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Ash Snare

Ash Snare is a Australian nawashi in the Yagami-ryū.

Era: 2010s

NAWASHI · TEACHER

Australian nawashi based in Melbourne. Began formal shibari training in Tokyo in 2015 under Osada Steve, and later studied with Hajime Kinoko, Akechi Kanna, S. Haruteru and, briefly, Federico Kirigami. Founder of Rope Dojo Melbourne. In 2023 became the only Australian accredited Yagami-ryu instructor after hosting Ren Yagami for a Melbourne performance; his formal current school context is Yagami-ryu.

School: Yagami-ryū

Teachers / direct apprenticeship lineage: Ren Yagami.

Influences (mutual or directional): Osada Steve, Haruteru, Hajime Kinoko, Akechi Kanna.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Rope Dojo Melbourne.

Bakushi Map BETA

An interactive genealogy of bakushi and kinbaku — the Japanese rope traditions that grew from Edo-period hojōjutsu through twentieth-century SM magazines into today's global shibari scene.

People: 343
Entities: 269
Connections: 1546
Eras: 9

Each record is sourced from public material — Nawapedia, ShibariStudy, festival rosters, interviews, archived studio pages — and curated by a single researcher.

Beta — structure and interface are public; data is still being expanded and corrected.

How to read it

Vertical position is time: the 1800s at the top, the 2020s at the bottom. Cards are coloured by school or lineage; lines between them carry the relationship type:

deshi — direct apprenticeship
influence — peer study, mentorship
thinner colours — venue, magazine, production
card colour = school / lineage

Click a card to open its bio, antecedents and descendants. Filters in the top bar narrow by era, entity type, or relationship.

Caveats

Inclusion is selective: a person or studio appears only when there's enough public evidence to anchor them meaningfully. Missing birth years are deliberate — many practitioners don't publicise them. Errors and gaps will exist; corrections welcome at pussynawa@proton.me.

Methodology Sources

Thanks to RopeMarks, Asiana, RomKnots, Nick Freerider, Aleksei Kalatsky, Federico Kirigami, bluefeathers

Bakushi Map by Vsevolod Moreuton · · facts CC0 · text CC BY-SA · pussynawa@proton.me