Iida Toyoichi (Nureki Chimuo) shi no Kiseki to sono Shigoto 飯田豊一（濡木痴夢男）氏の軌跡とその仕事：新出インタビュー原稿によせて

This article by Kawahara Azumi, who researches sadism and masochism in postwar Japan, appeared in Ritsumeikan Bungaku, the humanities journal of Ritsumeikan University, number 674 (July 2021, pages 14–53; DOI 10.34382/0002003261). Its English title is “The Work and Life of Iida Toyokazu / Nureki Chimuo: On the Occasion of the Publication of a Newly Found Interview Manuscript.” That abstract romanizes the given name as Toyokazu; the National Diet Library’s author record reads 飯田豊一 as Iida Toyoichi, the form used here.

The core is a set of five interviews that Kuroda Akira, a member of the Shinseinen research society, held with Iida between 2009 and 2013. Kuroda had edited them into dialogue form; the recordings are lost. They are separate from the book-length interview published by Ronsōsha in 2013 and cover Kitan Club, Uramado, Suspense Magazine and their publisher Kubo Shoten. Kawahara notes that Iida confirms in them that Murakami Nobuhiko wrote in Kitan Club as Azuma Shin, which she had shown in 2016.

In her overview Kawahara argues that Iida made the wish to be tied, above all women’s wish, visible, pointing to the accounts women gave in the Kinbiken bulletin. She stresses that he refused titles such as kinbakushi or bakushi and called himself only the person in charge of tying, kept his distance from rope as stage art, and insisted that rope had value of its own rather than serving only as an aid to sex. She dates the founding of the Kinbaku-bi Kenkyūkai (Kinbiken) to 1986 and its bulletin to 1989–1999.

The English abstract adds a caution for researchers: Iida wrote his memoirs as narrative rather than as an attempt at objective record, so he should be read as a writer and not only as a witness.