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.
Editorial note
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.
People & projects
- Kitaro Kasukabe カスカベキタロウ editor and publisher
- Kawahara Azumi essay contributor, issue 4
- Roca Magazine Atlas entry
Linked names open Atlas profiles.