Osada Steve (長田スティーブ)

Osada Steve (長田スティーブ), born 1952, is a German nawashi in the Osada / Western.

Era: 1990s

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German nawashi, AV director and performer based in Japan. Born 1952 in Berlin as Steve Hauser. Moved to Japan in the 1980s and worked as a fashion photographer; in the 1990s turned to fetish photography, documenting much of Tokyo's SM scene. First met his mentor Osada Eikichi in 1998 during a photo shoot, then helped during stage performances and studied his style of kinbaku until Eikichi's retirement in 2001. His official chronology also records study under Akechi Denki from 2002, Nawashi Kanna from 2005, Yukimura Haruki from 2007 and Yagami Ren from 2017. In 2000 founded Studio SIX in Tokyo; in 2007 established Osada-Ryū as his official school. Yukimura-ryu sources identify him as Haruki Yukimura's first formal student from 2006, with the Harumine bakushi name and a Yukimura-ryu teaching license in 2012. Later projects include Kinbaku Academy, a structured online Osada-ryu / Yukimura-ryu teaching platform. Active internationally for 25+ years, one of the most influential figures in modern shibari.

School: Osada / Western

Teachers / direct apprenticeship lineage: Osada Eikichi, Yukimura Haruki.

Students / direct apprentices: HaruTsubaki, Yukinaga Max, Michael RopeKnight, Steve Freeman.

Certified / licensed instructors: Boris Mosafir, Harukumo, Barkas, Vinciens, Andree, Ibinuphis, Jack the Rigger.

Influences (mutual or directional): Akechi Denki, Akechi Kanna, Yagami Ren, Ash Snare, Haruteru, Nawarei, Mark De Viate, Avalon, Hebari, Esinem, Felix Ruckert, Kenyade, Hagen, RopuNawa, Zetsu, Soptik, Pedro Cordas, RopEmotion, Ryuan, Nuit de Tokyo, Pilar LaOtra, WykD Dave, Clover Brook, Zor, Sergey A., Nawa Kenshin, Benignus, Alfil Barcelona, WolfRope, Roy Burn.

Influenced by: Global Workshop Circuit, Pandemic / Hybrid Learning Shift, Osada Kinbaku Dojo Berlin, Tengu Shibari Munich.

Collaborators: Norio Sugiura, Monko, Amrita, Ageha Asagi.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Studio SIX, Kinbaku Academy, Secret56, Shibari Bremen Dojo, Toubaku, Shibari Dojo Vienna, The Pleasure of Rope.