Welcome to AkaTako - your USA based source (with a small outpost in Europe) for underground and hard to find Japanese art: signed art books, limited edition prints and posters, licensed enamel pins and t-shirts, artist produced postcards and mini books, original drawings and paintings, and lots more. We ship worldwide!
Not sure where to start? Check out the more popular artists and items just below. A bit further down the page is a news feed of everything going on with AkaTako.

POPULAR ARTISTS

Namio Harukawa

POPULAR ITEMS

Takato Yamamoto
Apparition II t-shirt

Takato Yamamoto Rib of a Hermaphrodite Black

Takato Yamamoto
Rib of Hermaphrodite

Takato Yamamoto
Nosferatu

Takato Yamamoto Coffin of a Chimera Black

Takato Yamamoto
Coffin of Chimera

Suehiro Maruo
Cotton Scarf

Kitanya White Bunny Kikko Blue Kinbaku Charm

White Bunny
Kikko Blue Charm

THE LATEST NEWS

JULY 2023 SALE

Posted on: Jul 3, 2023

[SALE IS NOW OVER. Thank you!]
Starting today!! Three weeks of sales at akatako on selected items. Each Monday will bring a new announcement of sales (posted here and on all the social medias). All coupons will be valid until July 31. Thank you for your support!

[WEEK 1]

Please use coupon code JULY10 during checkout to take 10% off any of these items:
✶ ALL Chika Tanikawa items:

✶ ALL Ephemeral Exhibition Catalogs:

✶ ALL ExtrArt magazines:

✶ ALL Kana Miyamoto items: (except original painting)

✶ ALL Kenichi Murata items:

[WEEK 2]

All POSTERS and POSTCARDS are 20% off with coupon code JULY20. (Special order and consignment items are not included.)
✶ALL postcards (some sold individually, some in sets):

✶ALL posters (most are signed, some are not):

[WEEK 3]

Please use coupon code JULY25 during checkout to take 25% off any of these items:
✶ ALL buttons and pins:

✶ Shintaro Kago and Suehiro Maruo licensed t-shirts + a few others:

Trevor Brown Urbangarde Kekkon Shiki t-shirt

✶ Suehiro Maruo vintage figures:

Suehiro Maruo Shoujo Tsubaki figure boxed

Suehiro Maruo Shoujo Tsubaki sepia figure

Suehiro Maruo Leopard Man and Young Detectives figure

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AkaTako Licensed Silk Scarf Collection

Posted on: Apr 30, 2023

Very pleased to offer for PRE-ORDER eleven different official, licensed artist collaboration scarves! 100% silk 14mm twill, dry clean only, with a hand-rolled hem. They measure about 34.25" x 34.25" (87x87cm) - this may vary a little due to the hand finishing.

[NOW IN STOCK!!] The PRE-ORDER period closed on May 22 and manufacturing has begun. Orders are expected to begin shipping around JUNE 16. I will post regular updates at the bottom of this page!

Chika Yamada licensed silk scarf	Daisuke Ichiba licensed silk scarf	Em Nishizuka licensed silk scarf	Kana Miyamoto licensed silk scarf
Makiko Sugawa licensed silk scarf	Mika Nitta licensed silk scarf	Shintaro Kago licensed silk scarf	Suehiro Maruo licensed silk scarf
Takato Yamamoto licensed silk scarf	Tama licensed silk scarf	Yuka Sakuma licensed silk scarf

Please click the images or titles above to see more photos and to purchase.

UPDATES:
May 22 - pre-order period has closed and the final quantity of each scarf has been determined. Order was placed with the manufacturer.
June 12 - Shintaro Kago, Takato Yamamoto, Suehiro Maruo scarves are completed and will ship to AkaTako in 1-2 days.
June 14 - First box (Kago, Yamamoto, Maruo) has shipped to AkaTako USA.
June 16 - Second box (everyone else!) has shipped to AkaTako USA.
June 20 - Second box (all except Kago, Yamamoto, Maruo) has arrived to AkaTako USA.
June 21 - First box (Kago, Yamamoto, Maruo) SCHEDULED to arrive to AkaTako USA.
June 22 - USA has shipped a bunch of the pre-orders, all orders should be done by end of this week!
June 29 - Scarves arrived to EU and all pre-orders are shipped!

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Kanako Tama's New Book

Posted on: Apr 9, 2023

Just added, SIGNED copies of Kanako Tama's new photography book "Honey Magic". This is her third book where she is behind the camera. Her first book "A Yet Unseen Comet" focused more on self-portraits. Her second book "Seven Stars Falling on Skin" focused on intimate portraits of Nananano. And now this book features 11 models expressing eros and innocence with seasonal flowers.

Kanako Tama
"Honey Magic" - front cover

Kanako Tama
"Honey Magic" - inside page

SIGNED copies of her previous two books are also available!
"A Yet Unseen Comet"
"Seven Stars Falling on Skin"

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Tama Books Restock

Posted on: Apr 9, 2023

Just restocked, Tama watercolor art books! Her most recent book "Deep Memories" has been sold out for a little while. Very happy to have SIGNED copies again! "Calling" just recently sold out and is available again as well (signed too!). :)

Tama "Deep Memories"

Tama "Calling"

Cilck the images or links above for more photos and to purchase.

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Shishi Ruirui New Edition

Posted on: Apr 8, 2023

Now that the first edition is sold out, a new edition of Shintaro Kago's art book "Shishi Ruirui" has just been released! Book includes artworks for CD and DVD covers, posters, t-shirts, exhibitions, etc. - everything that is not part of a manga. Same content as first edition, 128 pages but with a new cover and also including a folded 10.75" x 15.4" (27.5x39cm) POSTER of the front cover! SIGNED copies are available.

Click the image or links above to purchase.

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New Kinbaku Collection Book

Posted on: Mar 21, 2023

*** ARRIVED to USA and already sold out! USA will restock mid to late April. I guessed a little incorrectly on the front cover. Which is also hand SIGNED by Hajime Sorayama! New photo added. ***
Not quite yet published but coming very soon!! I received preview images a little while ago and the order has been placed - I am not 100% sure the cover is going to look exactly like this but interior pages will be correct. ^_^

Available for PRE-ORDER with expected arrival to USA at the very beginning of April. EU will receive a little while later in mid or possibly later April.
Over 330 pages of hardcore rope bondage and torture, "KINBAKU The Golden Age of Japanese Restrained & Tortured Artworks" includes artworks from NINE artists! Kou Minomura, Yoko Ozuma, Yoji Muku, Ran Akiyoshi, Hajime Sorayama, Hiroaki Samura, Shoji Oki, Gengoroh Tagame, and Miyabi Kyodo. Book is the same size as the recent Namio Harukawa books "Incredible Femdom Art" and "Facesittings are Forever" as well as Gekko Hayashi "Boys Love" book.

ADULTS ONLY!!!! This is not a book about tenderness, love, and gentle play.

Item description (and this post) will be updated once I have better information.

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It's a Little Love Sale

Posted on: Feb 13, 2023

[SALE IS FINISHED. Coupon code is no longer valid. Thank you!]
Why? Because I love you! All pins, buttons, badges, AND all postcards are on sale for this week only (February 13 - 17).
♥ Take 14% off with coupon code BCUZILUVU and save a little more (even on items that are already discounted). ♥

Images above are just a selection of what is on sale. Please be sure to check out the full listing of PINS and POSTCARDS that are on sale with this coupon.
I'll update this page again when the coupon is dead!

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New Eimi Suzuki Goods

Posted on: Jan 23, 2023

Just added, many items produced by Eimi Suzuki herself! Each items features one of her digital or painted collages of classical artworks put together in a new and inventive way with a touch of the macabre. Signed copies of her art book "Anatomie de l'Art Insolite d'Eimi Suzuki" are also available.