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Yukimura doesn’t do many suspensions and is known for his floorwork and caressing style, far more than suspensions. So when he told us that eventually our lessons would include suspensions as part of Yukimura Ryu, we were more than a little surprised.

Kinbaku Today is now 3 years old.  Since our launch, Kinbaku Today has been visited by more then 150,000 people who have looked at...

Walking with the SM kinbaku author Sakurai Yuki san from Sakuragichō-eki through Nogecho and over the Ōoka river in Yokohama, I had little idea...

Literally, shibari means ‘to tie’ and refers to an ancient, aesthetic form of rope bondage that since the beginning of the twentieth century is...

In 2006, I took my first trip to Tokyo as well as my first lesson in kinbaku, the Japanese art of erotic rope bondage....

In working with Sunohara san, I have had an amazing opportunity to review 30 videos of Nureki Chimuo's kinbiken workshops from the 1980s and...

CineMagic did a number of videos featuring multiple bakushi. New Kinbaku Performance is special. It has three legends tying the same model (6 scenes...

Notes from LA's first kinbaku life drawing class

A British BBC broadcaster, Marcel Theroux, once decided to find true meaning of wabi-sabi. For that very reason he traveled to Japan to learn...

Dark glasses can only hide so much.  To see Miura Takumi from a distance can be a bit intimidating.  Watching him tie, doubly so....

“Which rope should I buy?”  This is quite often the most asked question that I see on internet forums related to rope bondage, or that...

SM Sniper has released a series of four videos all featuring model Kawakami Yuu tied by top Japanese rope masters, inlcuding Akira Naka, Yukimura...