Some of them are mourned internationally others die almost unnoticed. Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2019.Looking back at the famous, the infamous and the interesting figures who we lost in the last year.Įvery year, we lose people who are interesting and significant figures. The Incredible Femdom Art of Namio Harukawa.

^ È morto l’illustratore erotico giapponese Namio Harukawa (in Italian).

'Une exposition de face-sitting à Paris'. ^ 'Japanese femdom artist Namio Harukawa has passed away'.His death was confirmed in a blog post by Yuko Kitagawa, the owner of a video production company with longstanding ties to Harukawa. The Incredible Femdom Art of Namio Harukawa, an anthology of Harukawa's works, was published by Kawade Shobō Shinsha in 2019. The exhibition featured 71 works by Harukawa, 59 of which were from his Garden of Domina series. Works by Harukawa were exhibited at the Museum of Eroticism in Paris in 2013, his first solo exhibition outside of Japan. Two volumes of works by Harukawa have been published by French publishing house United Dead Artists : Callipyge in 2009, the first book of works by Harukawa published outside of Japan, and Maxi Cula in 2012.

Kyonyū Katsuai, a two-volume book of Harukawa's works, has been published in Japan. Bondage and human furniture are depicted frequently in his art. His artwork typically features women with large breasts, hips, legs, and buttocks dominating and humiliating smaller men, typically through facesitting or other forms of sexualized smothering. His art has earned praise from Oniroku Dan, Shūji Terayama, and Madonna, and favorable comparisons to works by Robert Crumb. Though he worked in pornographic magazines for the majority of his career, his work received wider recognition and critical acclaim beginning in the 2000s. He developed a career as a fetish artist in the 1960s and 1970s, taking the pen name 'Namio Harukawa': formed from an anagram of 'Naomi', a reference to Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel of the same name, and the last name of actress Masumi Harukawa. As a high school student he contributed artwork to Kitan Club, a post-war pulp magazine that published sadomasochistic artwork and prose. Harukawa was born in 1947 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He depicted voluptuous women, who dominated and used men as human furniture. Namio Harukawa ( 春川ナミオ, Harukawa Namio, May 1947 – April 24, 2020) was a pseudonymous Japanese fetish artist best known for his works depicting female domination ('femdom'), with erotic asphyxiation through facesitting appearing as a frequent subject of his art.

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