Akuaku
Akuaku is a Japanese teacher in the Ichinawa-ryū.
Era: 2010s
TEACHER · PERFORMER
Tokyo / Nice rope teacher, performer and author also credited as Marc/Aku Aku. Anatomie Studio's 2022 workshop bio states that he has lived in Japan since 2004, encountered shibari / kinbaku in 2006, trained through the Ichinawa rope group and graduated as a rope instructor in 2012. The current record clarifies that his primary class instruction in that period was with Otonawa and Shigure rather than Kinoko personally; Kinoko context is preserved as Ichinawakai teaching, installation and show collaboration through 2012-2023. His rope work is described as sensual, connective and story/visual focused; he authored The Japanese Rope Kamasutra in 2020. EURIX 2019 presenter, 2022 beginner-course teacher and 2023 special guest.
School: Ichinawa-ryū
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Official links
Sources
- Anatomie Studio: Erotic Rope with Akuaku & Babycash catalogue record
- Anatomie Studio: Night Jam with Akuaku & Babycash catalogue record
- Rope Podcast EP86: Marc / Akuaku catalogue record
- Bluesky: Marc Marukunawa / @marukunawa.bsky.social catalogue record
- Kinbaku Today: Review - Japanese Rope Kama Sutra 1 (Jonathan Ryan) catalogue record
- Kinbaku Today: Review - Japanese Rope Kama Sutra 1 (Yagami Ren) catalogue record
- Kinbaku Today: The Japanese Rope Kamasutra Volume 2 catalogue record
- BalkanBound Telegram archive: WisDomme & NyxRope catalogue record
- EURIX archive: 2010s performer records catalogue record
- EURIX archive: XX / XXIII 2022-2023 presenter traces catalogue record
- Encordages Lemaniques: Workshops avec Marc Marukunawa catalogue record
- Shibari Lounge: AkuAku and Babycash 2022 catalogue record
- Shibari Lounge: AkuAku 2026 catalogue record
- Instagram: Shibari Lounge AkuAku workshop and Marukunawa / Momijinawa performance catalogue record
Influences (mutual or directional): WisDomme.
Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Ichinawakai, EURIX 2010s, EURIX 2020s, Anatomie Studio, Encordages Lémaniques, Shibari Lounge.