The big name behind making shibari popular is the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. I don’t recall when he began to be popular in the West but it doesn’t take half a brain to see that he was probably the number one person responsible for popularizing this fetish, and then fetishists in the west picked up [...]
Well, Shibari (縛り), simply put is a Western misnomer for Kinbaku (緊縛美), or Japanese erotic rope bondage. There are a variety of differences between Western BDSM bondage and Japanese styles. Part of the Japanese shtick is to immobilize the bottom (the one tied up) in such a way that it’s (a) artistic in a weird [...]