Lithographs (6) – Paper – Woman – Itō Seiu 伊藤晴雨 (1882-1961) – From the series “Jonin jigoku zue” 女人地獄図絵 (Pictures of Women in Hell) – Japan – ca 1930-50s (Early Showa period)

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Lithographs (6) – Paper – Woman – Itō Seiu 伊藤晴雨 (1882-1961) – From the series “Jonin jigoku zue” 女人地獄図絵 (Pictures of Women in Hell) – Japan – ca 1930-50s (Early Showa period)

Publisher by Sui Kodo (粋古堂)

Itou seiu 伊藤晴雨(1882-1961) memo
Founder of Showa SM Shunga. Born in the 15th year of the Meiji era, he has been keenly interested in plays and story blame from an early age, and has produced works such as photographs and pictures of his lover and wife tied up with a model.

He started as an illustrator for a newspaper company in the latter half of the Meiji era, but rather emerged in theater criticism and was promoted to the director of the entertainment department and chief illustrator of the Yomiuri Shimbun. Entering the Taisho era, he meets women who understand bondage, such as Kaneyo Sasaki (佐々木カネヨ) and Sahara Kise (佐原キセ), and pursues tied paintings and tied upphotographs.

At the end of the Taisho era, he was taken up by the Ero Guro boom from the cage and attracted public attention as a “pervert painter”.

In 1928 (Showa 3), Japan’s first “Research on Bondage” was published, but it was immediately banned.

Before the war, he published many works such as “Bijin Ranbu(美人乱舞)” from Kasu Kodo Bookstore and reached his heyday as an artist, but he was forced to suspend in World War II. He wrote many SM magazines even after the war.

In the Taisho era, he had already established a theater company with the theme of restraint, and in 1953 (Showa 28) after the war, he formed a “blame theater company” and performed at Ichikawa Suzumoto and others.

He is a spiritual pillar of Showa SM culture, and Tetsu Takahashi and Toshiyuki Suma are also special beings. He is a stage artist, a theater critic, etc., and has a big job as a ” Bondage painter” and a “bondage master”.