Minomura Kou
2 albums/25 artworks – Minomura Kou (1920 – 1992) played an important role in the formation of post-war SM culture. He did editorial work for early SM magazines such as Kitan Club, Uramado, SM Collector, Abu Hunter and SM Kitan. He was one of the principal editors of Kitan Club magazine and the founder of Uramado magazine. But that is not all, he also was a novelist, short-story writer, film critic, essayist, columnist, bakushi (rope master), photographer, painter, book jacket illustrator, magazine illustrator, ‘adviser’ to several bondage magazines in the “second wave” of SM publications in the 1970s and a member of Ito Seiu’s artistic inner circle in post war. This artist used various pseudonyms, known are: Reiko Kita (after his wife’s maiden name), Ko Minomura, Kyoji Minota,…
