Nureki Chimuo 濡木痴夢男

Nureki Chimuo was the best-known name of Iida Toyoichi, a Japanese writer, magazine editor and rope tier. Nawapedia gives his birth as 1930 in Asakusa, Tokyo. The historian Kawahara Azumi, whose 2021 article surveys six decades of his work, describes him as a prolific postwar author, an editor of many SM magazines and, from the 1970s, the man who tied and directed a very large number of bondage photo shoots and adult videos. He also wrote plays and sometimes acted in them.

Writer and editor

Kawahara traces his first story in Kitan Club to the November 1953 issue, published under one of his many pen names. He later joined the Tokyo publisher Kubo Shoten and became editor-in-chief of its magazine Uramado in January 1962, succeeding Suma Toshiyuki (Minomura Kō). After Uramado closed in early 1965 he edited its successor, Suspense Magazine. In 1969 he left Kubo Shoten with Suma and the illustrator Muku Yōji, and in 1970 the three launched the magazine Abumento, which lasted six issues.

Rope tier

From 1972 Iida tied models for the bondage photo features of magazines such as SM Fan and SM Select, at first stepping in when Suma stopped working for SM Select. Kawahara notes that the name Nureki Chimuo first appeared on a shoot report in the February 1973 issue of SM Select. By 1979–80 his work notes record eleven to thirteen shoots a month, alongside heavy writing. He began working in adult video in 1982.

In October 1985 he held a small gathering of rope enthusiasts that, from February 1986, took the name Kinbaku-bi Kenkyūkai, usually shortened to Kinbiken. It met monthly, issued the newsletter Kinbiken Tsūshin from 1989 to 1999, and produced its own videos. He appears with Yukimura Haruki and Arisue Gō in the 2007 documentary Bakushi, and Shibari Dojo names Naka Akira as his best-known disciple.

Legacy as a witness

Iida published several memoirs of postwar publishing, including a 2004 book on the artists of Kitan Club. Kawahara treats him as a valuable witness but warns that his version of Kitan Club history was the story he wanted to tell: he was only a contributor to that magazine and repeated what Suma and others told him. Kawahara also notes his effort to present bondage as something separate from violence against women.

He collapsed in August 2013 and died on September 9 that year, aged 83.