Shibari, increasingly popular in photography. MONOMAD

Shibari is the art of tying with ropes, of communicating sensations and emotions with its forms. Its history dates back to the end of the Edo era in Japan. At first it was used as a method of imprisonment, torture and transfer of prisoners of war following certain technical and aesthetic principles, and using ropes usually made of natural fibers such as jute or hemp.

"In short, it is the technique of secure, sensual, dramatic and erotic binding that is being elevated to an art form in Japan". Master K, The beauty of kinbaku, 2008

Today Japanese Shibari can easily be confused with the Western submission styles known as Bondage. The art of shibari does not necessarily involve immobilization and also has other aspects, such as the aesthetic quality of the rope-binding-submissive set, the triangular plane formed by the master, the bound person and the spectator (very important in the Japanese tradition) and also takes into account the energetic effect - negative or positive - on certain points of the body of the person delivered to the master, related to the energy meridians of the human body according to traditional oriental medicine.

And it is because of the powerful visual and aesthetic charge of this style that many photographers and models make incredible artistic works with the Japanese technique of Shibari. Currently there are hundreds of tutorials on the Internet that teach how to perform this type of bondage, most of them can be done by anyone to tie and untie themselves.

In this opportunity I present some pictures in which my friend Anny poses wearing one of these aesthetic ties.