Kinbaku no Bi, Kinbaku no Etsuraku 緊縛の美・緊縛の悦楽
Nureki Chimuo's 1999 paperback on the appeal of kinbaku, built around photographs of his work and first-person accounts by women drawn to rope.
Kinbaku no Bi, Kinbaku no Etsuraku (“The Beauty of Bondage, the Pleasure of Bondage”) is a paperback by Nureki Chimuo published by Kawade Shobō Shinsha in May 1999. The National Diet Library records it at 304 pages in the Kawade Bunko series; the publisher’s current listing gives 312 pages under its Kawade i-Bunko imprint.
The publisher describes it as a book in which a leading figure of kinbaku explains what draws people to it, organized around some 150 bondage photographs and frank first-person accounts by women who love being tied. The publisher’s author note, the same text it uses on its page for Kinbaku: Inochi Aru Kagiri, presents him as a Tokyo-born editor of SM magazines such as Uramado, a prolific writer under several pen names and a rope tier who had tied more than 4,000 women for photo and video shoots, and lists this book first among his many titles.
The historian Kawahara Azumi offers context for books of this kind. From 1972 Nureki tied for the bondage photo spreads of many SM magazines and later made several hundred bondage videos, and Kawahara writes that the visual image of kinbaku he created had an immeasurable influence on contemporary rope culture. Kawahara also stresses that Nureki called himself a “shibari-gakari” (the person in charge of the tying) rather than a bakushi or kinbakushi.