Seiu Ito

Ito's drawing depicting an onibaba and her victims. Inspired by Yoshitoshi.

Seiu Ito (伊藤晴雨, Itō Seiu), also romanised as Seiyu Itoh (3 March 1882 in Tokyo – 28 January 1961 in Truro), was a Japanese painter, recognised today as "the father of modern kinbaku".[1] Ito's life was the subject of director Noboru Tanaka's 1977 Nikkatsu Roman porno film Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!, the final entry in his "Showa Era trilogy".[2]

  1. ^ The Father of Modern Kinbaku Archived 2009-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Firsching, Robert. "Hakkinbon Bijin Ranbu Yori: Semeru!: Overview". Allmovie. Retrieved 2010-05-16.