Bondage

On this page I will tell a little about the different types of bondages I use on missie.
To make a good bondage it's important that you have some knowledge about different knots, and when to use them - see more on the Rope page.

There will be a lot of pictures of missie, especially when I'm getting better doing the bondages. You can already now see some on our pictures.

Japanese Bondage
Japanese Bondage is not only a beautiful and aesthetic decoration of the body, it's very sensual, intimate and deeply erotic.
We use Japanese Bondage for playing, to express the dominance and surrender to it, to give pleasure, to release feelings and tensions and.... We also use as pure pleasure and relaxation.
We can block everything else and totally commit to our small world, with the two of us, our play, our feelings. Just us.
It's like therapy - It's like meditation and cleans out our sole's *ss*.

Some of the Japanese names for bondage is: Nawa shibari, Kinbaku and Sokubaku. There are even more names for this art.
These and many other Japanese names are to be found on our Words and explanations page.

But search for your own style. Often it's best to look and observe another person doing the bondage, after that you will be filled with ideas and enthusiasm.

One of the quickest bondages are the Hojojutsu or freely translated "the art of capturing/restraining prisoners".

WARNING
If you want to experiment with Hojojutsu, it is very important - at all times - to observe the person being bound because many of the technique involves rope placed around the neck.

On each side of the neck there are a pressure sensitive area controlling your blood pressure. When this area register a pressure it is recognized as a increase in your blood pressure. Your heart and cardiovascular system will try to compensate by reducing the flow of blood to the vital organ, especially the brain. This can cause instantaneously loss of consciousness! And I mean instantaneously, if the pressure is high. This can cause the bound person to collapse... And it's a little annoying to get a broken nose each time you "play" with your partner*SS*
 
 

The following is a summary from the book Nawa (1985):

The story of Hojojutsu starts in the feudal Japan, where there was a great number of clans, who taught their warriors (bushi) war-techniques. Most of the clans (Ryu) had techniques, which included the use of ropes (nawa) to capture and hold prisoners.

In the early Edo period (1600 - 1868) there started a more civilized way of capturing, where you didn't brutally torture the prisoners before they went to prison. Rules were made to protect the prisoner from being mutilated before he received his o sentence. In this period hojojutso developed from a brutal way to a more civilized way of capturing prisoners, and must of the ryu used this new form. In the feudal Japan it was a disgrace to be captured and have a rope placed around the neck, and then to be brought to a judge. Knots on the rope was very disgraceful and many saw this as a bigger shame than being killed in combat, and mostly all bushi refused capture.

If the correct procedure during the capture, wasn't followed, the person conduction the capture could be charged with treason.

If the rope didn't have knots, it wasn't looked upon as a bondage, and therefore not disgraceful. In these cases the term "binding" was used..

Samurai's, taking prisoners rarely used the rope, because they saw it not as honorable. They let the bushi (not-noble) or the officials from the Shogun do the job. 

There was a long list of ropes and chains, which all were measured in shaku (Japanese measuring-unit for approx. 30 cm). The rope used for holding prisoners was called haya nawa.

Hemp rope was used for "real" bondages/bindings, while silk was used for training.

The Honnawa was typically 66 shaku (20 m.) or 54 shaku (16 m.) but could also be found in lengths of 9-23 m. Hayanawa was always 22 shaku (6.5 m). The length of the Kaginawa is not clear, but normally it was 13 shaku (3,9 m).

Apart from the different types of rope mentioned mere, the guards also had a short rope of 0,5 m in length. This was used when the prisoner was placed in "sezia". (The formal sitting position, where the prisoner was placed on his knees with the weight on his heels, and the arms forced on his back). Both thumbs and big-toes was tied with the rope. Sometimes the guards just tied the thumbs and let the rope to the Honnawa and tie it by the prisoners neck.

There are four rules in hojojutsu:
1. The prisoner are not allowed to get free.
2: The ropes may not give the prisoner physical or mental damages.
3: Bystanders are not allowed to see what technique is used, or by the result, what technique has been used.
4: The result must be beautiful to look at.

The reason for rule #3 was not so much to keep the techniques secret, but more to prevent criminals to learn the techniques and so be able to get free. The different techniques would vary from clan to clan, and when the prisoner was surrendered to another clan, the ropes was untied, so the new guards couldn't learn the techniques. Each team of guards consisted of a group of four persons, and the three of them would shield the fourth, while he tied up the prisoner.

The ropes was made in 4 colors, and the symbolism changed through the times. According the first traditions from the Edo period, the 4 colors was associated with the 4 times of the years, the 4 corners of the world and the 4 Chinese fabulous monsters guarding them. The color of the ropes followed the time of the year, and the prisoner was placed so he was looking to the corresponding corner of the world.

The colors and associations was divided like this:
Blue: spring, east, the blue dragon's sign
Red: summer, south, the red firebird's sign
White: easter, west, the white tiger's sign.
Black: winter, north, the black turtle's sign.

During the "day of the dogs" in the end of July and start of august, a yellow was used.

In the end of the Edo period the colors was reduced to 2: White and indigo. Their colors now associated to what type of guards using them. .

The usage of hayanawa.
The ideally way of using the hawanawa was tying it in less than 10 seconds, while making it look easy and beautiful. It was not allowed to hurt the prisoner. The rope was only used on suspects, and because the person was not convicted for anything it was not allowed to use knots on the rope. This was to avoid disgrace. It also meant it was fast to make. The end of the rope was normally tied with some windings around the hands, and the guard holding the free end..

Three bindings using hayanawa.
This is not a bondage, since no knots are used. The noose named in the description is a jakuguchi.
These descriptions and pictures, are taken from Nawa (1985: p.197-199).

Words:
hayanawa: "fast rope" a short rope used to capture the prisoner with.
hiro: a traditional Japanese linear measure. Approx. the same as the English fathom or 1.828 m. The traditional linear measurements in the old Japan was not standardized, but could wary from province to province.
hojojutsu: the art of using a rope for capturing, binding and transporting suspects and criminals in the Japanese middle age and in the period thereafter. The method was used by torimono.
hon-nawa: "the primary rope" the long rope (16-20 m.) used for restraining and transporting the suspect safely.
jakuguchi: a small noose at the end of a torinawa.
kaginawa: a rope with a hook in one end.
torimono: special trained guards which normally was ranked just below samurai.
torinawa: the name for any rope used in hojo-jutsu.