Shibaru Fest, 2026, is a Russian event in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.
2026
Era: 2020s
Moscow three-day Shibaru festival format scheduled for July 17-19, 2026. A public AREWAZOVI repost preserved in the Sirin da Alkonost Telegram archive presents SHIBARU FEST 2026 as a program of workshops, lectures, free tying, market, social space and performances. The schedule names workshop / lecture blocks by Nick Freerider, Master Set, Sergei Libido, Yakov Kinkknight, Nikita Ropekit, Arya Dark, Alex Hitch and Anastasia Afanasyeva, and performance traces including Master Set, august with Jane, Aleksey Poryadnov with Dariia, Zévsa with Anya Vzroslaya, Sirin and Alkonost, Yakov Kinkknight with Vika Vechereyet, Nick Freerider with august and others. Modeled separately from `shibaru-community` because the published festival schedule creates an event-level bridge among many current Russian-scene nodes.
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.