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title: "Baku-do (縛道)"
date: 2026-10-22
author: "Sr. Interior (流庵殿)"
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  - name: "Glossary"
    url: "https://shibari-dojo.online/gls-en.md"
tags:
  - name: "Ryuha (流派)"
    url: "https://shibari-dojo.online/tags/ryuha-en.md"
---

# Baku-do (縛道)

Literally, it can be translated as “the way of shibari”.

 The final *do* refers to the path each person follows in a discipline.

 We find something similar in martial arts, calligraphy or the Japanese tea ceremony.

 It is the way a person lives and progresses in the practice of an “artistic craft” or discipline.

 Within the Yagami Ryu, this term has its own application: *bakudo mumon* (縛道無門), which can be translated as “When philosophy comes in, a door opens to a new path”.

 As with other artistic crafts, when shibari takes on a philosophical background and goes beyond itself, it becomes *bakudo* (the way of tying).

 A path with no doors: anyone can start walking it at any time, and anyone can also leave it whenever they want.

 There is no superior or inferior, and no discrimination of any kind; the possibilities are endless.

 One of the principles of *sekibaku* is that “there are no doors”: both participants are on the same level, we are all on the same level, there are no privileges and no hierarchy.

 Everyone is welcome to walk the path of learning this style, and everyone is free to leave it whenever they feel the time has come.


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