Japanese kinbakushi distinct from Salon Kitagawa's Kitagawa / 喜多川. Nawapedia identifies Shuhei Kitagawa / 北川周平 as born circa 1978, working at Roppongi Mistress from 2005 and mode et Baroque from 2008. Onawa Asobi performer records list him in the 2011 and 2012 Tokyo rosters, and TV Guide credits him as appearing in Jouni Hokkanen's 2010 documentary short Kinbaku alongside Osada Steve, Haruki Yukimura, Hajime Kinoko and others. No source in this pass supports making Shuhei the Kitagawa teacher / influence named in Kasumi Hourai's bio.
School: Independent
Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Onawa Asobi.
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.
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.