KJ
Toronto rigger who taught Kazami-style classes at the Toronto Kinbaku Salon from 2018 to 2025, teaches at Birdhaus and co-founded the Suspended Harmony performance series.
KJ is a rigger and teacher in Toronto. The Toronto Kinbaku Salon says KJ began tying more than twenty years ago and tied infrequently before joining its community. KJ was inspired to learn after watching shibari at the Morpheus Bondage Extravaganza.
Teaching and lineage
The Salon records that KJ accepted the title Shihan-Dai and became a deshi of JD and AJ in November 2018; its instructor page says Kazami Ranki recognised KJ as an instructor in 2018. The Prague Shibari Festival says KJ taught weekly at the Salon for seven years. The Salon lists KJ as a former instructor for 2018–2025. The festival says KJ teaches monthly at Birdhaus and co-founded the live-music performance series Suspended Harmony.
Style
The Salon describes KJ’s approach in terms of kinbaku, aesthetics and predicaments.
Festival appearances
KJ and Lily were listed as presenters for the Prague Shibari Festival in September 2026. The festival says they have tied together since 2019 and lists their workshops: single and double ankle suspension, dynamic transitions, rope shame and the scorpion pose. Lily co-organizes a rope-bottoming education group in Toronto.