Kinbakushi A: Kōkotsu to Yūutsu no Hibi 緊縛師A恍惚と憂鬱の日々

Kinbakushi A: Kōkotsu to Yūutsu no Hibi (“Rope Artist A: Days of Rapture and Gloom”) is a book by Arisue Gō published by Ōta Shuppan in March 2008. The National Diet Library and the publishing-industry database Books both record it as a 256-page volume, and both class it as fiction (the library under Japanese literature, Books with the Thema code for general fiction).

The library’s summary, supplied by the Sapie library service, describes a collection of stories told in a comic vein about the worldly desires that erupt behind the scenes of erotic play. Its cast includes married women, a tax official, a dominatrix and a yakuza boss drawn into forbidden pleasures, and a rope artist who starts boiling rope in a stockpot first thing in the morning; the first story in the contents list takes its title from that pot.

Arisue is one of the three rope masters, with Nureki Chimuo and Yukimura Haruki, presented in Hiroki Ryūichi’s 2007 documentary Bakushi. Under his name the library also holds three rope books he supervised for Sanwa Shuppan: Arisue Gō no Kinbaku Gorinsho (2005), Arisue Gō no Kinbaku Kiso Rijutsu (2008) and Arisue Gō no Kinbaku Kaitai Shinsho (2016).