The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage (2001)

This is one of my favourite books showing various rope bondage ties ever. The images in here are gorgeous! The only reason I took half a star off is that the instructions can be hard to follow unless you're fairly skilled with rope already. ( )

Very artistic. A few beautiful photographs, wide margins, heavy paper. A long introductory section. Not many ties. Lots of black and white line art for the instructions. ( )

Beautiful pictures. Wide margins. A lot of basic information. Not as many ties as I expected. ( )

A useful book with lots of illustrations and step by step instructions. It isn't perfect. Sometimes, you can't work out what knots are used from the drawings, but with patience you can usually get there.

There are probably around half a dozen page size colour photos in the book - this is not a book for people looking for bondage photos.

As I wasn't buying the book for the photos, I was perfectly happy with this, and enjoyed the photos particularly as they had an assortment of models of different builds, ages and genders. They feel like real people - and I prefer that. There's a couple of the photos that have a really lovely emotional feel to them.

I would have found the book easier to use if each tie had said clearly how much rope was needed. Some do, and some don't.

Overall, it's a good book that does a few ties in depth, rather than skimming over a large number briefly. ( )