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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