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Mie Neko

Mie Neko is a German switch.

Era: 2020s

SWITCH · TEACHER

Ruhrgebiet-based rope switch, teacher, performer and organizer. Her own site says she began tying in 2017 and has been present as a teacher and performer at national and international events since 2020, while organizing her own events and workshops. Her teaching emphasizes smaller-rigger experience, rope-model education, safety in rope, body manipulation, power dynamics, semenawa and emotional connection through rope, with workshops in Essen, NRW, and private tuition in Dortmund. Her rigger profile frames her style as independent and shaped by many inspirations rather than one single school, with model experience as a major source for her rope practice. EURIX 2021 beginner-course teacher, 2022 / 2024 presenter and 2026 presenter with SickDucks.

School: Independent

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: EURIX 2020s.

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