I would like to tell you how my Japanese business partner, Mariko, helped me to entertain a group of businessmen from a company that is very important for our profits and growth. The way it turned out was not exactly what she had expected. For me what happened was incredibly erotic. For the guests it was something that will keep them coming back to us. For Mariko I guess it tested her acceptance of how far she is willing to go to support our business and her chances of getting wealthy.
By way of background can I explain a few things - my apologies if you already know about these aspects of Japanese culture and life?
First of all as you will know bondage is considered to be a very erotic sexual activity here in Japan. Its tradition goes back for centuries and has two main streams. One has grown into an erotic art form in which the skill of the ropemaster is widely acknowledged and the pleasure is seeing the art of someone being restrained and helpless.
The other, more submissive route, has its roots in the samurai era where it was much more to do with punishment and sexual humiliation. Bondage was often used to restrain defeated nobles and to also restrain their wives, sisters, family members, even mothers - who were then repeatedly violated in front of the captured noble either by the conquering soldiers or by the peasants who had previously been under the control of that noble family. Not only was this a way of entertaining the troops by letting them sate their lust whilst humiliating the defeated noble but also a way of breaking the servile bond between masters and their serfs. The serfs would prefer the soldiery to be raping noble women than their own wives and daughters. I am not sure how this relates to other countries but it does mean in Japan that there is a culture where men still gain enormous pleasure in private from watching and participating in sexual bondage.
This latter form of bondage plays into my voyeuristic nature and the process that I have been following of overcoming Mariko's initially proud Japanese attitude and making her accept my control!
Like many conservative Japanese women she was brought up to be rather disdainful of males and to consider herself a 'cut above' their sexual desires. When I met her she was just turning 40 and posessing that very trim, small breasted body that one sees so much in Japan. We not only became business partners but, as is commonplace in business here, she also became a 'sleeping partner' if you follow the gist of what I mean. It was however a real challenge to make her change her attitudes and to accept my sexual preferences. By the time of what I am going to recount I was part way there - but still felt that she had much to kearn about submission and humility.
The second thing is to explain the 'ryokan' or Japanese inn. Japan has thousands of ryokan in the countryside - almost always associated with hot springs (onsen) and naked bathing. These days most bathing is single sex but there are places that have mixed bathing facilities. There are also ones that have onsen that can be hired for private use. The rooms in the inn have tatami floors - a kind of woven bamboo matting. Each room is normally quite large and can be divided by screens. The screens are covered in what is called washi paper that is usually white and translucent. The most common arrangement is for a sort of sitting area next to the window to be capable of being screened off from the rest of the room by these washi screens. This creates a smallish secluded area. In the main part of the room low tables are set out for meals and when it is night mattresses are unrolled onto the tatami mats . This set up formed a perfect setting for what I wanted to do.
It is normal for guests in the ryokan to wear a full length cotton gown called a yukata held together by a cotton belt - and nothing else. So you have all the guests wandering around with little on.
It is commercially very important in terms of relationship building to offer extensive corporate hospitality to companies who are your clients. So I kind of got the message when the President of one company I have worked with for a number of years hinted rather indirectly (as can only happen in Japan) that sometime it would be good to have some more 'lively' hospitality for himself and his managers if possible!
After some consideration I thought that it could be good for business and good for Mariko's sexual experienc if something special could be arranged involving her. It would also be something I could enjoy watching and participating in.
Cutting a long story short I arranged to book a very discreet and small ryokan I know in the Japanese Alps mountains north of Tokyo. This would guarantee the privacy needed for what I wanted to arrange. It is also a very traditional and discreet place, which suited my plans extremely well.
I motored up with Mariko. She understood that there would be business guests and corporate hospitality. What she did not know was that she was to be the 'hospitality'.
When we arrived we had a bathe and then went back to our room. I laid a futon down in the window area where it could be screened off and invited her to strip and to lie down. I reckon she thought she and I would be making love before the guests came. She was not that surprised when I used some cotton belts to tie each of her wrists and to fasten them to two pillars behind her back. This left her head on the pillows and her arms spread wide and tied securely in a Y shape. I lifted her buttocks up and placed another pillow under them to raise her rump a little. Then I wrapped more belts from the yukatas around each of her knees and repeated the procedure of tying them to the pillars. This was becoming more interesting as she was now knees back almost to the level of her chest, thighs wide apart, with her delightful cunt, hairy bush and anal pucker totally exposed. Ready made for deep penetration. She was surprised when I did not 'attack' her then and there but left her restrained and started arranging some lamps pointing inwards towards her from the window side. I switched them on and stepped into the main part of the room pulling the screens into their closed position. What I saw was a great silhouette of Mariko on the washi paper from the backlighting. In particular I could see her limbs, the outline of her head, small breasts, her upraised buttocks and her jiggling calves and feet. It was a most erotic sight of a restrained woman in slhouette - the beauty that comes from seeing but not seeing if you follow me. Stimulating for the imagination..
As the guests were due to come to the room for dinner I organized the light cords onto an extension cable which I could switch on and off from the main room, placed the tables strategically to view the closed screen and turned off the backlights. Now the washi screen was closed and completely blank when you looked at it. I was entertained by the thought that Mariko would be in a state of panic behind the screen and that this would increase when she heard the guests arrive.
About 15 minutes later the President and his management team came into our room through the inter-connecting door from his own room. They were in high spirits expecting 'lively' entertainment that might be on offer that night. There were 11 of them including the President. Mariko was keeping very quiet despite what must have been some discomfort from the constraint and the sounds coming from the other side of the screen to her. I could imagine however what was going through her mind as she lay there naked bound and spread-eagled.
It is customary in the ryokan to have a meal served to the room. So the first thing that happened for my guests was that the inn staff delivered this to us and set it out on the table along with pots of sake. As the guys dined the conversation was lively in anticipation of their 'dessert'! They kept on asking me what I had organized and I kept telling them that if they were patient they would see for themselves shortly. Mariko must have been panicking just behind the screen that was at the most 4 metres from our table (I forgot to say that when the screen doors are closed they might block out vision but being made of paper they do not block out any sound. She would be hearing everything that was being said even if it was difficult for her to work out how many men were in the room).
As the sake got drunk the suggestions of what they were hoping to do got more intense. Clearly they expected it to involve sex. I got the impression that they were not interested too much in their meal that night - they were a bit impatient with me for not already having something laid on for them. Compared with a normal meal they seemed in something of a hurry and it was not too long before the staff removed the dishes and left us with pots of green tea on the tables. Having kept them hanging on as long as I could I felt the time had come to reveal a little of what I had arranged for them.