TokyoBound on this link. Enjoy!<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The above calligraphy by Yukimura Haruki (\u96ea\u6751 \u6625\u6a39) shows the bakushi (\u7e1b\u5e2b) name Harumine (\u6625\u5dba)\u00a0he has bestowed on Osada Steve (\u9577\u7530\u30b9\u30c6\u30a3\u30fc\u30d6) \u2014 who is entering his fourth year of apprenticeship in unlocking the secrets of newaza (\u5bdd\u6280) aka The Caressing Style.<\/span><\/p>\n Osada Steve:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt is a great honor to have been accepted as a student by the undisputed King of Newaza. When I entered into this apprenticeship back in 2006, I thought this would be easy sailing as most of the Shibari is taking place on the floor. Well, I was in for a big surprise. On one hand the ties look amazingly simple, on the other hand they are very complex. Even though I am having the opportunity to apply what I am learning in the field \u2014 mostly during my regular\u00a0Kinbaku Live<\/span><\/a> events at\u00a0Studio SIX<\/span><\/a>\u2014 as a kind of \u201chomework\u201d, I am having a hard time catching up with what is being taught to me.<\/span><\/p>\n I have come to realize that the actual shibarikata (bondage patterns) only form a very small percentage of Yukimura-ryu. The essence of the Yukimura style of Kinbaku is \u201cthe way\u201d the rope is applied \u2014 in a very calculated way, in a caressing manner to facilitate a deeply emotional connection between bakushi and model. This will not only open the opportunity for very satisfactory sessions, but will also result in those special (or shall I say unique?) facial expressions that Japanese women in rope are so famous for.\u00a0 All combined, at the end of the day, these are the secrets of shuuchinawa\u00a0(\u7f9e\u6065\u7e04) \u2013 and these techniques involve much, much more than just putting rope on a woman.<\/span><\/p>\n It is these concepts and techniques that are hard to teach \u2014 and consequently hard to learn. After several years of intensive study I am beginning to get a grasp of this. At the same time, I realize that I still have a lot to learn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Please visit Mr Osada Steve\u2019s website to read the original interview in English at TokyoBound on this link. Enjoy! The above calligraphy \n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,25],"tags":[78,79,9,16,6,76],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eventos","category-profiles","tag-cultura-japonesa","tag-ensenanza","tag-osada-steve","tag-relacion-maestrodiscipulo","tag-yukimura-haruki","tag-yukimura-ryu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinbakumania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Harumine\"](\"http:\/\/tokyobound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/harumine-shodo.jpg\")
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