This map is a research graph of shibari / kinbaku people, schools, studios, festivals, publications, platforms, material infrastructure and historical context. It is not a complete directory and it is not a ranking.
What The Map Shows
Nodes are added when they help explain transmission, scene infrastructure or historical context:
- people with public rope identities as teachers, performers, organizers, authors, photographers, riggers, models, rope makers or lineage carriers
- recurring studios, dojos, festivals, conventions, communities and education platforms
- publications, films, production labels and material projects only when they shaped rope culture or connect multiple existing nodes
- context nodes when a historical, regional, technological or political factor explains why clusters moved or changed
The graph is intentionally selective. A person or event may be important locally and still stay out of the visible graph if the public sources are too thin or if adding the node would create an isolated leaf with little explanatory value.
Sources
Preferred sources are official pages, event rosters, studio biographies, interviews, archived festival pages, publisher pages, public talks and stable community documentation. Directory rows and social posts are used as leads, not as enough evidence on their own, unless they corroborate an already public role.
Each visible node should have at least one public link. Internally, repeated sources are tracked once and reused across related people, entities, relationships and works so the same evidence does not need to be duplicated in every biography.
Relationship Types
The map distinguishes relationship strength:
deshi: explicit formal apprenticeship, certification, or lineage relationship.influence: workshop study, private lessons, named stylistic influence, mentor wording, video study, or non-formal learning.dojo: founded, teaches at, runs, belongs to, or anchors a structured school / studio / education container.performance: presenter, workshop, festival, convention, stage, or event appearance.collab: co-created, co-organized, co-founded, partner project, or durable peer collaboration.magazine/film: publication, media, or production relationship when the media object is structurally relevant.
Workshop attendance alone is not modeled as deshi. Event co-presence alone is not a relationship between two people.
Living People And Privacy
For living or contemporary people, the map uses public scene names by default. Birth years, legal names, private residences and adult-media aliases are not added unless the person uses them in a stable public professional context and the information is necessary for the graph.
Missing birth years are expected. They are not a data-quality failure.
Locations are public scene anchors, not private addresses. They may represent a studio city, festival city, public teaching base, diaspora context or country-level scene context when a city is not public.
Adult-Media And Sensitive Sources
Adult-media sources are handled narrowly. They are included only when they support a rope-specific public role: rigger, bondage director, rope consultant, production rope educator, selected rope-video work, or a production project that materially shaped rope visual culture.
The map does not import filmographies, one-off performer credits, scraped adult databases, ambiguous aliases or links that expose private identity beyond a public rope role.
Corrections
Send corrections to pussynawa@proton.me.
Corrections should include a stable public source and a specific claim:
- which node or relationship is wrong
- what should change
- the source URL supporting the correction
- whether the change affects privacy, identity, dates, location, school / lineage, or relationship type
Preferred correction outcomes are precise: fix a bio sentence, downgrade deshi to influence, remove an unsupported edge, add a source link, or mark a candidate as source-only. Broad claims without public sources should be parked for review rather than applied directly.