Following our recent interview with kinbaku rope master Steve Osada, we were interested to read this interview with a very different kind of rope artist, Hajime Kinoko, in Tokyo Weekender last month.
Kinoko notes that he prefers shibari to kinbaku to describe his style of rope bondage, regarding the latter as about emotional exchange with a model during a session, and the former as more general.
Kinoko is known for his high-profile collaborations and more artistic style, which may involve tying a model to an object like a motorcycle.
"I am actually closer to an artisan, like a chef," ...
Was this inevitable? Everything seems to be getting in on the non-fungible tokens boom, which has now reached the Japanese adult industry.
The legendary shibari (kinbaku) rope bondage artist Hajime Kinoko is going sell an NFT of the latest entry in his "red" series of bondage images -- his first NFTs release and his first all-digital addition to the series.
The project is organized in partnership with Zak Shibuya of Reality Production Management (RPM Tokyo), which is planning an Instagram launch event and charity event to accompany the NFT.
It's another first for renowned Hajime Kinoko: ...
Tama Toys has established itself as the Japanese mainstream adult brand whose catalog offers plenty of rewards for people with a panchira fetish. If you like upskirting, that tantalizing glimpse of a woman's underwear (especially when it's a cute Japanese schoolgirl), Tama Toys has plenty of items for you.
Like Magic Eyes and Toy's Heart, Tama Toys is also known for investing in fantastic box art with talented hentai illustrators. This is perhaps particularly notable among its series of dakimakura covers like the bestselling, long-running Insert Air Pillow series, which showcase the art on ...
We have been recently exploring the incredible erotic art of Namio Harukawa (春川ナミオ).
Harukawa specializes in femdom fetish art, especially facesitting, portrayed through amazing female characters with huge hips, thighs, and buttocks. If you want to see guys smothered by phatt asses, this is the world for you.
Here is just a small sampling of his awesome creations.
An anthology of his art, Garden of Domina, has been published bilingually. Though now in his seventies, Harukawa continues to hold exhibitions regularly, such as Vanilla Gallery, a bastion of fetish art in ...
You know your adult toys are good when even your box art is so popular it merits a book.
Tama Toys is not only one of Japan's most successful sex toy brands, it has inspired its own kind of subculture or fandom thanks to its use of hentai illustrations for its box artwork. The maker hires some of the best adult illustrators in Japan to produce the characters and images that adorn those awesome onaholes, lubes, otoko no ko costumes, and hug pillow covers.
One of the most popular illustrators is Yukinon and Tama Toys is obviously very pleased with his contributions -- so much so that they ...
Running until tomorrow (November 8th), if you're in Tokyo and like your kawaii-bondage fetish art, then you should definitely check out this collaborative exhibition by Trevor Brown and Nanano at span art gallery. Admission is free.
Trevor Brown is a British artist based in Japan who explores various paraphilias and sexual subcultures in his work. His first exhibition in Japan was way back in 1995, so he's something of an established force on the fetish scene. He calls his style "baby art", which sounds like something illegal but actually is a "new artistic direction combining cute images ...
Artist Tatsuya Yamasaki has created a knowing artwork provocatively called Hentai in which he paints a picture using his penis as a ersatz brush.
We don't know if his YouTube video, published a month ago, will get taken down but here are some grabs. The video is a kind of time-lapse affair, with footage from different angles speeded up.
This is not parody or plain silliness. Yamasaki, who would appear to be of Japanese descent but who is from and lives in Australia, is very serious, as his artist statement reveals.
Here is the video description:
Japan: whilst there is a ...
Currently showing at Tokyo's most reliable venue for erotica, Vanilla Gallery, until February 2nd, Yoshifumi Hayashi's work is just plain awesome and the whole planet needs to know about it.
From defecating ladies to octopus vaginas, Hayashi's visionary world is both strange and beautiful.
He was born in 1948 and went to Paris in 1976, where he taught himself to ...
