When I teach workshops or when I’m at events one of the many questions I get is “are there any good kinbaku tutorial books to learn from?”. Learning kinbaku is not all, I repeat, is not all about knowing each and every knot, friction and pattern. My answer usually is, you’d be better of finding a good teacher and do actual workshops with him or her to find your path to get where you want go. I realize this is not in reach for everyone, so in this post I will list the tutorial books from my own library that I find useful to learn from
A list of kinbaku tutorial books by language and year:
Japanese language
Kinbaku books
- The Beauty of Kinbaku, 2013, ISBN 978-4-86369-299-2- A tomb of knowledge
- Arisue Go’s basic of Japanese bondage, 2008, ISBN 9780407769-0293-5
- The book of Five Rings, 2005, ISBN 4-7769-0086-6
- The book of Five Rings, vol.2, 2005, ISBN 4-7769-0096-3
- Shokai Nawajutsu, 2001, ISBN 4-7502-0249-5 – Rare, out-of-print
- Tsukasa Mook 39, 1998, ISBN 4-8128-0207-5
- The History Of Japanese Bondage Photography, volume 1, 1996 – by Masami Akita
- BIND, 1992 – by Fuji Akio,
- Masato Marai’s art of bondage for advanced, ISBN 978-4-7769-0444-1
- Masato Marai’s art of bondage for advanced 2, ISBN 978-4-7769-0559-2
“Hojo” books
- Zukai Hojojutsi, 1964, ISBN 4-8390-0297-5 – Rare, out-of-print
- Torinawajutsu, ISBN 4-7502-0282-7
English language
Kinbaku books
- The Beauty of Kinbaku, 2008, ISBN 978-0-615-24876-9 – A tomb of knowledge
- Midori’s The seductive art of Japanese bondage, 2001, ISBN 1-890159-38-7
Non-kinbaku books
I don’t consider these books on the topic of kinbaku but that does not make them less interesting and/or useful
- Complete shibari, vol.1, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9736688-1-0
- Complete shibari, vol.2, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9736688-2-7
- Shibari you can use, 2006, ISBN 0-9778727-0-x
- Jay Wiseman’s Erotic bondage handbook, 2000, ISBN 1-890159-13-1
German language
- Das Bondage-Handbuch, 1999, ISBN 3-931406-16-4
Last words
There is still more from familiar names that I’ll add later and I got a truckload of no-name tutorials that I got when I visited Sanwa.
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