Imomushi 芋虫
Japanese for caterpillar; imomushi shibari binds the arms behind the back and the legs crossed, a shape SMpedia traces to an early Kitan Club rope series.
Imomushi (芋虫) is a caterpillar, and Shibari Study renders imomushi shibari as the caterpillar tie: a takate kote on the arms combined with crossed legs. SMpedia says the tie appeared under the name imomushi in the first part of Kitan Club’s series Utsukushiki imashime, probably the work of Suma Toshiyuki, and describes it as a gote with the legs crossed and bound, named for its caterpillar-like shape. It adds that John Willie left a very similar tie late in his career, and that Master K, in The Beauty of Kinbaku, suggests Japanese kinbaku material may already have been reaching the United States. SHIBAKU describes an asymmetric version with the legs interlocked.