Esinem
Esinem is a British nawashi in the Osada / Western.
Era: 2000s
NAWASHI · TEACHER
British kinbaku practitioner and educator based in London. One of the West's early adopters of Japanese rope bondage. Studied under Arisue Go, Osada Steve, Hajime Kinoko, Ranki Kazami, Akira Naka, and Yukimura Haruki. Co-organiser of BOUND (Europe's premier monthly shibari event, London) and the London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage. Represented the UK at Japan's first international kinbaku event, Toubaku. Collaborated with fashion designer Tom Ford (2013). Co-teaches ESINEM Shibari Classes with partner Nina Russ. Author of the first English-language kinbaku tutorial DVD series "Japanese Rope Bondage: Tying people, not parcels."
School: Osada / Western
Places
Official links
Sources
- ESINEM Rope: About us catalogue record
- WeGotTickets: BOUND - Rope Jam at The Flying Dutchman catalogue record
- Nawapedia: Gorgone catalogue record
- Stranger Tickets: About My Masochism with Gorgone catalogue record
- Studio Kink: Nawarei catalogue record
- Stella Spei: Biographie & Références catalogue record
- Nina Russ official site catalogue record
- ESINEM Shibari Classes catalogue record
- ESINEM Shibari Classes: Simple to complex catalogue record
- EURIX archive: 2010s performer records catalogue record
- RopeFest Moscow 2023 homepage / RFMSK23 news archive catalogue record
- Resident Advisor: London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage 2009 catalogue record
- WeGotTickets: The London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage catalogue record
- WeGotTickets: The 2010 London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage catalogue record
- Resident Advisor: London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage 2010 catalogue record
- WeGotTickets: The 2011 London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage catalogue record
- Oriental Bittersweet: Toubaku 2011 report catalogue record
Influences (mutual or directional): Arisue Go, Osada Steve, Hajime Kinoko, Kazami Ranki, Yukimura Haruki, Naka Akira, Nawarei, Stella Spei, Nina Russ.
Influenced by: Global Workshop Circuit.
Collaborators: Gorgone.
Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: BOUND London, ESINEM Shibari Classes, EURIX 2010s, RopeFest 2010s, London Festival of Rope Art / Japanese Bondage, Toubaku.