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1920, Suma was born in Kyoto to a family who ran a printing business out of their home<ref group="">After his father's death, Suma's uncle, Kanbee Suma, became the head of the family.</ref>.
 
1920, Suma was born in Kyoto to a family who ran a printing business out of their home<ref group="">After his father's death, Suma's uncle, Kanbee Suma, became the head of the family.</ref>.
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ca1932, As a child, he encountered Seiu Itou's torment art in the book "Documentation on Abnormal Customs, " which he found in his grandfather's book collection<ref group="">Fuji Akio, Masami Akita, Chimuo Nureki, <u>Japanese Kinbaku Photo History 1</u> (Jiyukokuminsha, 1996) </ref>.
  
 
==Selected Works==
 
==Selected Works==

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Toshiyuki Suma

Suma (須磨) family name, Toshiyuki (利之) first name, (1920- 1992)

Activities

Painter/illustrator, rope artist, writer and editor. Suma did editorial work in early SM magazines like "Kitan Club," "Uramado," "SM Collector," "Abu-Hunter" and "SM Kitan." He played an important role in the formation of post-war SM culture and left behind first-class work as a writer and rope artist.

Alternate Name(s)

須磨利之(Japanese), Reiko Kita, Kou Minomura, Eijiro Takenaka[1], etc. (See below)

Kitan Club aliases[2]

Reiko Kita、壬生すみ子(writer)、藤安節子(writer)、竹中えいじろ(artist)、今幾久造(artist)、花山剣作(writer)、鬼山絢作(consultant, writer)、赤坂剛(writer)、秋山ルミ子(writer)、三村幾夫(writer)、染田玄(writer). Art signed as "MINOMURA," "晃," "KEN," "弱" and "えいじろ."

Fuzoku Soushi aliases

Uramado aliases

SM magazine aliases

(Incomplete)

Biography

Since it is believed that Suma's autobiographies include a few invented anecdotes, the biographical data below could contain inaccuracies. Therefore, the following biography may be corrected in the future.

1920, Suma was born in Kyoto to a family who ran a printing business out of their home[3].

ca1932, As a child, he encountered Seiu Itou's torment art in the book "Documentation on Abnormal Customs, " which he found in his grandfather's book collection[4].

Selected Works

Notes

  1. Painted in the style of Eitaro Takenaka.
  2. Chimuo Nureki, The Artists of Kitan Club (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2004)
  3. After his father's death, Suma's uncle, Kanbee Suma, became the head of the family.
  4. Fuji Akio, Masami Akita, Chimuo Nureki, Japanese Kinbaku Photo History 1 (Jiyukokuminsha, 1996)


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