S&M Collector S&Mコレクター
SM magazine launched in December 1972 by Sun Shuppan, started by a former Tokyo Sanseisha editor, with Suma Toshiyuki tying for its photo shoots.
S&M Collector (also cited as SM Collector) was an SM magazine published by Sun Shuppan. The historian Kawahara Azumi dates its launch to December 1972, with a first issue dated January 1973.
Its origin, as Kawahara reconstructs it from the memoir of SM Select staff member Senda Hiroshi, was a split at Tokyo Sanseisha. The editor Miyasaka (宮坂信) left that company abruptly and started S&M Collector as a direct rival, with Suma Toshiyuki (Minomura Kō), who had been tying for SM Select’s bondage shoots, on his side. Senda felt that the new magazine used exactly the same illustrators, novelists and photographers as SM Select. He also recalled that Suma now brought new cotton rope to SM Select shoots while keeping hemp for Collector, which is why SM Select turned to Iida Toyoichi to tie.
Iida wrote for the new magazine as well: Kawahara links a story in its first issue to a day in October 1972 when Miyasaka called him in to write on the spot, and later shoot reports appeared there under one of his pen names. Dan Oniroku’s official chronology lists “Collector” among the magazines he was writing for in the late 1970s.