Kinbaku: Inochi Aru Kagiri 緊縛★命あるかぎり
Nureki Chimuo's 2008 paperback of reflections on his life in rope, cited by historian Kawahara Azumi as typical of his mix of fact and fiction.
Kinbaku: Inochi Aru Kagiri (“Bondage, As Long As I Live”) is a paperback by Nureki Chimuo published in May 2008 in Kawade Shobō Shinsha’s Kawade i-Bunko series; the National Diet Library records it at 301 pages, against the 304 given by the publisher, and writes the title with a middle dot instead of the star the publisher uses.
The publisher’s blurb, written in lush sensual language, presents it as an account of Nureki’s feelings about rope and of his days spent tying. It is one of a group of late memoir-style books he published with the same house.
The historian Kawahara Azumi singles out this book, together with Jitsuroku Shibari to Seme (2001) and Sei no Hihon: Seme to Yuetsu (2003), as typical of Nureki’s method: he wrote invented or embellished scenes as if they were fact, leaving the line between the two deliberately unclear. Kawahara suggests the approach was natural for subjects that required discretion toward the real models involved, but warns that such books should not be mined for facts without checking.