. Witkin, Anatomic Images, Discipline, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkoglar, Aktion, Meat Performance, Trans-Gender, Transmutation, John Gacy, Ed Gain, Death.
Biography:
Born in Tokyo in 1956. He is a graduate of Tamagawa University, with majors in painting and art theory.. Masami Akita - also known as the worldwide recognized noise musician Merzbow - first debuted as a writer in 1988 with the book «The Anagram of Perversion: Peripheral Pornography Theater». He has since then published numerous titles and written texts for contemporary journals on motifs such as: Music and subculture. «Terminal Body Play» is Akita’s sixth published book. Further titles by the author are in selection: «Noise War: Noise 10 Years» (1992), «The History Of Japanese Bondage Photography Volume 1» (1992), «Body Exotica: Sexual Atrocity» (1993).
First edition
Hardbound book with textured color dust jacket
Japanese language
Format: 13,7 cm x 19,4 cm
228 pages
Published by Seikyusha Publishing, 1993.
Price: 85,- Euro + shipping.
«Modern Sexual Bizarre: The Study Of Japanese Abnormality».
The title written by Masami Akita aka Merzbow, is an in-depth study of Japanese abnormality, its origins as well as the era and culture of ‘Ero-Guro Nonsense’ - a period ranging from the end of the Taisho era (July 30th 1912 - December 25th 1926) to the beginning of the Showa era (December 25th 1926 - January 7th 1989). Akita discuss the history of sexual media, the modern era of the bizarre to for instance Japanese sexuality. He further illuminate us on the abnormality magazines such as the ero-guro magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents) and active personalities such as the aforementioned print’s now legend editor Kitaaki Umehara - to for instance artist and writer Kiyoshi Sakai (see Kitan Club magazine covers 1950s - 1960s), and examines history and then contemporary Japan via their eyes.
Content:
1 Dawn of metamorphosis research ── Kokyo Nakamura and metamorphosis psychology 2 Hokumei Umehara and grotesque fashion ── Pioneer of modern eroticism 3 Grotesque party fighters ── Shozo Saito and Kiyoshi Sakai 4 Showa hunting modern era ── “Ahead Picture Book” 5 Modern Female Beauty Era ── Modern Girl’s Body 6 Criminal Science and the World of Bizarre Punishment Performing Arts ── “Modern Criminal Science Complete Works” and Haruame Ito 7 Pervert Psychology and Women ── Women’s View and Criminal Psychology in the Early Showa Period Gaku 8 Postwar sexual management and marital theory ── Marital life and sexual media postscript.
Biography:
Born in Tokyo in 1956. He is a graduate of Tamagawa University, with majors in painting and art theory.. Masami Akita - also known as the worldwide recognized noise musician Merzbow - first debuted as a writer in 1988 with the book «The Anagram of Perversion: Peripheral Pornography Theater». He has since then published numerous titles and written texts for contemporary journals on motifs such as: Music and subculture. «Modern Sexual Bizarre: The study of Japanese Abnormality» is Akita’s ninth published book. Further titles by the author are in selection: «Noise War: Noise 10 Years» (1992), «The History Of Japanese Bondage Photography Volume 1» (1992), «Body Exotica: Sexual Atrocity» (1993).
First edition
Hardbound book with color dust jacket plus inlays
Japanese language
Format: 13,6 cm x 19,4 cm
212 pages
Published by Seikyusha Publishing, 1994.
Price: 85,- Euro + shipping.
«The History Of Japanese Bondage Photography Volume 1».
Masami Akita aka noise musician Merzbow is for the uninitiated also a bondage fanatic and long time collector of rare SM books and magazines. «The History Of Japanese Bondage Photography» is a comprehensive book regarding the history of kinbaku that has been developed with legends kinbakushi Chimuo Nureki and photographer Akio Fuji in advisor capacity. Even today, the title at hand remain one of the most in-depth encyclopedias about SM - its practitioners and models, magazines, photography and art. Akita, who regard Nureki as his teacher, charts the timeline from post-war Tokyo and influential master artist Itoh Seiu’s torture shibari through Toshiyuki Suma aka Minomura Kou’s rich career in Kitan Club, S&M Collector — and well into the 1990s and Chimuo Nureki’s contemporary evolved kinbaku to magazine editorial work with Kommunication.
This luxurious 324 page SM tome, published in 1996, is a beautiful photo book and visual library that contain over 300 black and white original images, now scanned to high resolution. The visual material is mostly supplied by company Office Fuji Kikaku and Chimuo Nureki, and stems from private collections and the vast photography archive of key SM magazine Uramado - which both Toshiyuki Suma and Nureki edited. Uramado was active from 1956 to 1965. Suma was after Kitan Club engaged as co-editor and later editor in chief between 1956-1961; while Chimuo was editor in chief 1962-1965. In addition to desk work for Uramado, Suma was also the house kinbakushi - an assignment he continued with until the magazine seized operations. Many of the photographs in this book are previously unpublished, while a handful of others may be recognizable to some from Kommunication and Uramado. However, the latter magazine selections appear in seemingly full unedited size compared to the images seen in the 1960s print. The book also include a large and important section of bondage photography from the godfather of Japanese kinbaku: Itoh Seiu. The texts and commentary are written by Masami Akita, who channel insights and anecdotes from our two advisors SM-careers that dates back to the early 1950s. A selection of images from «The History Of Japanese Bondage Photography» are featured in the Merzbow documentary film: «Beyond Ultra Violence - Uneasy Listening By Merzbow» (1998).
Masami Akita and Chimuo Nureki have also collaborated on the 1990s SM-harakiri film series «Kinbaku» - and titles such as «Kinbiken» and «Shitsuraku-en».
First edition
Hardbound book in hardbound slipcase
Japanese language
Format: 16 cm x 23,4 cm x 3,4 cm
324 pages
Published by Bibliotheca Nocturna, 1996.
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