Munich-based professional kinbakushi, writer and performer associated with Kannōnawa, a sensual / carnal rope approach. Nawapedia identifies him as a Munich-based professional kinbakushi and Kinbaku Today contributor born in 1962, and frames his Japanese-scene return through Nagare Aotsuki, Ero Ouji, Shigonawa Bingo and Haruki Yukimura after an earlier BDSM / rope period. Kinbaku Today's Onawa Asobi 2018 listing names Sin among the performers and describes him as resident in Germany, author of Year of The Bakushi and The Psychology of BDSM & Rope Bondage, and CEO of KOUMANAWA. A 2025 Kinbaku Today interview expands the source trail: first rope-bondage experience in 1984, regular underground performances since 2011, Japanese-scene friendships / lessons including Bingo and Yukimura contexts, Amatsunawa history, and later KOUMANAWA rope-development work.
Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Onawa Asobi.
縛Bakushi MapBETA
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
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269
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1546
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