Yagami Ren (鵺神蓮)

Yagami Ren (鵺神蓮), born 1984, is a Japanese nawashi in the Yagami-ryū.

Era: 2010s

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Japanese nawashi born in Nagoya in 1984, creator of Yagami Style / sekibaku and founder of Yagami Juku. His official bio says he began self-tying at age 17, explored BDSM and SM clubs, then encountered Succubus in Tokyo, managed by Mistress Nawashi Kanna. Public Yagami chronology sources place that first Kanna-linked Succubus period around 2002-2003: he worked there as a staff member, became fascinated by Kanna's rope work, and then left the venue before his later formal apprenticeship. In 2011 he asked Kanna to take him as an apprentice and learned the basics of Akechi-style rope; from 2014 he worked independently on his own style and founded Yagami Juku the same year. The official Yagami Style page frames sekibaku as a rope approach shaped by jujutsu, anatomy, psychology and everyday practice, focused on reducing body load for both model and rigger. The current curriculum is described through Shoden, Chuden, Joden and Kaiden levels, with Semenawa treated separately.

School: Yagami-ryū

Teachers / direct apprenticeship lineage: Akechi Kanna.

Certified / licensed instructors: Etheros, RopEmotion, Ludvig Rigger, Ash Snare, Chris Be, Ryuan, Steve Freeman.

Influences (mutual or directional): Akechi Denki, Usagi Shibari, Osada Steve, Felix Ruckert, RopuNawa, Enot, Alex Bombarda, Dmitriy Arachnid, Norton Ognev, FranckStunn, Marie Sauvage, Tati Limati, isith, Margout Darko, Zor, UnkownRigger, Andrea Ropes, Benignus, Charles Ilcoatl, Kappashibari, Natsumi Scarlett, Tenga Jin, Kati Bird, Ichi Taikan.

Influenced by: Tengu Shibari Munich, Sakura Rope.

Collaborators: Gorgone, Docvale.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Yagami Juku, Place des Cordes, RopeFest 2010s, Moscow Knot / MoscowKnot International, Shibari Lounge, Onawa Asobi, Kinbaku Camp Denmark, obscene Fair / Messe, Yugen Studio.