Federico Kirigami

Federico Kirigami is an Italian nawashi.

Era: 2010s

NAWASHI · TEACHER

Italian kinbakushi, educator and performer based in Milan. Rope Tales says he has performed as a rigger since 2011, moved progressively toward Japanese-style bondage, founded / teaches through School of Rope in Milan from 2016, and was a certified Kinbaku LuXuria instructor from 2018 to 2022 after an exam with Riccardo Wildties. With Marta Tenshiko he has worked since 2011, ran a smaller Milan venue from 2016 to 2020, and opened Yugen Studio in 2020. Current Rope Tales text presents Kirigami as working independently through Yugen Studio, editorial projects, performance and photography; his public framing is classical Japanese kinbaku / semenawa shaped by Sugiura Norio's photography and Naka Akira's bondage, with Kinbaku LuXuria presented as an earlier certification / training period rather than a present affiliation. Recent Yugen sources document collaboration with Sugiura Norio on workshops, online / print editorial projects and a 2025 Kinbaku Sajiki invitation. EURIX XII 2018 presenter with Tenshiko.

Influences (mutual or directional): Naka Akira, Riccardo Wildties, Martín Kinbaku, NegraNoche, Cordafortis, sweet_shiver, Stuart, Mie Neko.

Influenced by: Neko-Do Shibari School.

Collaborators: Nawa Aush, Norio Sugiura, Saara Rei, Miroslava Fernández / Lala, Marta Tenshiko, Akane.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Yugen Studio, EURIX 2010s, Rope Spirit, Les Cordes Roses, Corneum, Shibari Uruguay, WolfRope Juku, BOUND London, Temple New York, Anatomie Studio, Daruma Berlin, Cats Downstairs Rope Salon, That Rope Place, Rope Dojo Melbourne, Yugen Studio Magazine.