Keiko Tagami
3 albums/24 artworks – Keiko Tagami (田上恵子) was a Japanese illustrator specializing in seme-e, drawings of women subjected to bondage and various forms of torment. Almost nothing is known about her personal life. No birth or death dates, no photographs of the artist herself, and no interviews have surfaced. Like many of the illustrators working for the early postwar SM magazines, she remains known almost exclusively through her published work. Her drawings appeared primarily in Fuzoku Kitan and its pictorial supplement Gaho Fuzoku Kitan between roughly 1960 and 1962. She contributed several series of torment illustrations as well as drawings for stories by writers such as Chimuo Nureki. Tagami’s style is realistic and atmospheric, with a strong emphasis on the…
