Monad

Monad is a Portuguese rigger.

Era: 2020s

RIGGER · PERFORMER

Lisbon-based shibari facilitator and performer, usually credited with Morgana. The Joy Spot says Monad and Morgana have practiced rope bondage since 2017 and are part of the Knot Lounge project, where they give workshops and performances. Sub in the City lists them as Lisbon-based shibari facilitators and performers for its 2027 Conscious Kink Retreat, and a 2025 music-video credit lists Morgana and Monad as riggers. A Yugen SM N14 public post credits Morgana and Monad in a shooting for Kuma.

School: Independent

Collaborators: Morgana.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: 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