Gordias

Gordias is a Polish rigger.

Era: 2020s

RIGGER · PERFORMER

Polish shibari rigger and performer, often appearing with Anna Aurora / Kinky Aurora. Onawa Asobi Europe lists Gordias & Anna Aurora as Polish performers and gives Gordias's self-bio: first encountered rope bondage in 2016 and, from 2020, dedicated more energy to kinbaku after being inspired by DocVale's tying and encouraged by his words. A Yugen SM N14 public post later credits Gordias in a shooting with Aurora for Kirigami.

School: Independent

Influences (mutual or directional): Docvale.

Collaborators: Anna Aurora.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Onawa Asobi Europe, Yugen Studio Magazine.

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: 327
Entities: 246
Connections: 1441
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

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