Kurogami
Italian rigger who began studying Japanese bondage at the end of 2016 with Riccardo Wildties and Red Sabbath, has been a recognized Kinbaku LuXuria educator since February 2018 and teaches with Shiawase at Peony Studio in Turin.
Kurogami, also billed as Andrea Kurogami, is an Italian rigger and teacher who works in the Kinbaku LuXuria system of Riccardo Wildties. He often teaches and performs together with Shiawase. Most published information comes from the biography printed with their performances and from the pages of Peony Studio in Turin, where they teach.
Training and Kinbaku LuXuria
The biography used by Knot Here Amsterdam for a 2025 performance says that Kurogami and Shiawase began studying Japanese bondage at the end of 2016 with Riccardo Wildties and Red Sabbath, and that the experience changed how they practiced rope. In February 2018, according to the same text, Kurogami became a Kinbaku LuXuria educator, and Wildties still counts him among the few people he recognizes as educators in his style. In that text Kinbaku LuXuria is presented as a traditional style with a direct line to Naka-ryu, which Wildties adapted for Western bodies without, it says, losing its core character, and whose characteristic mood is semenawa, rope used to torment. Its account of Wildties as Naka’s chosen successor is the hosts’ and the style’s own claim.
In 2017 the pair started Kinkyphilia, a project for sharing how they live kinbaku and alternative sexuality. In December 2019, the biography says, they performed at the 25th Nawa Naka Kai in Tokyo, alongside Wildties and Naka Akira.
Teaching
Peony Studio describes itself as a kinbaku venue in Turin that teaches Japanese bondage in the Kinbaku LuXuria style. Its structured program runs from two foundation courses on technique, lines and stability to a class on gote and first kata and a follow-on class on kata, aesthetics and personal expression, with assisted practice nights and themed classes alongside. Kurogami and Shiawase are named as teachers of the studio’s intensive workshop on the three dimensions of kinbaku, a couples-only course for students who have completed the first class, which deals with the spatial, aesthetic and relational sides of tying.
They also teach and perform abroad. Knot Here Amsterdam hosted them for a performance and rope jam in June 2025, announced as a return visit, and the Lyon teacher Eric Shore lists Kurogami among the guest teachers he invites for intermediate and advanced workshops.