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Polo Picart

Polo Picart is a Swiss rigger.

Era: 2020s

RIGGER · PHOTOGRAPHER

Geneva-based photographer and shibari performer, also billed as Polo Cosme / Polo Shibari in his Barcelona show materials. His official Shibari bio presents him as the rigger for the Erotic Museum of Barcelona, with 150+ shows, a path that began with photo shoots in Switzerland and France, earlier Hatha Yoga / dance teaching, and a self-taught rope practice built from close observation of Japanese masters and Western riggers. His public photography site and exhibition archive place his broader body / dance / nude-art photography work in Geneva and across Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, France and Spain, while Time Out, La Vanguardia and Fever document the Barcelona Live Shibari Show / exhibition context.

School: Independent

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Live Shibari Show at Erotic Museum.

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