Aibunawa 愛撫繩
"Caressing rope": the sensual style of kinbaku associated with Yukimura Haruki, centered on pleasure and give-and-take, usually contrasted with semenawa.
Aibu means caress (Jisho), and aibunawa is the “caressing rope” associated with Yukimura Haruki. Zetsu Nawa, who trained in Yukimura’s school, wrote in Kinbaku Today that its essence is pleasure and a give-and-take between top and bottom in which the tied person feels she could almost protect herself. Shibari Study adds that the ties are looser, leaving a sense of some freedom. Zetsu Nawa also notes that Yukimura’s earlier work was much harder and closer to seme, and that one small adjustment can turn the same single-rope gote into semenawa. Kinbakuwiki points out that seme still has a place within Yukimura-ryū.