Oniroku Dan (団鬼六), 1931–2011, was a Japanese writer in the Nureki lineage.
1931–2011
Era: 1970s
WRITER · PUBLISHER
Born Yukihiko Kuroiwa on 16 April 1931 in Shiga Prefecture; died 6 May 2011 from oesophageal cancer at 80. Authored some 120 works of erotic SM fiction, about 50 of which were adapted into films. 1950s English-language TV translator (incl. Alfred Hitchcock Presents); 1960s junior-high English teacher who wrote pink-film scripts under the pseudonym 'Matsugorō Kuroiwa'. His novel 'Flower and Snake' (Hana to Hebi) made him famous; works appeared in Kitan Club, Fuzoku Club, Uramado, Abu Hunter. Founded the SM magazine 'SM King' (1972–74). Closed his desk in the early 1990s for a failed business venture, returned ~10 years later with the autobiography 'The Flower Must Be Crimson'. Long professional association with actress Naomi Tani; influenced later writers including Murakami Ryū.
An interactive genealogy of bakushi and kinbaku —
the Japanese rope traditions that grew from Edo-period hojōjutsu
through twentieth-century SM magazines into today's global
shibari scene.
People
343
Entities
269
Connections
1546
Eras
9
Each record is sourced from public material — Nawapedia,
ShibariStudy, festival rosters, interviews, archived studio
pages — and curated by a single researcher.
Beta — structure and interface are public;
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top, the 2020s at the bottom. Cards are coloured by
school or lineage; lines between them carry
the relationship type:
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influence — peer study, mentorship
thinner colours — venue, magazine, production
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Missing birth years are deliberate — many practitioners don't
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