Ren Yagami (八神蓮), born 1984, is a Japanese nawashi in the Yagami-ryū.
1984–present
Era: 2010s
NAWASHI · TEACHER
Japanese nawashi born in Nagoya in 1984, creator of Yagami Style / sekibaku and founder of Yagami Juku. His official bio says he began self-tying at age 17, explored BDSM and SM clubs, then encountered Succubus in Tokyo, managed by Mistress Nawashi Kanna. In 2011 he asked Kanna to take him as an apprentice and learned the basics of Akechi-style rope; from 2014 he worked independently on his own style and founded Yagami Juku the same year. The official Yagami Style page frames sekibaku as a rope approach shaped by jujutsu, anatomy, psychology and everyday practice, focused on reducing body load for both model and rigger. The current curriculum is described through Shoden, Chuden, Joden and Kaiden levels, with Semenawa treated separately.
School: Yagami-ryū
Teachers / direct apprenticeship lineage: Akechi Kanna.
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.
The map currently holds 320 people,
238 studios, events, works and context nodes
and 1394 documented connections across
9 eras. Each record is sourced
from public material — Nawapedia, ShibariStudy, festival
rosters, interviews, archived studio pages — and curated by a
single researcher.
This is a beta version: the structure, sources
and interface are public enough to explore, but the map 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 — solid amber for direct apprenticeship
(deshi), dashed for influence or peer study, thinner
coloured lines for venues, magazines, or productions. 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.