Kai-ichi Seda
Seda (世田) family name, Kai-ichi (介一) first name, (19**-)
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Activities
An editor, artist, writer, and kinbakushi. He began his career as an enthusiast during the latter half of the 1960s, contributing to the magazine Kitan Club under the name Sakae Nakamiya. He began his own limited-circulation magazine, SUN&MOON, in 1977 after Kitan Club ceased publication while still working as a contributor to other S&M magazines. Afterward, though he still worked publishing articles in a large number of magazines, his work was concentrated in fanzines directed towards a core audience of enthusiasts making him known as the bridge between Kitan Club and the later scene. His artistic works are published under the name Yasushi Arakawa.
Alternate Name(s)
世田介一(Japanese), Yasushi Arakawa (荒川也寸志), Sakae Nakamiya (中宮栄)
Biography
1967: Begins publishing in Kitan Club under the name Sakae Nakamiya.
1977: Begins publishing under the name Kai-ichi Seda.
March 1st, 1977: Launches SUN&MOON on March 1st.
February 25th, 1978: SUN&MOON begins being published under a katakana title (サンアンドムーン) by Geneisha with Hiroshi Urado as editor. Seda soons leaves concerning creative differences.
1978: Seda launches Specially S&M. Leaves after the 7th issue concerning creative differences.
September 1979: Publishes work under the name Yasushi Arakawa in the premiere issue of S&M Sniper.
1980: Launches Tomoe Egara (Edo Products).
1980: Launches Ikiiki (Nichigetsusha).
1980: Launches Nichigetsu Club (Edo Products).
1982: Launches SPROUT (Kindai Shobou).
February 15th, 1983: Launches SM Mirage (Gunyu Shinsha).
