Kotobazeme 言葉責め
"Torment with words": verbal play used to heighten the emotion of a rope scene, closely associated with Yukimura Haruki.
Kotobazeme joins kotoba, “words”, with seme, “torment”; Jisho glosses the compound as verbal abuse. In kinbaku it names the deliberate use of the voice to intensify a scene. Shibari Study links it to Yukimura Haruki and describes it as deepening emotion through embarrassment or humiliation. Kinbakuwiki gives a softer picture of practice in Yukimura-ryū, where intense whispering or breathing can provoke strong reactions without any demeaning words. Kinbakuwiki counts it as part of seme, which it describes as having physical, emotional and verbal sides.