Nawa: Kinbakushi Naka Akira to Shibarareru Onnatachi 縄 緊縛師・奈加あきらと縛られる女たち
Hanabusa Kannon's 2025 book about the rope master Naka Akira and the women he ties, published by Taiyō Tosho and described by it as both nonfiction and fiction.
Nawa: Kinbakushi Naka Akira to Shibarareru Onnatachi (“Rope: The Rope Master Naka Akira and the Women Who Are Tied”) is a book by the novelist Hanabusa Kannon, published by Taiyō Tosho on February 17, 2025. The publisher files it under nonfiction; its press release gives the format as a 240-page paperback.
The book’s subject is Naka Akira, a Japanese kinbakushi. The publisher’s blurb opens with the words 責め縄 and 狂い縄 (the first is seme-nawa, torment rope), presents him as a rope master whose harsh, tradition-bound tying has won him ardent support worldwide, and says the book portrays his life together with the women he ties. A press release issued through PR Times on April 18, 2025, announcing a launch talk by Naka and Hanabusa at the Osaka venue Lateral on April 27, describes the book in one passage as an account of his hard life and of the little-known world of kinbaku, and in another as fiction about Naka and that world. It adds that the text carries many images.
According to the release, Hanabusa lives in Kyoto and made a debut in 2010 when the novel Hanamatsuri won the first Dan Oniroku Prize.