Rope Tales

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

Articles by Kirigami

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Photography Workshop – Tetsuo

Tetsuo is a photographer from Rome who took part in one of our photography workshops dedicated to kinbaku. The participants worked in a highly…

M-shape

This series was created at home during the COVID lockdown, as one of Kirigami and Marta Tenshiko’s first shared photographic experiments. With no outside…

Marta in a harsh waist rope

This studio session with Marta Tenshiko explores the chest piece and a third rope with hishi. The construction begins with a rigorous, clearly readable…

d.i.f.y.s. as a Schoolgirl

Kirigami and d.i.f.y.s. created this session alone in the studio. We chose to experiment with the aesthetics of the Japanese schoolgirl, reinterpreting them through…

Tenshiko in a white dress

This studio session with Marta Tenshiko explores the internal rotation of the hips and the line it creates through the lower legs. As the…

Camelia

This was our first shoot with Camelia and one of her earliest experiences of semenawa. The visual study grows from the contrast between white…

Agura on a Hashira

This session with Marta Tenshiko is built around a formal contrast: the body’s full, sinuous volumes meet the straight, rigid and angular lines of…

Floorwork with Tenshiko

This floorwork session was created in the studio by Federico Kirigami and Marta Tenshiko alone, as a study of transitions on the ground. The…

White shirt session

One of Kirigami’s earliest photographic studies, created alone in the studio with Kitsune. In this session the visual research moves away from hard chiaroscuro…

Marta’s Elbows

This session grew from a shared moment of research in an empty studio, with Marta Tenshiko tied and photographed by Federico Kirigami. The starting…

d.i.f.y.s.

This was the first shoot with d.i.f.y.s., created alone together in the studio. Strongly contrasting light builds a clear, theatrical space in which the…

Interview @ shibari.ru

This post is to thank Ishemia for the beautiful interview she published on the new Russian site dedicated to shibari: shibari.ru. Following the request…