Prague Shibari Fest 2010s, 2016–2019, is a Czech event in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.
2016–2019
Era: 2010s
2010s slice of Prague Shibari Festival, a three-day rope event held twice a year in Prague since 2016. The festival focuses on Japanese bondage, workshops, performances and rope jams across levels, roles and genders. This founding-era node keeps Soptik's Prague organization, Subspace pre-party / local scene context and early international presenters such as Gestalta, Boris Mosafir and Mango / Akechi Kanna visually attached to the pre-pandemic festival circuit.
An interactive genealogy of bakushi and kinbaku —
the Japanese rope traditions that grew from Edo-period hojōjutsu
through twentieth-century SM magazines into today's global
shibari scene.
The map currently holds 320 people,
238 studios, events, works and context nodes
and 1394 documented connections across
9 eras. Each record is sourced
from public material — Nawapedia, ShibariStudy, festival
rosters, interviews, archived studio pages — and curated by a
single researcher.
This is a beta version: the structure, sources
and interface are public enough to explore, but the map is still
being expanded and corrected.
How to read it
Vertical position is time: the 1800s at the
top, the 2020s at the bottom. Cards are coloured by
school or lineage; lines between them carry
the relationship type — solid amber for direct apprenticeship
(deshi), dashed for influence or peer study, thinner
coloured lines for venues, magazines, or productions. Click a
card to open its bio, antecedents and descendants. Filters in
the top bar narrow by era, entity type, or relationship.
Caveats
Inclusion is selective: a person or studio appears only when
there's enough public evidence to anchor them meaningfully.
Missing birth years are deliberate — many practitioners don't
publicise them. Errors and gaps will exist; corrections
welcome at pussynawa@proton.me.