Kitaro Kasukabe (カスカベキタロウ)
Kitaro Kasukabe (カスカベキタロウ) is a Japanese rigger in the Naka-ryū.
Era: 2020s
RIGGER · PHOTOGRAPHER · EDITOR
Tokyo-based rigger, kinbaku photographer and editor / publisher of Kinbaku Magazine Roca. Studio Roca describes him as the operator of the Tokyo-based studio dedicated to editing and publishing Roca. Discover Kinbaku's 2023 Japan report describes Kitaro as a young Japanese student of Naka Akira for rope and Erisa Sato for photography, making Roca through concept, photography, layout, print and fulfillment. KSB Magazine #15 featured him as a Japanese rigger / photographer and publisher of Roca; Yugen Studio / Rope Tales later presented him with Erisa Satoh in a 2025 online class on contemporary kinbaku photography culture in Japan.
School: Naka-ryū
Places
Official links
Sources
- Studio Roca: About catalogue record
- Discover Kinbaku: Japan Trip 2023 catalogue record
- KSB Magazine #15 catalogue record
- Yugen Studio: The Present and Future of Kinbaku Photography Culture in Japan catalogue record
- Kitaro Kasukabe: Roca no Kai membership program catalogue record
- Instagram: Kitaro Kasukabe / @kasukabe.kitaro catalogue record
- lit.link: Kitaro Kasukabe / @kasukabekitaro catalogue record
- X / Twitter: Kitaro Kasukabe / @kasukabekitaro catalogue record
- Yugen Studio: Kitaro Kasukabe in Milan catalogue record
- Instagram: Yugen SM 13 Kitaro, Tenshiko and Rope Tales credit catalogue record
Influences (mutual or directional): Naka Akira.
Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Yugen Studio, Yugen Studio Magazine, Roca Magazine, Kinbaku Society of Berlin.