CoCo Katsura was born in Tokyo, Japan. She is a choreographer, installation artist, shibari workshop master, rope bondage, and fire performance and body suspension performer. Initially, Katsura started to work as a body modification performer in the underground scene in Tokyo back in the year 2000. CoCo Katsura After the 2000s Afterwards, CoCo Katsura moved…
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BoundCon Munich 2021 will be back on 2021 from May 21st to May 23rd. If you do not know about this, but are a bondage enthusiast, keep on reading. This is exciting news, so join in the fun! BoundCon BoundCon is an international bondage, fetish, and BDSM convention. It has taken place since 2004 every…
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David Lawrence is a master of expressive portrait. He has been photographing people for more than 32 years! This artist became interested in shibari in 2003 when he recognized the beauty of ropes on the skin. After this revelation, shibari became his passion. Lawrence started to practice shibari, when he discovered his genuine talent and…
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ROPECRAFT is a bondage-focused hotel convention that occurs several times a year all around the United States. Austin, New Orleans, and Chicago have been hosts of this now very famous convention. It was born out of the simple ideas of making a multicultural rope environment where everyone would like to go. ROPECRAFT includes shibari, Western…
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Bondage Expo Dallas is a bondage-focused hotel convention held once a year. In it, you can find self bondage-classes and classes for couples. In addition, you can talk directly with speakers, practitioners, and vendors. Moreover, you will have the opportunity to attend hands-on workshops for those who want to learn the basics. And not only…
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The rope end issue is, unfortunately, very common in this material. However, there is an equally common way to solve it. We all know that people have used rope around the world for numerous applications. People have used rope for as long as history can remember. Since the beginning of times, humans had the need…
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Hajime Kinoko had his solo exhibition, Perfect Red, at the Gallery Le Deco in Shibuya from December 17th to 23rd, 2018. In it, he showed dozens of past masterpieces as well as his new un realeased work. Currently, Kinoko is Japan’s foremost contemporary practitioner of shibari. He is famous for his interpretation of shibari in…
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Hajime Kinoko is a contemporary artist, shibari master, rope artist, and photographer who was born in the Aichi Prefecture, in Japan, in 1977. People know him worldwide for his different shibari expressions. In them, he uses various types of rope, such as the traditional piece-dye in the Japanese Style Kinbaku, red rope in Art Rope,…
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The art in Japanese rope bondage has developed over the centuries. We refer to it as shibari, which means “decoratively tie,” or kinbaku, which translates to “tight binding.” Experts, on several occasions, have described shibari as a shared meditative practice whose main focus is to achieve a deep and profound relaxation of body and mind.…
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Black Heart’s Kinkabu workshop is a two level course for learning the discipline of shibari. If you have an interest in this practice, you should definitely have knowledge beforahand. Previous to delving into a description of the courses, let us make a review of what shibari or kinbaku does and its cultural significance in its…
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