A dated log of dataset and interface work on Shibari Atlas: what was added, corrected or fixed. A new entry is published every Monday morning for the preceding Monday–Sunday week.
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Format
This is a project changelog, not a news feed — it covers changes to this dataset and this interface, not the wider shibari/kinbaku scene. Each entry groups a period of work into three kinds of change: Dataset (people, entities and connections added or corrected), Research (naming, lineage or classification calls revised), and Interface (features and fixes to the site itself).
Each entry groups completed changes by outcome and reflects the public atlas at the end of the week, omitting temporary work that did not remain part of the release. For the editorial rules behind the dataset, see methodology; for the public references behind it, see sources.
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Log
Aug 3 – Aug 9, 2026
New Lineage directories and clearer inclusion boundaries
Made every Lineage category easier to browse, improved Map and mobile Lineage discovery, expanded source-backed practitioner and learning coverage, and clarified which relationships support public inclusion.
InterfaceAdded crawlable A–Z Lineage directories for people, studios, communities, events, dojos, platforms and other record types, with collection-level counts, distributions, local filters and direct profile links.
InterfaceImproved Map and mobile Lineage navigation so searches can reveal filtered places, profiles preserve their graph context, overview controls move out of the way, and selected profiles emphasize direct relationships with an optional full-lineage view.
DatasetAdded source-backed profiles for Madison Young-Mogul, James Mogul, Fivestar, Danarama, Cléo Dubois, Himboy and Feuertänzer, and strengthened contact and relationship evidence for Anna Lysee and HenRigger.
DatasetAdded ESINEM Shibari Classes, Bound Academy, Learn Shibari, In.Di.Go and Academy of SM Arts to the platform directory, alongside Rebstudiet, RopeSpace Denmark, MadridRopes and Klub Nawa.
DatasetUpdated 2026 workshop and event coverage with Aijō Dojo, Kinbaku Lounge, Kinbaku Studio Vienna, Subspace and Espacio Nos schedule changes, the current Onawa Asobi Europe lineup, and a new TREX — Tension Rope EXchange series record.
ResearchReviewed Western bondage and adult-media crossover profiles against the inclusion standard, keeping public profiles only where stable rope practice is paired with a specific, source-backed relationship.
New regional communities and a deeper workshop calendar
Expanded the workshop calendar and made it easier to reach from profiles, broadened people and community coverage across several regions, and deepened recent event archives with stricter evidence and privacy safeguards.
InterfaceLinked studio profiles directly to their current workshop schedules, and made yearly workshop filtering lighter by loading its full listing data separately with a safe default view.
DatasetExpanded source-checked 2026–2027 programmes for Mie Neko, Lexienawa and NekoNeko, Soptík and Sansei, Ren Yagami, Yūgen, Ena and Roxu, Kinbaku Nexus, Box Tie Studio, Kinbaku Lounge and other hosts across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
DatasetAdded ten public practitioner profiles and ten studios, communities and learning platforms, including Mbói Hũ, Roqueved Zagal, Tamashi Nawa, Kati Bird, Aether Olivier, Ka.sure, Sacred Tie Shibari, Rope Radar, Zhu Studio and new rope communities in Newcastle, Melbourne, Christchurch and Appalachia.
DatasetDeepened the recent event archive with Virtual Queerope editions from 2020–2025, Queerope Berlin 2023–2024, EURIX XX, Danish Shibari Festival 2023, SwissBound Spring, RopeLinked Rotterdam and BoundCon XX.
ResearchExpanded exact biography, teaching, collaboration and appearance evidence for Mie Neko, Lexienawa, Charles Ilcoatl and La Habitación Azul, Goldie Sunshine, Renée de Sans, Ryuan, Escuela de Shibari and TOHJIRO.
ResearchTightened public provenance so visible claims remain backed by stable public sources while private editorial material stays outside the published dataset.
Launched a source-checked workshop schedule, expanded event and retreat coverage, and added or enriched public profiles, studios and sources across several regional scenes.
InterfaceAdded a dedicated Workshops & classes schedule with year pages, date, country, studio, instructor, programme and availability filters, shareable queries, mobile-friendly rows and structured data.
DatasetPublished source-checked workshop listings across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, including current programmes, archived 2026 listings and instructor links back to Atlas profiles.
DatasetExpanded event and retreat coverage with Shibari Retreat Poland 2027 editions, Fem Rope Getaway, Hyaku-do Fest, ROPECRAFT and Onawa Asobi backfills, and additional Shibari Valencia Fest 2027 lineup detail.
DatasetAdded or enriched public profiles, studios and communities including Rachel Ki, Alex Nagor, Vsevolod Moreuton, Shibari Panamá, Slutty Events Madrid, Tether Salon, Estudio Nudo, Hyaku-do, Tying With Friends Studio and Mukade Kinbaku Dojo.
ResearchReviewed public profiles, studio sites, event pages and archive collections, tightening official links, contact surfaces, relationship evidence and classification calls.
InterfaceImproved event and workshop navigation, profile official-link sections, Lineage entry links, Map popup focus behavior and mobile workshop filtering so public discovery is clearer across the atlas.
Tightened the public person-inclusion standard, added and enriched visible regional profiles and communities, and improved how search, profile, place and event surfaces describe the atlas.
ResearchClarified the public methodology for visible person entries: each person now needs a reviewed identity, role and qualifying-relationship package, while weak or unsupported leads stay out of public profiles.
DatasetAdded or enriched visible coverage for Martina Crepaz and Shibari Málaga, the Buenos Aires Soguita / Club Soguita / Fauna Grotesca cluster, Festival Internacional de Artes Eróticas, Lab Uncle Shu and selected Shibari Study studio profiles.
DatasetExpanded Saara Rei and Carnivore with clearer public roles, project context, programme appearances and bounded collaboration evidence, and refined Akechi succession and several European profile relationships.
InterfaceImproved discovery metadata across profiles, places, events, the Map, Sources and LLM guide pages with more precise descriptions, canonical links and structured data.
Evidence-aware profiles and the 0.2 release checkpoint
Closed the 0.2 release checkpoint around exact evidence, resilient delivery and mobile Lineage behavior, while extending the historical event archive and regional atlas coverage.
ResearchExpanded exact claim-level provenance for selected life dates, active periods, institutional histories and formal lineage fields, with structured source limitations and regression checks guarding citation metadata.
InterfaceConnected reviewed citations to selected profile facts and relationship evidence, added readable static Lineage and profile fallbacks for missing JavaScript or bundles, and simplified profile, citation and correction controls.
InterfaceShipped a mobile-first Lineage directory that opens profiles in Hyper Focus, then tightened camera fitting, touch behavior, edge routing, deep-link centering and cross-surface links between Lineage, Map and Events.
InterfaceAdded production-preview smoke checks, a Node compatibility lane, retained browser failure artifacts, bounded Lineage and Map delivery to 128 shards, reduced Sources page size and introduced release-blocking capacity budgets.
DatasetExtended the event archive across 2004–2023 and added or enriched people, studios and communities including Kokoro Kinbaku, Fittglitter, Turo Shibari and Shibariland, Kanso, Van Darkholme, Lochai, Rope Jam Studio, Shibari Muses, Shibari Study Valencia and Entwine NV.
Expanded the historical events ledger and archive-roster links while hardening Hyper Focus for iPhone memory limits, touch navigation and dense relationship views.
DatasetBackfilled occurrences across BoundCon, EURIX, RopeFest, LFRA, Onawa and Omuchi Asobi, Rope Spirit, Helsinki Shibari, Bondage Expo Dallas, Shi Fest Ukraine, Rome Bondage Week, La Nuit des Cordes, BOUND London, Bound In Boston, ROPECRAFT, Prague Shibari Festival, MoscowKnot and RopeDay.
ResearchConnected verified archive participants to existing profiles across ROPECRAFT, Helsinki, Shi Fest, Rope Spirit, BOUND London, EURIX, Onawa and Omuchi, Prague and Rome, without turning simple co-presence into lineage claims.
InterfaceReplaced oversized Lineage canvas layers with viewport-sized iPhone overlays, released hidden-tab canvas memory, improved dense note-label routing and edge highlighting, and tightened mobile Hyper Focus selection and side-panel behavior.
DatasetApplied the Kinbaku Today article-family audit and broadened source-backed coverage through additions such as the Rope Podcast hosts, Knots N’Roots Costa Rica, Triangle Shibari, Tüdeltreff Kiel and Dov / Washi Nawashi.
Introduced a shareable one-hop Lineage view, reorganized recent-era and regional context layers, and expanded connected profiles and public contact coverage through focused source audits.
InterfaceAdded Hyper Focus as a shareable one-hop Lineage view with category lanes, era rows, always-visible connection notes, mobile access, touch-friendly controls and curated first-visit framing.
DatasetSplit recent historical context into clearer 2010s and 2020s layers, added explicit regional scene sublayers and era spans, and surfaced those spans on selected context profiles.
DatasetExpanded connected coverage across Japanese studios and practitioners, festival performers and regional communities, including Maitake, Toronawa / MilkyWay, Enbushinbakukai, Hanikamu Nawakai, Enchou Studio, Why Knot Lille and Thailand BDSM Community.
ResearchCompleted broad public-contact and source-family passes across Bluesky, Instagram, Shibarimap, books and Kinbaku Today, while leaving weak or unstable leads out until stronger evidence appears.
Faster Lineage delivery and a global infrastructure pass
Made the Lineage and Map lighter, faster and more accessible, expanded local-scene and event coverage worldwide, and completed a systematic reconciliation of relationships, entity types and source links.
InterfaceMoved the Lineage graph into a cached static payload and made biographies load only when opened, dramatically shrinking profile-page HTML; also sped up zooming and path highlighting, reduced mobile edge rendering and fixed narrow-screen edge clipping and bottom-sheet gestures.
InterfaceReduced repeated work across the Map, minimap and home search, added keyboard and screen-reader access with visible focus treatment, improved event-page readability and corrected Event and Lineage structured-data warnings.
DatasetAdded people, studios, communities and venues across Perth, Singapore, Montenegro, Latin America, Cape Town, continental Europe and North America, alongside new occurrences for Alive Kinbaku Festival, Men Roping Men, BoFeWo and Kinbaku Dreams.
ResearchReviewed sparse relationship records, major event and studio hubs, era placement and entity classification; synchronized verified event appearances with the Lineage and introduced clearer venue and event subtypes.
ResearchReconciled duplicate studios, shared URLs and project-versus-person link scope across a broad source pass, correcting many ambiguous profile, team, event and institutional references without inflating the graph.
Rebuilt the geographic atlas and its public reference pages as clearer, searchable surfaces, while expanding global profiles, event coverage and historical source context.
InterfaceRedesigned the Map around a dark labelled basemap, category-coloured pins and clusters, a collapsible country-grouped index and a draggable mobile bottom sheet; it now defaults to living, currently active people and places and groups country-level records under shared pins.
InterfaceRebuilt About, Methodology and Sources as a connected reference set with live dataset counts, evidence-level explainers, an anchored FAQ and a searchable, filterable source index that exposes previously hidden catalog and database records.
InterfaceAdded dedicated pages for individual event occurrences with structured event data, introduced a distinct visual treatment for certification relationships, and fixed antimeridian centering, popup auto-pan and untimed programme-row layout.
DatasetExpanded people, studios, communities and event links across Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, including new programme and roster context for Shibari Camp Poland, Prague Autumn, QuIRKS, Kinky Breizh Ropecamp and Querverbindungen.
ResearchDeepened historical provenance through focused Nawa-art, Kinbakunomicon, Kitan Club and related media-source audits, and separated instructor certification from broader teaching and influence relationships.
Rebuilt annual event browsing into a clearer Timeline Ledger, expanded profiles and rosters across Japan, Europe and the wider global scene, and strengthened the atlas's public status and evidence workflow.
InterfaceRedesigned yearly Events as a month-by-month Timeline Ledger with a current-date divider, status badges, compact rosters, linked profile names and clear event-site and Lineage actions.
InterfaceAdded a site-wide Beta Status badge, contact blocks for studios and events, bestowed-name profile metadata and structured-data fixes for About, Methodology and Sources.
DatasetExpanded coverage across Latin America, South Africa, the Baltics, Belfast, Hong Kong, New Zealand, India and Japan, including an extensive Ichinawakai instructor pass and new studio and community clusters.
ResearchFilled 2026 schedule and roster gaps for Bogotá, EURIX, Prague, Pinse, BoundCon, Shibari Camp Poland, Danish Shibari Festival, Queerope and Onawa Asobi Europe, and added Kinbaku Yuga, RopeFest and International Shibari Film Festival coverage.
ResearchSimplified relationship types while separating appearances and editorial context, then added a generated source ledger and event-lineage cross-check to keep evidence and event-derived links auditable.
Expanded documented people, places and events across several regions, completed a major relationship-provenance pass, and made atlas navigation and Lineage reading more precise after launch.
DatasetExpanded the atlas with new clusters across Japan, China, Korea, the Balkans, Central Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America, alongside selected studios, dojos, festivals and documentary-film entries.
ResearchCompleted a source pass across performance, collaboration, dojo, operator and study or influence relationships, adding role and evidence metadata, source references, chronology checks and explicit influence kinds.
ResearchAudited Nawapedia's kinbakushi and model categories, a Japanese historical chronology and several podcast and source families, promoting well-supported profiles while keeping weak leads out of the atlas.
InterfaceAdded a Places catalogue and direct city or country map focus, event-occurrence deep links, accent-insensitive search and explicit profile contact links.
InterfaceImproved mobile selection framing and zoom text sharpness, marked recently added profiles, and clarified parallel relationship paths, labels and endpoints.
After a week of launch preparation, the project — until then called Bakushi Map — relaunched publicly as Shibari Atlas for the first time: a live site on its own domain with search-engine visibility, mobile support, and a published data methodology behind it.
InterfaceRenamed the project from Bakushi Map to Shibari Atlas, a broader public umbrella covering the map and events alongside the lineage, and opened it to the public at bakushimap.org, with per-entity profile pages, a sitemap, a custom 404 page, and social-preview images generated from the live map; added an About overlay that opens automatically on first visit alongside dedicated Methodology and Sources pages explaining the project's inclusion criteria and sourcing standards; and built out mobile support with pinch-zoom, touch panning, and a collapsible filter bar with a bottom-sheet detail panel.
DatasetSubstantially expanded regional coverage — Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish and other national scenes, including diaspora connections following the war in Ukraine — and added many new festival and event nodes worldwide, plus new studios, podcasts and community platforms as tracked sources, alongside a new authored-works category linking writers to their published books.
ResearchPublished a public data methodology covering inclusion criteria, source standards, and a narrow policy for adult-media sources tied to a specific rope-related professional role; reclassified roughly 40 entries from a generic "venue" type into distinct event and studio categories and gave adult-media production companies their own category separate from teaching studios; and established a policy for handling self-reported corrections from people who appear in the dataset.