Ren Yagami (鵺神 蓮)
Yagami Ren is a kinbaku expert belonging to the young generation and at the roots of the Yagami style of torture rope and Kinbaku techniques with his own original style of hojojitsu (traditional rope techniques of the Japanese police from the 13th to mid 20th century).

Yagami Ren was born on 18 May 1984 and showed sadistic tendencies from a very young age. He had his first successful SM sexual experience while still in junior high school. When he was still 17 years old, he was deeply impressed by the rope of Nawashi Kanna and started kinbaku. After that he developed his technique as an amateur and expanded his deep interest in SM practices at a brisk pace. In 2011, he started as a formal apprentice to Nawashi Kanna (note: Nawashi Kanna retired from the rope scene from 2005 to the end of 2010) and he became professional taking part in various events. In 2012, a severe illness meant that, for a long time, he walked the thin line between life and death. After recovering by chance, he amicably parted with Nawashi Kanna and started to trace his own route.

In 2013, he started to be active in the adult video market, live shows, magazines. From that time, he started to develop the Yagami ryu (Yagami style) – (体を縛り、流れを結 – “Karada o shibari nagare o musubu) “tie the body to establish a connection/flow” – by incorporating some of the techniques leaned from his training in Aikido from a very young age into his style of Kinbaku and creating as well a Yagami style of Hojojutsu.One of his favorite mottoes is (淫縄美縛 – in jou bi baku) “sensual rope beautiful tie” tying a girl in an obscene way to show her seduction power and force out her hidden internal Eros.

As described above, Yagami Ryuu is not so much shibari (art of tying) as an pure aesthetic art form but as a practice deeply grounded in Eros and sex. In that sense, the Yagami Ryuu also teaches that “even without rope one can tie and enjoy SM”.

In 2014 , Yagami Ren established the Yagami Juku as the place ( dojo ) to learn the Yagami Ryu kinbaku and helps its dissemination. The transmitted elements of Yagami Ryu include Kinbaku techniques, hojojutsu techniques, body techniques and are possibly hard to remember but it often reaches its goal of inducing a trance in the person being tied.

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