{"id":17700,"date":"2016-02-02T01:08:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T01:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17700"},"modified":"2016-02-02T01:08:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T01:08:14","slug":"the-art-of-tatsuji-okawa-1904-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/02\/02\/the-art-of-tatsuji-okawa-1904-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Tatsuji Okawa, 1904\u20131994"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"okawa1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/okawa1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More from Japan. I found some of Tatsuji Okawa&#8217;s bondage drawings on a website some years ago but there was no information about the artist other than his name. The reproductions were also poor quality, being grainy scans from books. These drawings are from the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesegayart.com\/?page_id=1267\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese Gay Art<\/a> site, a wonderful resource that also sells the work on display. Most of the drawings deal with bondage and\/or humiliation\u2014popular themes in Japanese porn\u2014but there are a few portrait-style pieces like the ones below. No surprise to read that Yukio Mishima enjoyed Okawa&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"okawa2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/okawa2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"okawa3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/okawa3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\">The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from Japan. I found some of Tatsuji Okawa&#8217;s bondage drawings on a website some years ago but there was no information about the artist other than his name. The reproductions were also poor quality, being grainy scans from books. These drawings are from the excellent Japanese Gay Art site, a wonderful resource that also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/02\/02\/the-art-of-tatsuji-okawa-1904-1994\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Tatsuji Okawa, 1904\u20131994&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[7991,625],"class_list":["post-17700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gay","tag-tatsuji-okawa","tag-yukio-mishima"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Bu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}