Takase Shinnosuke (たかせ秦之助) たかせ秦之助
A Tokyo bakushi who runs the Shibaraku salon, project and school, teaching an embrace-centered, dialogue-based style of rope. He also organizes rope safety and first-aid courses, study groups and show events, and writes on rope technique and culture.
Takase Shinnosuke is a bakushi working mainly in the Tokyo area. His own site presents three activities under the Shibaraku name: a rope school, a salon for people who already tie, and what he calls a kinbaku activity project, organized around research and practice. Its stated aim is for rope experiences to build up, be referred back to and be updated over time, rather than being used up as one-off events. His site does not say when he began tying or name a teacher.
School and salon
The school, Shibaraku-shiki, offers public technical classes for beginners and for experienced people, covering rope handling, how to approach the body and how to think about the structure of a tie. The method’s own site describes the style as dialogue-based kinbaku that applies contemporary technique to an embracing, hug-like practice, which it calls hōbaku, and says lessons are taught in small groups. The salon, Kinbaku Salon Shibaraku, is a community space where people who practice rope share experiences and sensations.
Events and research
The timeline on his site lists a steady series of events from 2019. They include shows that combine rope with music and light, magic or DJ sets; research meetings and study groups running from 2019 into 2025; a rope sketching event; tea gatherings on rope and kimono in 2022 and 2023; and an open-call photo exhibition on the theme of hands tied behind the back in 2023. In 2024 he held a course on body learning in rope and a philosophy dialogue on kinbaku, and in 2025 ran a course called Shibari-banashi and started a rope research event that the site lists as ongoing.
Safety training is a recurring part of this work. In 2023 he planned and ran a course on emergency response to avoid rope accidents, and in 2025 a rope life-saving course at which he also spoke.
Writing and media
He has written a blog on note since 2020 and has run a YouTube channel since 2022. The method’s site carries an essay series on the culture and present state of kinbaku, grouped under technique, interaction and culture. His site also lists appearances in two films, in 2021 and 2023, rope supervision for a manga in 2024 and for a film in 2026, the planning and editing of a feature on contemporary kinbaku for the magazine Roca in 2024, and a newspaper column in 2026.