Ushirote 後ろ手
Japanese for hands behind the back; ushirote, also written 後手 and read gote, is a building block of many tie names and, as ushirote shibari, one of the names of the box tie.
Ushirote (後ろ手) describes the hands placed at one’s back (Jisho, which gives the reading うしろで). SMpedia, citing a Shogakukan dictionary, treats 後手, read ushirote, ushirode or gote, as a building block of tie names that places the hands at the back, as in gote takatekote or ushirote gasshō, with maete as its opposite. As a tie, ushirote shibari (後ろ手縛り) is one of many names for the box tie (Nawapedia). Arm height is disputed: Shibari Study’s entry for ushirote shibari speaks of arms bound high behind the back, while SMpedia and Nawapedia note that gote or ushirote shibari often means the lower version, kept apart from a high takate kote. SMpedia also uses the word for a simple binding of the wrists behind the back.