Knotty Devil

Knotty Devil is a rigger.

Era: 2020s

RIGGER · ARTIST · TEACHER · PERFORMER

Seattle-listed shibari artist, teacher and performer. Shibari Study Podcast EP 13 frames Knotty Devil's rope around flow, connected movement and person-aware tying. Rope in Seattle lists Knottydevil and Pixiebait as a teaching pair, while Twisted Windows documents Knotty Devil & Pixiebait as performers on the 2023 Seattle Erotic Art Festival Aerial & Bondage Stage. Creative Intimacy Program presents Knotty Devil as a shibari practitioner whose work emphasizes movement, connection, pauses and tension. Azzky directly names Knotty Devil as an influence.

School: Independent

Influences (mutual or directional): Azzky.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Twisted Windows.

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: 329
Entities: 246
Connections: 1445
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