Toronawa, a.k.a トロ

I'm a Tokyo-based underground artist. This site is where I share the work I create on my nocturnal journeys into the city’s neon back-alley bars. Here, I document the raw, the subversive, and the unpolished fragments of Tokyo’s underground scene.

Through the camera lenses, I introduce a subculture of queers, rebels, punks, and outsiders. Free spirits bound by a fascination with rope and a fierce refusal to be absorbed by the social machine. Free spirits diving into the realm of altered states, sensory extremes, and unapologetic exploration of the human condition.

Rope

Rope is at the centre of most things I create. Started learning Japanese rope, Kinbaku in 2019.

In 2023, after three years of study at Milkyway Tokyo under Waka-sensei, I became their first non-Japanese rope instructor. I now perform regularly at my weekly event there, the Toro Kinbaku Salon, where I showcase live performances.