Go Arisue (有末 剛, Arisue Gō), born in 1954, is a Japanese kinbakushi whose name comes up often among people who study rope. He works as a rigger, performer, teacher, and author. He lives in Tokyo and sometimes teaches workshops abroad. He treats kinbaku and shibari as a craft, not as Western rope fashion. He got obsessed with rope early, from the paintings of Seiu Ito and from the work of Akira Minomura.
His paid work started in SM magazines in the 1970s, including SM Select and SM Fan. He also tied for film. In 1987 his rope is in the erotic romance Angel Guts: “Akai Nawa Hateru Made” (Until the Red Rope Runs Out), directed by Suzuki Junichi. In 2004 he did the rope and appeared in Flower and Snake, directed by Takashi Ishii and starring Aya Sugimoto. That film is a remake of the 1974 soft-core picture, based on an SM novel by Oniroku Dan. In 2007 Ryūichi Hiroki’s documentary Bakushi, about Japanese bondage art, includes him.
His books include Kinbakushi A’s Ecstasy And Gloom (Ohta Publishing, 2008) and Arisue’s Kinbaku Theory and Practices (Sanwa Publishing, 2008). In 2009 Jugoya published Kinbaku Mind and Techniques 1 and Kinbaku Mind and Techniques 2 (Floor Works 1). People who study rope look at him because the magazine work, the film rope, and the later international workshops sit in one career.
For readers tracking kinbaku, shibari, and bondage riggers, his name sits with Seiu Ito and with film adaptations of Oniroku Dan in the line of rope teaching that still runs through Tokyo. The people in this work are consenting adults.
