Kazami Ranki (風見蘭喜)

Kazami Ranki (風見蘭喜), born 1962, is a Japanese nawashi in the Kazami-ryū.

Era: 1990s

NAWASHI · TEACHER

Kinbakushi based in Kansai. Founded Circle M's SM group in 1996. From 2000 serialized "M's Monthly Report" and began bondage training sessions; expanded teaching to Nawa-ya workshops from 2001. From 2011 gave workshops internationally in the UK, Australia, Canada, France, and the USA. In a Shibari Study podcast interview, Kazami describes learning by trial and error in an era without formal teaching, then teaching students to understand why a tie works rather than only memorizing order; the same interview describes an apprentice structure with two Toronto apprentices and one Brisbane apprentice. Evil Girls HQ public sources identify Miss Gen as his qualified Kazami-Ryu instructor / deshi from late 2015 and Shihan / Head of School for Oceania from 2018.

School: Kazami-ryū

Students / direct apprentices: Miss Gen, Osaka Dan, JD-66, NightwolfAJ.

Certified / licensed instructors: Kiko Rope.

Influences (mutual or directional): Shigonawa Bingo, Nawarei, HaruTsubaki, Esinem, Yulia Vasileva, KJ, Tifereth, Margout Darko, Zor, Ebi McKnotty, Benignus.

Influenced by: Kazami-Ryu Shibari Perth, Toronto Kinbaku Salon, Rope Art Hong Kong, Tengu Shibari Munich.

Collaborators: Nagare Aotsuki, Ozuki Tsukio.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: London Festival of Rope Art / Japanese Bondage, BoundCon SF 2014, Shibari Lounge, Bar M.A., Onawa Asobi, Toubaku, The Pleasure of Rope.