Shibari and kinbaku in Japan
Japan hosts 161 documented bakushi / kinbaku entries: studios, events, communities and practitioners with city-level locations or public country context.
Cities 13
Approximate anchors 16
Entries with public country context but no source-backed city. The map keeps them visible with deterministic approximate coordinates.
- Akechi Kagura Japanese Kanna-ryu / Akechi Kanna performance, salon and workshop context.
- Hayashizaki Yoshinobu Public Instagram profile uses Japan tags and Ichinawakai instructor wording; Facebook profile for the same public name gives Tokyo-facing biographical context.
- Yahyoguma Public X profile locates Yahyoguma in Gunma / Takasaki and Pink Bear pages place the rope / kinbaku context at the Takasaki Pink Bear venue.
- Aimi Japanese public profile and Kyoto / Osaka rope-photo and performance traces; sources do not expose one stable rope-scene city base.
- Masato Marai Japanese SM magazine / Nureki-Sugiura assistant context.
- Harutokyou Kyonan / Chiba studio-house project described in the Haru-to-Kyou interview.
- Nagaike Takeshi SM Circle AMS / Japanese bakushi community context.
- Akane Japan-based professional kinbaku model / ukete context.
- Osada Kazumi Japanese Osada lineage / memorial context; limited public bio.
- Kazami Ranki Kansai-based Circle M / Kazami-ryu context.
- Raymond Kanna-ryu first official instructor; limited public bio.
- Yagami Ren Japanese sekibaku / Yagami-ryu founder context.
- Flame Hel Dungeon of HEL's official team profile says Flame now lives most of the year at his personal dungeon in Japan and returns to Europe during the summer.
- Milla Reika Australian-born, Japan-based kinbaku artist.
- Baku Yu Kai Japanese dojo; city not fixed in public sources.
- Kannawa-kai / Phantom-no-kai Japanese Akechi Kanna organization; city not fixed in public sources.