Murasaki Haruan
Yukimura-ryu instructor who, according to Karada House's profile, began studying under Yukimura Haruki in 2003, was certified in 2014 as Instructor No. 10 and has taught workshops in cities including Los Angeles, Shanghai, Milan, New York, Berlin and Bangkok.
Murasaki Haruan is an instructor of Yukimura-ryu, the kinbaku style of Yukimura Haruki. The Berlin studio Karada House introduces Murasaki on its organizer page as an official successor of the style and founder of the project Grace Rope Lab.
Lineage
Karada House says Murasaki began training with Yukimura Haruki after their first meeting in 2003. The listing for the 2022 Milan workshop at Yugen Studio adds that Yukimura gave Murasaki the Yukimura-ryu name Haruan (春晏), and that Murasaki was among his first students once he began formal instruction in the style in 2006. The same listing dates a first stage performance to a 2008 Yukimura-ryu presentation at a theater in Shinjuku.
Karada House lists Murasaki as an assistant to Yukimura on his workshops in Los Angeles in 2012 and in Sydney and Melbourne in 2014. Karada House says that in 2014 Murasaki became Yukimura-ryu Nawaasobi Instructor No. 10, and describes Murasaki as the first Japanese person and also the first woman to hold that certification. After Yukimura died in 2016, the profile says, the work has been to preserve his philosophy, methods and artistry as his official successor, and the Yugen Studio listing says a small group of students was taken on from then.
Teaching
The Karada House profile lists workshops with Murasaki as main instructor in Los Angeles (2017), Shanghai (2018), Milan (2022), New York (2023), Berlin (2024) and Berlin and Bangkok (2025). It also mentions private lessons in Japan and says students come from many countries.
The profile emphasizes psychological nuance and communication and says the teaching welcomes people of all genders in tying and receiving roles. It names tying men, and dialogue with the person being tied, as areas Murasaki is known for.
Karada House’s listing for Foundations of Yukimura Ryu, scheduled for 26 and 27 October 2024, describes an introduction to the style that uses less rope and simple poses, for partners who want to communicate through restrained rope. The listing states that it is not meant for people expecting semenawa or more performative styles. The first day covers communicating with one rope, and the second applies those basics to typical poses. The class was announced as taught in Japanese with simultaneous English translation. Yugen Studio’s listing for the Milan workshop on 6 November 2022, shown as sold out, names single-rope interaction, nawa no asobi (rope play) and the Yukimura-ryu gote among its topics.
Karada House also listed a two-day Yukimura Ryu Masterclass for 23 and 24 August 2025, built around renbaku, a format where the instructor and students tie one person in turn.
Recent work
The profile reports a two-day Memorial Café held by Murasaki in March 2026 to mark ten years since Yukimura’s death. It also says Grace Rope Lab investigates whether the bodily experience of rope can shift mind and brain.