Otonawa (音縄) is a Japanese kinbakushi in the Kinoko line.
Era: 2010s
KINBAKUSHI · TEACHER
Tokyo-based kinbakushi, teacher and performer in Hajime Kinoko's Ichinawakai / ROPES orbit. Kinoko's ROPES page says Otonawa debuted in January 2009 through a collaborative kinbaku show with Hajime Kinoko, studied under Kinoko for many years, teaches at Ichinawakai, and has toured shows and workshops with his wife Tsubasa across 14 countries / 25 cities. RopeMarks additionally frames his practice as having Kitagawa-ryu roots and describes him as a long-time member of Kinoko's Ichinawa-kai group. Nawapedia and the official Titty Twister site place him at Titty Twister, the Kabukicho / Shinjuku SM & fetish bar that opened in the mid-2010s, and list early international teaching / performance traces including Peer Rope Copenhagen, Australia, Canada and Los Angeles.
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:
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influence — peer study, mentorship
thinner colours — venue, magazine, production
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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
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