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IKSK Berlin

IKSK Berlin, 2020–, is a German studio in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.

2020–

Era: 2020s

Institut für Körperforschung und sexuelle Kultur — Felix Ruckert's new venue at Holzmarkt 25, Berlin, opened October 2020. Successor to schwelle7 (2007–2016) as Berlin's flagship shibari and sex-positive practice space. IKSK's own community page frames it as a project of Compagnie Felix Ruckert / Berlin e.V. and explicitly compares its accessibility model to schwelle7; Felix's 2020 IKSK text says EURIX continues twice yearly at Holzmarkt as a rope-bondage exchange / research festival.

People associated with IKSK Berlin: Felix Ruckert, Anna Lysee, Kristina Marlen, Roxu.

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