Gote 後手
Japanese for hands behind the back; in rope, gote or gote shibari is a common name for the box tie, used side by side with takate kote.
Gote (後手) reads literally as “back hand” (Steve Osada); in rope it means the wrists are bound behind the back (Nawapedia). Gote shibari (後手縛り) is listed by Shibari Study and Rope365 as another name for the box tie, and Nawapedia treats gote takatekote as one tie with many alternative names. Steve Osada of Osada Ryu notes that Western rope circles sometimes say “ushiro gote”, which Japanese speakers do not, because ushiro (behind) repeats what go already means. Rope Bite Pgh quotes Akechi Denki: “Shibari begins with the gote and ends with the gote.”