Kinbakushi

Japanese: 長田英吉 Born on March 15, 1925 in Tochigi Prefecture, passed away September 12, 2001. He was 76 years old. Read the In Memorian here.     Osada Eikichi is [...]

Japanese: 乱田舞 Nawashi

RopeMarks (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) started studying and specializing himself professionally in Japanese rope bondage (shibari, kinbaku) in 1999. Over his career he studied under the lineage of the late Akechi [...]

Japanese: 雪村春樹 / 雪村流 May 11, 1948 - Mar 3, 2016 (68 years old) Nawashi Rule: 腕は縄、縄は縄, Ude ha nawa, nawa ha nawa, the arm is a rope, the rope is [...]