We were doing an experimental shoot with this evening with MaYa as model and, as is often our practice, a dog-earned copy of one of Sugiura’s books for tying inspiration. As most of his photos seem to feature old style rigs on bamboo, we set up the pole and the newly recovered backdrops I had …
As you might have seen I recently added shinai, those bamboo practice swords that appear in a lot of Japanese rope movies and photos being used variously to poke and insert. If you haven’t check out my eBay listing or the shoot with MaYa. A lot have people have asked me about an implement about …