The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage
Midori's illustrated book on Japanese rope bondage from Greenery Press, credited as the earliest English-language guide to the subject.
The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage is a book by Midori, a Kyoto-born sex educator and author based in San Francisco, published by Greenery Press. A bookseller listing gives 10 January 2001 as the publication date, while the bibliography in English Wikipedia’s article on Midori lists the book under 2002.
According to English Wikipedia, no earlier book in English had taught Japanese rope bondage. The publisher’s description, as reproduced by the bookseller, presents Japanese rope bondage as an art shaped by centuries of martial and erotic practice, ranging from decorative to strictly restrictive work, and describes the book’s format: each chapter opens with a color photograph of a finished pose, followed by text and line drawings.
The photographs are by Craig Morey, who is credited on the Italian translation, La seducente arte del bondage giapponese (Airone, 2002), held by the National Diet Library. This entry describes the book as a publication and does not reproduce its instructions.