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Revision as of 16:53, 17 July 2010
Nureki (濡木) family name, Chimuo (痴夢男) first name, (1930- )
Contents
Activities
Kinbakushi, writer and editor.
Alternate Name(s)
濡木痴夢男(Japanese), IIda Toyokichi, Kan-ichiro Yutaka and Kanji Inada[note 1], etc..
Biography
Early Years
1930: Chimuo Nureki was born in Asakusa, Tokyo, and was the third generation of his family to be raised there.
c. 1938: Watching female sumo wrestling left an unforgettable impression on him[1].
1940: While a fifth grade elementary school student, Nureki saw a picture by Kashou Takabatake in which a boy was tied with his hands behind his back, and he became fascinated with pictures which appeared to show seppuku[1][note 2].
1940s: Nureki made a poster at the Health and Welfare public relations office of the Hitachi factory in Kameari where he was assigned during student mobilization[1][note 3].
1945: After the war, Nureki became an apprentice to Fukunosuke Ichikawa, a kabuki actor who played female roles in Shinsei Hanagata Kabuki[1][note 4].
1945: Met Seiu Ito in Asakusa[2].
1946: Another contact with Seiu Ito, this time at the Suzumoto Theater in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture[2].
1946: Nureki spoke with a kabuki troupe and enrolled in a jidogeki theatrical company[1][note 5]. Nureki's first work was as an extra in a Toho movie co-starring Roppa Fukukawa and Ichirou Kagami[1][note 6].
Kitan Club Period
1953: Nureki became acquainted with Kitan Club around the time he was sent from a Tokyo design company to Nagoya, where he worked on a clothing-related advertising magazine[3][note 7].
1953: Pleasurable Punishment Performer was accepted for the November 1953 issue of Kitan Club[note 8]
c. 1953: Nureki saw Seiu Ito while at a performance of Burned Alive at the Suzumoto Theater.
1954: Publication of the March issue of Kitan Club is suspended. Nureki published the content of "Demon Sisters" (illustrated by by Yagi Shizuo) with Fujio Maki, but there was a problem with release, and sale was prohibited four days later[3].
1955: Kitan Club resumed sales with the October issue under a new publisher, Tenseisya, which oversaw the magazine's cover design (the white cover period). Nureki wrote many of the stories in this issue.
Uramado Period
1957: Nureki returned to Tokyo. Shortly before leaving Nagoya, he discovered Uramado magazine in a Matsuzaka book store and came across Reiko Kita's name[3].
1957 (December): "The Pale Man" was published in Uramado under the pen name Toyokichi IIda[note 9]. After that, Nureki contributed to both Kitan Club and Uramado magazines. Later, he paid a visit to Toshiyuki Suma at Uramado's editorial office in Ekota[2].
Selected Works
How-to-Kinbaku
- 濡木痴夢男の縛り方入門1 (Nureki Chimuo's Introductory Guide to Shibari No.1) (Art Video, 1983)
- 濡木痴夢男の縛り方入門2 (Nureki Chimuo's Introductory Guide to Shibari No.2) (Art Video, 1983)
- 濡木痴夢男の縛り方入門3 (Nureki Chimuo's Introductory Guide to Shibari No.3) (Art Video, 1983)
- 濡木痴夢男の縛り方入門4 (Nureki Chimuo's Introductory Guide to Shibari No.4) (Art Video, 1983)
- 濡木痴夢男の縛り方入門5 (Nureki Chimuo's Introductory Guide to Shibari No.5) (Art Video, 1983)
- 濡木塾 I :濡木痴夢男新縛り方教室(Nureki School: Nureki Chimuo's New Introductory Guide to Shibari)(Art Video, 1988)
- 秘技伝授 緊縛入門 (Initiation of Secret Technique: Introductory Class of Shibari) (SOD Create, 2001)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Nureki, Chimuo. Nureki Chimuo's Chat Theater. Web.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nureki, Chimuo. The Artists of Kitan Club. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 2004. Print.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Nakahara, Rutsu. "Another Face of Chimuo Nureki". Bondage - For As Long As I Live (Afterward). Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 2008. Print.
Notes
- ↑ Kanji Inada is a group name used for collaborations between Chimuo Nureki (bondage), Katsuya Kashii (cameraman) and Akio Fuji (assistant cameraman). They performed magazine work under the name "Yutaka Editorial Office." It is the predecessor to Kinbiken (from The History of Japanese Bondage Photography).
- ↑ Nureki lived with his parents and a younger brother and sister in a two-story wooden house in Ryuusenjichou in Asakusa. He read the authors Edogawa Ranpo, Kyuusaku Yumeno, Udaru Oshita, Saburou Kouga, Juuza Unno and Junichirou Tanizaki repeatedly.
- ↑ Nureki received guidance from Ichirou Madokoro, a member of Taiheiyogakai.
- ↑ Based at a remodeled playhouse near Kameari Station. The 'Hanagata Kabuki Troupe had once been located at a theater in Honjo Midoricho, but was re-established in Kameari as Shinsei Hanagata Kabuki (Leaders: Tsuruzou Kantou and Takewaka Kantou) after evacuating Honjo Midoricho due to the destruction caused by aerial bombing.
- ↑ The troupe isn't specified, but it is thought to be Gekidan Toudou, which was active between 1928 and 1980.
- ↑ "I remember it seemed to have a title like If My Song Had Wings." The actual work is unconfirmed. One possibility is My Father (Toyotarou, 1946).
- ↑ Rutsu Nakahara places it with a Japanese PR magazine in the afterward to Nureki's "Bondage - For As Long As I Live."
- ↑ He had really wanted it to be illustrated by Reiko Kita, but Toshiyuki Suma had already left the magazine by that time. Mineko Tsuzuki Illustrated it instead.
- ↑ "Written on a train returning to Tokyo" (Bondage - For As Long As I Live (Afterward) by Rutsu Nakahara)