--- title: "News" description: "News and reviews about shibari with no trend-driven editorial agenda. A selection of what we consider relevant, when we consider it relevant." image: "https://shibari-dojo.online/images/categoria/og-news.webp" --- # News News and reviews on the **shibari scene**, with no trend-driven editorial filter and no style agenda. **What we consider relevant, when we consider it relevant.** Cinema, publications and other artistic proposals complete the picture surrounding the world of Japanese bondage on its journey from Japan to your bedroom. ## The World of Yukimura Haruki: a review of the tenth-anniversary exhibition ![The World of Yukimura Haruki: a review of the tenth-anniversary exhibition](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0402en_sq.webp) From October 8 to 12, 2026, Tokyo hosted the photo exhibition “The World of Yukimura Haruki: 10 Years After His Death,” devoted to the *kinbaku* (緊縛) master **Yukimura Haruki** (雪村春樹), who had died a decade earlier. The show was organized and curated by his son, the photographer **Higurashi Keisuke** (日暮圭介), and was split between two venues. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-04-02-en.md) ## Rope supplier guide 2026 ![Rope supplier guide 2026](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0401en_sq.webp) The “Clara” soap opera continues. Previously on: rope sold under the “CLARA Esinem” brand and produced between 2024 and 2025 has a serious quality problem: it breaks after only a few uses. After repeated complaints on social media, the distributor withdrew the whole batch from the market, acknowledging a manufacturing defect. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-04-01-en.md) ## Kinbaku Today’s archive of Japanese SM magazines ![Kinbaku Today’s archive of Japanese SM magazines](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0307en_sq.webp) In July 2026, the online publication **Kinbaku Today** presented an archive of historical Japanese SM magazines, with issues from the fifties and sixties that can be viewed online. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-03-07-en.md) ## The Kinbaku Society of Berlin: the collective and its magazine ![The Kinbaku Society of Berlin: the collective and its magazine](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0306_sq.webp) **The Kinbaku Society of Berlin** (**KSB**) is a European collective of people interested in studying kinbaku and its sociocultural setting, from its origins to its current evolution, and the print magazine it has published since 2019. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-03-06-en.md) ## Yūgen Studio Magazine ![Yūgen Studio Magazine](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0305_sq.webp) **Yūgen Studio Magazine** (**Yūgen SM**) is a print shibari kinbaku magazine born at **Yūgen Studio**, the space devoted to bondage and Japanese culture that **Federico Kirigami** and **Marta Tenshiko** run in Milan (Italy). [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-03-05-en.md) ## Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink, by Midori ![Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink, by Midori](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0304_sq.webp) **Midori** is a key figure on the international *kink* scene: writer, educator, *performer*, activist and committed. Her books, workshops and talks are a reference around the world. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-03-04-en.md) ## Ten Positions of a Naked Tied Woman, by Kita Reiko ![Ten Positions of a Naked Tied Woman, by Kita Reiko](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0303en_sq.webp) **Kita Reiko** (喜多玲子), a pseudonym of **Minomura Kou** (美濃村晃), is the creator of this illustration titled *Ten Positions of a Naked Tied Woman* and one of the great reference figures in the history of shibari. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-03-03-en.md) ## Showa Retro: an illustrated guide to the forgotten architecture of Japanese love hotels ![Showa Retro: an illustrated guide to the forgotten architecture of Japanese love hotels](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0302_sq.webp) During Japan’s decades of rapid economic growth, *love hotels* became a characteristic presence in the country’s urban landscape and popular culture. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-03-02-en.md) ## The 80th anniversary of Kitan Club magazine (奇譚クラブ) ![The 80th anniversary of Kitan Club magazine (奇譚クラブ)](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0301_sq.webp) **Kitan Club (奇譚クラブ)** is a Japanese magazine unique in the history of postwar popular and fetish culture in Japan. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-03-01-en.md) ## Go, Go, Second Time Virgin: a nihilistic requiem on a Tokyo rooftop ![Go, Go, Second Time Virgin: a nihilistic requiem on a Tokyo rooftop](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0207_sq.webp) ***Go, Go, Second Time Virgin*** (ゆけゆけ二度目の処女, *Yuke Yuke Nidome no Shojo*, 1969), directed by **Wakamatsu Koji**, is a raw, disturbing work that tells the story of two teenagers, Poppo and Tsukio, whose lives are marked by trauma and violence. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-02-07-en.md) ## Shura (しゅら): Rope Sisters ![Shura (しゅら): Rope Sisters](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0206_sq.webp) On May 30, 2023, ***Shura: Rope Sisters*** (しゅら -縄の姉妹-), a film directed by **Tohjiro**, premiered at the Theater Guild Daikanyama in Tokyo, continuing his attempt to build bridges between the most extreme porn and independent auteur cinema. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-02-06-en.md) ## Bakumonogatari (縛物語) ![Bakumonogatari (縛物語)](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0205_sq.webp) The historical link between shibari and the porn industry is a historical fact, even if some would like to deny it. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-02-05-en.md) ## Murder on D Street (D坂の殺人事件) ![Murder on D Street (D坂の殺人事件)](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0204en_sq.webp) Far from B- or Z-grade productions, ***Murder on D Street*** (D坂の殺人事件) is a true work of art. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-02-04-en.md) ## Blind Beast (盲獣) ![Blind Beast (盲獣)](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0203_sq.webp) This delightful 1969 film, ***Blind Beast*** (*Moju*, 盲獣), is a complete guide to understanding the delicate aesthetic blend the Japanese call “grotesque” (or “guturesque,” depending on who says it). [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-02-03-en.md) ## International Shibari Film Festival 2026: results of its first edition and a personal assessment ![International Shibari Film Festival 2026: results of its first edition and a personal assessment](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0202_sq.webp) The **International Shibari Film Festival (ISFF)** held its first edition on July 2 at the Cinéma Aventure in Brussels. It was organized by the Belgian collective **Atelier Mae** and served as the opening night of *Graines de Cordes III*, a four-day gathering held in Namur. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-02-02-en.md) ## The story of Abe Sada, or In the Realm of the Senses ![The story of Abe Sada, or In the Realm of the Senses](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0201_sq.webp) In May 1936, police in Tokyo arrested a woman at an inn who was carrying her lover’s severed penis wrapped in her kimono. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-02-01-en.md) ## Japonorama 7: January 2025 ![Japonorama 7: January 2025](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0107_sq.webp) The period around the turn of the year is busy in Japan, since New Year is celebrated twice within a few weeks: once following the Western calendar and once following the Chinese calendar. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-01-07-en.md) ## Japonorama 6: September 2024 ![Japonorama 6: September 2024](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0106_sq.webp) The sixth edition of **Japonorama**, for September 2024. This edition covers, among other things, the *Onawa Asobi* festival and **Tenma Haru**’s shibari style. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-01-06-en.md) ## Japonorama 5: a guide to shibari venues in Japan (summer 2024) ![Japonorama 5: a guide to shibari venues in Japan (summer 2024)](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0105_sq.webp) This special summer edition of *Japonorama* brings together a selection of the venues that, in Shibari Dojo’s view, should be visited on a shibari tour of Japan. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-01-05-en.md) ## Japonorama 4: January and February 2024 ![Japonorama 4: January and February 2024](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0104_sq.webp) *Japonorama* for January and February 2024: **Akechi Kanna** and his Kinbaku Salon in Tokyo, a photo session with **Hourai Kasumi** in the snow, the memorial for **Yukimura Haruki** and the special edition of Coco Ropes. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-01-04-en.md) ## Japonorama 3: January 2024 ![Japonorama 3: January 2024](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0103_sq.webp) *Japonorama* for January 2024: the death of the model **Kasumi Kana**, the Fetish Bar Arcadia anniversary, SM Night 2 and a talk on shibari between Yagami Ren and Tenma Haru. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-01-03-en.md) ## Japonorama 2: December 2023 ![Japonorama 2: December 2023](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0102_sq.webp) *Japonorama* for December 2023: **Hajime Kinoko**’s North American tour and the reissue of **Itoh Seiu**’s work. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-01-02-en.md) ## Japonorama 1: November 2023 ![Japonorama 1: November 2023](https://shibari-dojo.online/images/news/act0101_sq.webp) *Japonorama* is the section dedicated to news, events and curiosities from the Japanese shibari scene. [Read more...](https://shibari-dojo.online/act-en/act-01-01-en.md)