Sanwa Publishing
三和出版 (Japanese)
Summary
Masahiro Asada, Seiryou Ishikawa, and Furukawa Takashi joined Sanwa Publishing from the inactive Tsukasa Shobou, which Toen Shobou founded. Sanwa Publishing became active in the early 1980s. Sanwa Publishing released popular magazines such as SM Fan, SM Mania, SM Hisyousetsu, and Mania Club during the golden age of SM magazines. Chimuo Nureki, Go Arisue, Masato Marai, Norio Sugiura, and Shikou Shima published their works through Sanwa Publishing.
Editors
The list of editors in chief: Masahiro Asada, Yutaka Matsumoto, Masato Marai, Yuji Fukue, Yasunori Goto, Ishibashi, Riichi Onodera, Mitsuru Higashimoto, Jiro Mizuki, Tetsuro Nakajima, Masunotoshi.
History
1974: Founds as a subsidiary of Toen Shoubou.
1974: Takes over the publication of SM Frontier from Tsukasa Shobou.
1976: Jul 8. The registered date of establishment.
1980: May. Publishes the first issue of SM Phoenix.
1982: Masahiro Asada, Seiryou, and Furukawa Takashi, previously at Tsukasa Shobou, become shareholders in Sanwa Publishing. Norio Sugiura publishes his major works through Sanwa Publishing. Chimuo Nureki and Go Arisue join as leading kinbakushi.
1982: Masato Marai joines.
1986: Jan. Mania Club is published as an additional issue of SM Mania, becomes a periodical, and continues to exist to the present.
1988: Chimuo Nureki and Go Arisue temporarily retire from Sanwa Publishing, and Masato Marai, as the main bondage master, teams up with Norio Sugiura. After that, Kenji Iwazuki becomes another temporary kinbakushi.
1993: May 12. Founds company “Media Boy.”
1994: Takashi Furukawa becomes independent and founds Eiwa Publishing with Yuji Fukue.
1999: Masahiro Asada, Yasunori Goto and Renji Ishibashi, founds Myway Publishing. The publication of SM Mania, SM Hisyousetsu, and Apple Photo Studio has been moved to Myway Publishing. At the same time, Hiroshi Yamada moves to Taiyoh Tosho and opens the Ichigaya Editorial Office.
Published Materials
SM Hisyousetsu magazine (1982-2009)
Mania Club magazine (1982-)
Maniac Love Text Lesson 3 (2002?)
The Book Of Five Rings For Rope Arts Vol.1 (2005)
The Book Of Five Rings For Rope Arts Vol.2 (2005)
Arisue's Kinbaku Theory And Practices (2007)
Marai Masato's Kinbaku Techniques for the Advanced 1&2 (2009, 2010)
Kinbaku Methods and Techniques to Guide a Woman to Masochistic Climax (2014)
You Can Do It Now! Illustrated Bondage Manual 2 (2016)
SM Manual For Starting From Scratch - Bondage Method for Giving Female Orgasm (2018)
You Can Do It Now! How to Tie Manual and DVD (2018)
You Can Do It Now! How to Tie Manual and DVD - Application Edition (2019)
You Can Do It Now! SM Without Tools DVD (2019)
Yukimura Style Bondage Course - 7 Kinbaku SM Erotic Methods to Please a Woman (2020). Includes DVD
Interesting points
Sanwa Publishing was founded under Toen Shobou, but later under Process in Japan.
Sanwa Publishing produced a video of the Mania series in the 1990s.
