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== Shibari in contemporary art == {{more citations needed section|date=December 2014}} [[File:Blacklight Shibari.jpg|thumb|right|Blacklight Shibari with fluorescent ropes]] Shibari has a strong presence in the works of some renowned contemporary artists, mainly photographers, like [[Nobuyoshi Araki]] in Japan, [[Jim Duvall]] in the United States and [[Hikari Kesho]] in Europe. In 2014, Romanian singer-songwriter NAVI released a Shibari-themed music video, "Picture Perfect".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQCHxlm-WpA |title=NAVI - Picture Perfect (Short Film) |website=[[YouTube]] |date=8 October 2014 |access-date=18 November 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/WQCHxlm-WpA |archive-date=17 November 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The video, directed by Marian Nica, was controversial and banned by Romanian television for its explicit erotic content.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cancan.ro/actualitate/toate-televiziunile-au-ramas-socate-imagini-incredibile-din-videoclipul-care-era-prea-hot-pentru-tv.html|title=Toate televiziunile din Romania au ramas socate! Imagini incredibile din videoclipul care era prea HOT pentru TV!|date=21 October 2014|language=ro|website=Cancan.ro}}</ref>{{Full citation needed|date=November 2021}} Shibari has also featured in Western [[Popular culture|pop culture]]. For example, in the [[music video]] for [[Jonas Brothers|The Jonas Brothers]] song "[[Sucker (song)|Sucker]]", [[Joe Jonas]] and [[Sophie Turner]] briefly appear to be engaging in a form of Japanese-inspired bondage.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnAmeh0-E-U |title=Jonas Brothers - Sucker (Official Video) |website=YouTube |date=28 February 2019 |publisher=JonasBrothersVEVO |access-date=29 July 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/CnAmeh0-E-U |archive-date=17 November 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> More to the point, shibari is explicitly referenced in "Tying the Knot", the nineteenth episode of ''[[The Good Wife]]''{{'}}s fifth season, as the practice of shibari is integral to the episode's plot;<ref name="ew.com">{{Cite web|url=https://ew.com/recap/the-good-wife-season-5-episode-19/|title=The Good Wife recap: Killer Instinct|website=EW |first1=Breia |last1=Brissey |date=March 2, 2015 |access-date=2019-07-29}}</ref> in this episode, fictional characters [[List of The Good Wife and The Good Fight characters|Colin Sweeney]] and [[List of The Good Wife and The Good Fight characters|Renata Ellard Sweeney]] (portrayed by actors [[Dylan Baker]] and [[Laura Benanti]] respectively) are revealed to engage in the art of shibari,<ref name="ew.com"/> and shibari is also used as a means by which Renata's friend, Morgan Donnelly (portrayed by actress [[Jennifer Gambatese|Jenn Gambatese]]<ref>{{Citation|title="The Good Wife" Tying the Knot (TV Episode 2014) |work=IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3663642/fullcredits|access-date=2019-07-29}}</ref>), is [[Homicide|murdered]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://relativelyentertaining.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/the-good-wife-tying-the-knot/|title=The Good Wife: Tying the Knot|last=E|date=2014-05-02|website=Relatively Entertaining|access-date=2019-07-29}}</ref> One modern distinction that has gained popularity among westerners wanting to distinguish the terms is that ''shibari'' refers to purely artistic, aesthetic rope, while ''kinbaku'' refers to the artistic, connective, sensual, sexual practice as a whole. While multiple books and articles have been written in Japanese about shibari, no one has found evidence{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} of there being any thought given to the distinction between these words among Japanese practitioners of the art. A traditional view is that the term {{lang|ja|shibari}} is a Western misuse of Japanese vocabulary. The word denotes tying in Japanese, but in a generic way, and traditionally not in the context of bondage. The names for many particular ties include {{lang|ja|shibari}}, but it was not traditional to name the entire activity in that way. Instead, {{lang|ja|Kinbaku}} is the term for artistic or erotic tying within traditional Japanese rope bondage circles.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} An even more traditional view is that ''shibari'' is a term used for erotic bondage in Japan that is practically interchangeable with the term ''kinbaku''. [[Seiu Ito|Itoh Seiu]] (generally considered one of the fathers of contemporary Japanese rope bondage) used the term in the 1950s,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nawa-art.com/etc/fs/FS195309/023.html|title=風俗草紙 昭和28年9月号|language=ja}}</ref> with no sign of it being a "western Japonism" as did many other well-known Japanese {{lang|ja|bakushi}}.<!--, from the 1950s until present day, including Nureki Chimuo, Yukimura Haruki, Akechi Denki, Ryuuji Takeda, Tsujimura Takeshi, Arisue Go, Randa Mai, Osada Steve, Miura Takumi, Nagaike Takeshi, and Minomura Kou (among countless others).--> One of [[Nureki Chimuo]]'s how-to video series from the 1980s, is titled Introduction to Shibari.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://smpedia.com/index.php?title=%E7%B7%8A%E7%B8%9B%E6%95%99%E6%9D%90|title=緊縛教材 — SMpedia|language=ja}}</ref> While some claim this is a somewhat hidebound definition and the word ''shibari'' is now increasingly being re-imported from the West to Japan, as the tying communities are very close-knit, there is no evidence to support such a conclusion as most practicing {{lang|ja| bakushi}} in Japan have very limited contact with the west and almost no interest in debating the meaning of words. Most Japanese {{lang|ja|kinbakushi}} do not object to the term {{lang|ja|shibari}}, as it is common vernacular in the global community.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} The actual term ''Kinbaku'' was first developed and used in the May–June 1952 issue of Kitan Club by author and Bakushi Minomura Kou and Bakushi Tsujimura Takashi. Until that issue, most magazines only had nude photographs of women but few in bondage. In order to specify the act of erotic bondage as opposed to the act of just tying Kinbaku was then created by the aforementioned Bakushi.<ref>{{cite book |last1=K |first1=Master |title=The Beauty of Kinbaku |date=2008 |publisher=King Cat Ink |isbn=978-0692344651 |pages=70 |edition=Second |url=http://www.thebeautyofkinbaku.com/buytestB.html}}</ref>
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