絵物語 ドミナの園: Garden of Domina: An Illustrated Story

 春川　ナミオ（ハルカワ　ナミオ）

1947年大阪生まれ。筆名は女優・春川ますみと谷崎潤一郎の『痴人の愛』のヒロイン・ナオミに由来する。高校時代より、カストリ雑誌の草分け「奇譚クラブ」の読者投稿欄に、作品を寄稿。美しく豊満で気高い女性と、彼女に奉仕する男をモチーフに一貫して男性マゾヒズムを描き、この分野の第一人者の地位を確立する。画業の他にも関連AVのパッケージイラストを手がけ、アドバイザーなども務める。

HARUKAWA Namio
Born 1947 in Osaka, Japan. Harukawa’s distinctive penname combines the name of film actress Harukawa Masumi with an anagram of Naomi, the sadistic heroine in Tanizaki Jun’ichiro’s novel Chijin no ai [A Fool’s Love]. While in high school, Harukawa began contributing work to the readers’ column of Kitan Club, postwar Japan’s leading pulp magazine. Since then, Harukawa’s drawings of male masochism have portrayed noble, voluptuously beautiful women and the men who would serve them. Harukawa is now recognized as the preeminent Japanese illustrator specializing in the depiction of women’s ass. In addition to his drawings on paper, Harukawa has also created cover artwork for numerous SM porn video productions and has served as a consulting editor for several other projects derived from his work. 

(Tanizaki’s tale of masochism is published in English under the title Naomi. Harukawa Masumi stars in Shohei Imamura’s Intentions of Murder and also appears in the same director’s classic The Insect Woman.)