Knot Here Amsterdam

Knot Here Amsterdam, 2024-, is a Dutch studio in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.

2024-

Era: 2020s

Amsterdam-area rope space and event organizer. Knot Here's official site presents it as a community rope space organizing rope jams in Amsterdam and aiming to create a welcoming place for the community to gather and share rope. Its public event archive documents a move from referral-based rope jams into public rope jams, Kinbaku Night performances, and intensive workshops with Asiana / Door, Kurogami / Shiawase, Soptik / Sansei, Stuart / PuurKris and other guests. Event pages describe a multi-floor rope venue with twelve bamboo suspension points, social space and floorwork space.

People associated with Knot Here Amsterdam: Asiana, Door, Andrea Kurogami, Shiawase, Soptik.

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