Rope Tales

Kinbaku: a challenge for the body, a shiver for the mind

Articles by Kirigami

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Semenawa with Emily

A semenawa session with Emily, evolving from soft, sinuous shapes into increasingly intense rope torture.

Shibari Session in White Lingerie

An intense and refined shibari session, featuring rope, light, and vintage lingerie. Grace and Aesthetics There is a kind of grace that cannot be…

Performance shibari

Shibari performances are a great way to approach this discipline for the first time, observing a couple who have been practicing kinbaku for some…

Online Live Streaming with Lala

Wednesday, February 28 – h 21.30 CET Other timezones: Our Kinbaku Live Sessions experienced an uninterrupted sequence of successes during the past years. This…

Hashira inversion

Model: Cath AfterdarkRope and photo: Kirigami This was our first shibari photoshoot with Cath Afterdark. The hashira, a vertical wooden post, became the focal…

Shibari and water

In this shibari shooting Dana is subjected to a practice known as mizuseme (水責め see Wikipedia), or water torture. Dana came to Milan during…

Kinbaku Video

This kinbaku session happened in 2020, during one of our first live streams.During the pandemic, we chose to share our passion with other people…

Tenshiko in a reverse prayer

This was one of my first photographic shoots working alone in the studio. Marta Tenshiko remained in a demanding reverse prayer for over an…

Leya in a pink dress

This was my first session with Leya. She chose the elegant pink dress herself, a delicate element that runs through the series and contrasts…

Marta suffers ishidaki

This series with Marta Tenshiko began as a photographic study of light and shadow. Body, rope and weights gradually emerge from the darkness as…

Camelia intimate session

This shoot with Camelia began as an intimate encounter, created by the two of us while searching for a visual language that would suit…