2021– Magazine Editorial note

Roca Magazine

Languages Japanese / English

Confirmed for issue 4 (February 2024) and issue 5 (July 2025).

A Japanese magazine combining contemporary rope photography, essays and reports on kinbaku culture. Its fourth issue, published in February 2024, has 136 colour pages with Japanese and English text.

Issue 4 pairs accounts of why people practise rope with Azumi Kawahara's essay on illustration in Showa-era SM magazines, placing present-day photography alongside historical visual culture.

Cover of Roca Magazine issue 5
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