Monko (縄師モンコ)

Monko (縄師モンコ) is a Japanese nawashi.

Era: 2000s

NAWASHI · PHOTOGRAPHER · TEACHER

Japanese nawashi, teacher and rope photographer publicly active through the Monko / Nawashi Monko identity. His official Shibari & Lens blog describes the archive as Monko's world of rope and photography, with later public activity centered on Kamata Shibari Kobo / a Tokyo Kamata photo base, while a 2018 self-retrospective identifies Kinbaku no Yakata as his first official website and Kinbaku Gakuen as the second. SMpedia's Nawa-dokoro chronology places Monko no Mise in 2003 and says later regular activity continued as Zoku Monko no Mise / Kinbaku Gakuen. Nawapedia records the Monko website opening in 2004, and Osada Steve's official chronology records a March 2004 joint performance with Nawashi Monko at Loft Plus One. Barcelona sources document Monko's 2013 / 2015 La Orbita de IO workshop visits and frame him as a highly technical Japanese nawashi whose practice centers on precise rope and photography rather than stage-show style; the organizer account describes him as primarily self-taught through observation and reinterpretation.

Influences (mutual or directional): Nuit de Tokyo.

Collaborators: Osada Steve.