Passport of Nawa

Japanese Rope Passport (the ground version)

Here is the pdf. This will help you progress through your journey of Japanese rope. This is a work in progress, please forward suggestions and corrections.

Below, you will find a breakdown of the cover. Until then, I will note that this is a ground/below-the-ring version that, if wanted, can prepare you for going above the ring and doing suspensions. Hopefully, there will be both version two for the ground and a suspension/above-the-ring version.

The concept here is to mark your progress along your path for shibari/ kinbaku/et al.

We offer the passport for your journey within the realm of Japanese rope. The layout is similar to a traditional passport, beginning with biographical & biological info for you, followed by 26 entry pages with four journey stamps per page—two pages per tie, i.e., one spread each. Hopefully, after doing a tie eight times, you can show your proficiency and will move along with your journey. Each of the eight should be on their own day with two clean, and on a day you didn’t re-learn or review it. In other words, you could show it with proficiency while cold (mentally, not temperature).

There are some additional pages, including a negotiation and a pre-play checklist, and 4 of the above 26 pages are “other” ties where you can progress on your own with ties of your choosing. Even within the 11 selected ties, you are given latitude to allow you to mix and match versions of the ties. However, in addition to “cleanly done,” several sub-checkoffs take note: speed, reversible, and suspendable.

Ties included in the primary series are:

  • Single Column
  • Double Column
  • Munter
  • Chest Harness (Non-TK)
  • Takate Kote
  • Hip Harness
  • Futomomo
  • Ebi & Cross Legged Ties
  • Hogtie
  • Arm Binder
  • Body Corset/Karada
  • Others
  • Others

The cover:

  • Up top
    • 日本国 : Japan
    • 縄 : Nawa = rope
    • 旅券 : Ryoken = Passport
  • Rope lifestyle flag (See Below)
  • Under the flag
    • 縛り : Shibari = to tie / bondage
    • 緊縛 : kinbaku = bind tightly / bondage
    • 緊縛美 : kinbakubi /kinbaku-bi = the beauty of binding tight (early term for hojojutsu turned art & erotic bondage before shibari & kinbaku became the ‘common’ terms)
    • 捕縄術 : hojōjutsu = traditional Japanese martial art of restraining a person / ancient method of prisoner restraint (where it all started)
  • Footnote (in black)
    • 寝技 : Newaza = groundwork
    • 床技 : Tokowaza = floor technique
  • Tying it together at the bottom
    • 美術 : Bijutsu = art (visual/physical)
    • 責め技 : Seme-waza (zeme)* = torture techniques
    • 侘寂 : Wabi-sabi ( Wasabi) = complex concept, look it up your damn self*

Rope flag

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