Takashi Tsujimura (辻村隆)

Takashi Tsujimura (辻村隆), 1921–1987, was a Japanese nawashi in the Nureki lineage.

Era: 1970s

NAWASHI · WRITER

Credited with establishing modern Kinbaku Art. Active as a kinbakushi for virtually the entire run of Kitan Club magazine; contributed historical dramas in its pulp era plus countless articles, stories and reports. Took over as Kitan Club's main kinbakushi after Toshiyuki Suma left in 1953. In a translated 1976 interview he called meeting Tanako Kawabata formative and described exploring many forms of kinbaku with and photographing her. Created series like 'The True Face of Bondage Models' (1955) and 'SM Camera Hunt' (1964–73), establishing 'SM kinbaku as a practice'. In 1968 he crossed into commercial film work as the bondage adviser for Teruo Ishii's History of Tokugawa Female Punishment, then wrote about the experience in Kitan Club. Together with Oniroku Dan, a driving force in the late-1960s/early-1970s SM boom. The term 'Nawashi' is believed to have been first used by him in Kitan Club in the 1950s; he and author Minomura Kou coined the term 'Kinbaku' itself in the May–June 1952 issue of Kitan Club.

School: Nureki lineage

Collaborators: Aoki Junko, Kawabata Tanako.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Kitan Club.