Zehn Meter

Zehn Meter is a rigger.

Era: 2020s

RIGGER · ARTIST · PHOTOGRAPHER

Zürich-based shibari artist / rigger and photographer using the handle @zehn.meter. Linktree presents Zehn Meter as a shibari artist and points to Salvatore Viola's official site; the official site describes Salvatore Viola as an art director, urbex photographer and shibari artist in Zürich, Switzerland. ShibariNews frames Zehn Meter's rope work as emotionally nuanced and visually elegant. The public link hub also points to Instagram, FetLife, rope recommendations, a Switzerland workshop note and Ropehelp. Azzky directly names Zehn Meter as an influence.

School: Independent

Influences (mutual or directional): Azzky.

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