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Please visit Mr\u00a0Osada Steve\u2019s website to read the original interview in English at<\/span><\/p>\n TokyoBound on this link. Enjoy!<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n By NuitdeTokyo<\/p>\n The other day I was at a Yakitori restaurant in Roppongi just below the C\u2019est Bien shop (run by the Mistress Bar empire). It used to be one of the customary stops with Osada Steve (\u9577\u7530\u30b9\u30c6\u30a3\u30fc\u30d6) on our way to Roppongi Jail.<\/p>\n I was rather startled to suddenly see Osada Steve himself appearing in front of me, saying he saw me through the window. The bill was promptly settled and five minutes later we landed in Jail, so to speak . . .<\/p>\n At the bar we encountered Oda Hisashi (\u7e54\u7530\u4e45\u5148\u751f), the owner of the nationwide Jail empire. Steve and Oda-sensei are going back a long time and were soon reminiscing about the old days when Oda\u00a0Hisashi was a regular at Studio SIX to enjoy grandmaster Osada Eikichi\u2019s (\u9577\u7530\u82f1\u5409, 1925 to 2001) live shows.<\/p>\n After Osada sensei collapsed one night on stage, he spent almost a year in a home for the elderly. It was during that time when Oda Hisashi took a leading role as emissary and advisor on keeping the Osada lineage alive by promoting Steve (at that time going by the name of Dr D Vice) to become the officially designated successor to the Osada empire. Asked why he had staked his reputation on routing for Steve he replied that Steve had \u201cheart\u201d.\u00a0\u201cHeart is something rare and special in shibari. You can\u2019t be taught it, you can\u2019t buy it, you can\u2019t beg for it. Either you have it or you don\u2019t; and Steve had it.\u201d<\/span> He also said that Steve struck him as the most likely person to keep the Osada name alive. \u201cSteve is a guy who knows the spirit of budo – that\u2019s very rare to find among Japanese these days. Just look at the ever-increasing number of sport riggers.\u201d<\/p>\n When I asked Steve later what a sport rigger was, he explained that as the pyramid grows at the bottom the percentage of people who don\u2019t know what they are doing increases as more and more people do shibari because it\u2019s \u201ccool\u201d; and not because of any particular deep conviction or \u201cheart\u201d.<\/p>\n Now, according to Steve, all he ever wanted was tie up pretty women, but through the untimely departure of his mentor and benefactor he was gently nudged into becoming the successor of Osada Eikichi; an event that was sealed and officially ratified at a special Memorial Event in Roppongi Jail in November, 2001; attended by the who is who of the shibari world, including\u00a0Akechi Denki<\/span><\/a> (\u660e\u667a\u4f1d\u9b3c).<\/p>\n Coincidentally, I had just come across the\u00a0August 1999 issue of Speculum, a magazine rather hard to find, with a prominent feature on Oda Hisashi and the Kansai SM world. As coincidences keep piling up, Oda Hisashi is also featured in this month\u2019s Mania Club, published by Sanwa Shuppan.<\/p>\n Oda Hisashi is one of those guys who have been around for decades. He helped Steve break into large stages in Osaka and around the country, and taught Steve a lot about shows. According to Steve he never saw him drive the same car or wear the same brand-name watch twice. It\u2019s hard to say how large his fleet is, but by latest count he owns six Porsche cars.<\/p>\n Walking back into the Tokyo night I told Osada Steve about an interview of\u00a0Akechi Denki<\/span><\/a> (\u660e\u667a\u4f1d\u9b3c) by\u00a0Randa Mai<\/span><\/a> (\u4e71\u7530\u821e) in the\u00a0same August 1999 issue of Speculum, and promised to translate and share this here on TokyoBound.<\/p>\n NdT<\/p>\n TieBreaker says: If you click\u00a0here<\/span><\/a> you will be able to see a photo gallery that has nothing to do with the article above. 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