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My name is Keisuke Higurashi, and I am a photographer and the son of Haruki Yukimura. One of the promises we made before his death was to "publish a chronological collection of Haruki Yukimura's works." Even after he had been given a year to live, he continued to work diligently every month to fulfill this promise, literally sacrificing himself to leave behind these works. Yukimura expressed emotions and affections through bondage. I would like to hold a photo exhibition of some of the works that captured these "forms" and "objects" in photographs, marking the 10th anniversary of his death. I have launched this project hoping to enlist your support to deliver a better exhibition, one that is worthy of confronting the works he left behind once again. These are the things that Yukimura faced with his work until the very end and left behind. In order to share them with as many people as possible and preserve them for the future, we would be grateful for your warm support. Thank you very much.
Date: October 8, 2026 Add to Google Calendar
Venue: Gallery location TBA
Location: Asakusabashi and Omotesando, Japan
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Exhibition and Support Options
Supporters can participate at several levels. A ¥3,000 support tier allows contributors simply to help fund the exhibition, while a ¥5,000 exhibition ticket plan includes a one-day ticket providing entry to both exhibition venues, with re-entry permitted throughout the day.
Other rewards include postcard sets featuring Yukimura’s kinbaku photography, previously unpublished photographs from his later years, and work by practitioners of the Yukimura-ryu lineage. The listed rigger and model pairings include Harumayu (Ibarako) with Ayahime Ichika, Haruyoi (Himuro Eve) with Shizuki Iroha, and Haruan (Murasaki) with Akane.
Several photobook tiers are also available. One planned B5, 40-page book will feature newly photographed work by Yukimura-ryu disciples, while another B5, 50-page volume will collect previously unpublished photographs from Yukimura’s later years.
A larger A4, approximately 80-page photobook is planned around work Yukimura photographed during the film era. Limited memorial tiers also offer individual pieces of original reversal film used to photograph his kinbaku work, preserved inside acrylic display blocks.
About Yukimura Haruki
Haruki Yukimura was one of the most distinctive figures in modern Japanese kinbaku. His work emphasized intimacy, emotion, vulnerability, and the psychological relationship between rigger and model rather than simply elaborate rope structures. The style that developed around his practice became known as Yukimura-ryu, and his influence continues through students and practitioners in Japan and internationally.
This exhibition offers a particularly significant opportunity to encounter Yukimura through the photographic record he deliberately continued creating during the final period of his life. The project is not simply retrospective. In the words of its organizers, it is an effort to bring the work to more people and ensure that what Yukimura left behind continues into the future.
About Keisuke Higurashi
Keisuke Higurashi is a photographer and the son of Haruki Yukimura. He is the organizer of The World of Haruki Yukimura exhibition project and has taken on the task of preserving and presenting his father’s photographic legacy. Higurashi explains that, while Yukimura was still alive, the two made a promise that he would one day present a “chronicle” of Yukimura’s work. Even after receiving a terminal prognosis, Yukimura continued producing photographs each month with that future presentation in mind. For Higurashi, the tenth anniversary exhibition is therefore both a memorial and the fulfillment of a commitment made directly to his father, bringing together surviving work in a form intended to carry Yukimura’s artistic legacy forward.
