Kawabata Tanako (川端多奈子)
Kawabata Tanako (川端多奈子) is a Japanese model.
Era: 1950s
MODEL · WRITER
Early postwar Japanese Kitan Club model and writer publicly known by the model name Kawabata Tanako / 川端多奈子. Born in Matsuyama, Shikoku, she moved to Osaka and worked as a trading-company clerk before becoming a recurring model in 1952. In a March 1955 Kitan Club profile, Takashi Tsujimura says he tied her more often than any other model and dates the beginning of their composed bondage photography to mid-June 1952. She documented in both 1953 Utsukushiki Imashime volumes, contributed diary-like essays and reader correspondence, and took part in Kitan Club's September 1953 roundtable on women's experiences of being tied. Tsujimura again remembered their work together as formative in a 1976 interview.
Sources
- Nawapedia: Tanako Kawabata catalogue record
- Nawapedia: Utsukushiki Imashime catalogue record
- Kinbaku Today: Kawabata Tanako, an Early Model and Voice of Postwar Japanese Bondage Culture catalogue record
- Kinbaku Today: Clouds, then Rain — From a Torn Diary (Part One) catalogue record
- Kinbaku Today: The Quality of Bondage Models (1955 translation) catalogue record
- Suruga-ya: Kitan Club January 1954 catalogue record
- Suruga-ya: Kitan Club August 1954 catalogue record
- Kinbaku Books: Tsujimura Takashi Interview in Sankei Weekly (1976) catalogue record
- Nawapedia: Takashi Tsujimura catalogue record
- Nawapedia: Kitan Club catalogue record
Collaborators: Takashi Tsujimura, Tsukamoto Tetsuzo.
Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Kitan Club.