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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...

My personal interest in kinbaku began decades ago, downloading pictures on my computer before there was an Internet.  Every month or so, I would...

Some ten or fifteen years ago, Tokyo-based writer and translator Alice Liddell spent an evening with an elderly but still spry aficionado of Japanese...

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

In 1996, Akechi Denki and Miura Takumi founded Bakuyukai for the purpose of studying and teaching kinbaku.  With Akechi Denki as the group's Founder...

For those that require time to formulate travel plans, the annual 2-day kinbakushi event 大縄あそび Onawa asobi, hosted by Yoshida Yoi san will be...

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...

*Please note : I am introducing the commonly used Japanese words “shibari - te” : person who ties) and “uke-te” : a person who...

Published in 1975 as a guide the martial art of hojojutsu, this book contains a series of elaborate hojojutsu ties, as well as a...

I met Yukimura sensei in 2010.  It was a brief meeting and I was a bit starstruck.  I left his apartment in Ebisu that...

Lately I have been reviewing a lot of older style rope, primarily focused on Nureki Chimuo's instructional videos from Fuji Planning.  I am really...

I was beyond eager to help with the photo shoot! I woke up before 07:00 and we were going to leave at 08:00. I...