Facesittings are Forever by Namio Harukawa

Facesittings are Forever exists at the edge of illustration and obsession.

This memorial volume gathers the work of Namio Harukawa—an artist whose line work carved out a singular territory within Japanese erotic art. Across hundreds of drawings and studies, the book traces a practice rooted in power dynamics, scale, and the charged space between figures. What could have remained niche became unmistakable: a visual language all its own.

As an object, the book operates both as tribute and documentation. As a body of work, it speaks to how subculture becomes canon—how repetition becomes signature. For collectors of illustration, students of character dynamics, and anyone interested in how desire and dominance can be translated into graphic form, Facesittings are Forever is less a narrative and more a sustained study in aesthetic conviction.

• Soft Cover, Paper dust jacket
• 8.5 x 6 in
• 328 pages
• Texts in Japanese
• Over 330 illustrations

Artist: Namio Harukawa

Published By: Kawade Shobo Shinsha