French rigger, teacher, performer and author behind Ecole des Cordes. His official Ecole bio places his rope start in the early 2010s, says he trained with Akira Naka between 2013 and 2016, and credits later exchanges with Riccardo Wildties, Georg Barkas and Tesshin Doyama as shaping his semenawa / Naka Ryu-rooted practice. He took over Ecole des Cordes in 2016 and developed it as a French kinbaku teaching space focused on intention, listening, precision, safety and emotional connection. Co-author with Stephanie Doe of French rope manuals including L'art du shibari Tome 1 and L'Art du Bondage. Performer at RopeFest and Onawa Asobi Europe 2025 with partner Lola Bunny 666.
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.