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NAWAYA

NAWAYA, 1999-, is a Japanese material in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.

1999-

Era: 2000s

Japanese kinbaku / shibari asanawa rope shop active since 1999. Official NAWAYA pages present it as making and selling high-quality shibari rope, with hand-finished ASANAWA and coiled ASANAWA categories; a current product page describes the red 6.8 mm ASANAWA set as widely used from beginners to advanced users, made from Indian jute and manufactured in Japan. Added as material infrastructure because current European stockist traces connect it to BondageRope.EU and RopeMarks, and RopeMarks discusses Nawaya alongside Ogawa as a Japanese jute rope he uses and stocks. Product variants are not imported.

People associated with NAWAYA: RopeMarks.

Bakushi Map BETA

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.

People: 343
Entities: 269
Connections: 1546
Eras: 9

Each record is sourced from public material — Nawapedia, ShibariStudy, festival rosters, interviews, archived studio pages — and curated by a single researcher.

Beta — structure and interface are public; data 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:

deshi — direct apprenticeship
influence — peer study, mentorship
thinner colours — venue, magazine, production
card colour = school / lineage

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.

Methodology Sources

Thanks to RopeMarks, Asiana, RomKnots, Nick Freerider, Aleksei Kalatsky, Federico Kirigami, bluefeathers

Bakushi Map by Vsevolod Moreuton · · facts CC0 · text CC BY-SA · pussynawa@proton.me