Official Successor of Yukimura-ryu Kinbaku / Founder, Grace Rope Lab

Murasaki began her career as a professional Mistress in 2002. Through that work, she encountered her mentor Yukimura Haruki and began studying under him in 2003, honing her skills as his on-set assistant during film productions.

In 2014, she became the first Japanese person and first woman to be certified as “Yukimura-ryu Nawaasobi Instructor No. 10.”

Following her mentor’s passing in 2016, she has dedicated herself as his official successor to preserving his philosophy, techniques, and artistry.

In 2018, she retired from professional Mistress work and shifted her focus fully to transmitting the techniques and ideas she developed through Yukimura-ryu and her extensive session experience.

Beginning with Los Angeles in 2017, she has conducted workshops around the world and earned international recognition. Her private lessons in Japan draw students from across the globe — including studio owners, instructors, performers, professional dominants and masters, and seasoned practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and traditions, all united by a shared resonance with her approach.

Backed by more than two decades of experience, her teaching goes far beyond the imitation of forms. Drawing on her years as a professional Mistress, she places the highest priority on psychological nuance and communication. She is particularly known for her instruction in the art of tying men and in dialogue with the receiver — the latter explored through a distinctly feminine perspective. She works with both riggers and receivers of any gender.

Selected Workshop Credits (as lead instructor)

• 2025: Bangkok, Berlin
• 2024: Berlin
• 2023: New York
• 2022: Milan
• 2018: Shanghai
• 2017: Los Angeles

As Assistant to Yukimura Haruki

• 2014: Sydney, Melbourne
• 2012: Los Angeles

Recent Activities

In March 2026, on the occasion of the tenth memorial anniversary of her mentor Yukimura Haruki, she organized a two-day commemorative event (Memorial Café). Bringing together students and admirers from Japan and abroad, the event served as a space to reaffirm the bonds of the tradition — and was a resounding success.

While continuing to carry forward Yukimura-ryu as a living traditional Japanese kinbaku lineage, she has also launched the project Grace Rope Lab.

Grounded in the observation that the somatic experience of rope can produce positive shifts in the brain and psyche, she is working to illuminate those mechanisms — and is convinced that dialogue and movement mediated through rope can serve as tools for self-integration and deep human connection in contemporary life. She is currently designing experiments and practices that explore the full range of what rope can be.

Her aim is to honor the tradition and its aesthetics while proposing new forms of rope practice — ones that can support the mental and physical flourishing of people today and into the next generation.