Interview with Naka Akira
In the middle of November 2017 in Turin, Kinbaku Luxuria hosted a Naka Ryu dedicated event. Many people not only from around Europe but...
Review: Nureki: Ayano and Tsubaki (O-121 and O-122)
Nureki Chimuo was one of the top kinbakushi during the Showa period and remained one of the most sought after rope artists in Japan...
Wabi-sabi: Humility in Aesthetics
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...
Signs of Shame: Understanding Japanese Bondage Images
If you watch Japanese bondage videos, or have ever flipped through old Japanese SM magazines such as Kitan Club or Sun and Moon, you've...
Happy Birthday Kinbaku Today!
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...
Sharing a Legacy: Sugiura Norio and Showa Era Kinbaku
My personal interest in kinbaku began decades ago, downloading pictures on my computer before there was an Internet. Every month or so, I would...
The Joy of Sarugutsuwa: An Appreciation of Traditional Japanese Gags
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...
Visiting Bakuyukai
Dark glasses can only hide so much. To see Miura Takumi from a distance can be a bit intimidating. Watching him tie, doubly so....
Bakuyukai: The First Rope Dojo
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...
大縄あそび Onawa asobi 2017 – Advanced Notice
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...
Nureki, Kinbiken, and the Aesthetics of Kinbaku
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...
Tessin Doyama: On Kinbaku Safety
*Please note : I am introducing the commonly used Japanese words “shibari - te” : person who ties) and “uke-te” : a person who...