Arisue Go 有末剛
Tokyo nawashi, born 1954, who has tied for SM magazines since the 1970s, did the rope work for the 2004 film Flower and Snake, and teaches, performs and writes on kinbaku.
Arisue Go is a Japanese nawashi based in Tokyo. His official website, in a profile archived around 2010, gives his birth year as 1954 and describes a career that by then already spanned four decades. According to English Wikipedia he performs, teaches and writes about kinbaku, and sometimes gives workshops outside Japan.
Beginnings and magazine work
According to his profile, his interest in rope goes back to childhood, and he taught himself the traditional techniques, inspired by the paintings of Itō Seiu and the work of Minomura Kō, editor of the SM magazine Kitan Club. He began working as a nawashi in the 1970s, which the profile calls a golden era for Japanese SM publishing, and tied extensively for the magazines SM Select and SM Fan. Nawapedia adds that his first appearance was in an SM club during his student years and dates the start of his regular “Kinbaku Life” series to 1984.
Film and video
His profile says he did the rope work for the film Akai Nawa Hateru Made, directed by Suzuki Jun’ichi, which English Wikipedia dates to 1987. When home video spread in the 1980s he worked on many productions for bondage labels and later ran his own label. He also did the rope for art photo collections of actresses. For Ishii Takashi’s 2004 Flower and Snake, a new adaptation of Dan Oniroku’s SM novel, he did the rope and also appeared on screen; his profile credits this film and its sequel, which Nawapedia dates to 2005, with making his name known outside SM circles. Metropolis, writing in 2008, noted how closely the lead actress Sugimoto Aya worked with him on the film. English Wikipedia records that he is one of the rope artists featured in Bakushi, Hiroki Ryūichi’s 2007 documentary on Japanese bondage.
Books, teaching and performance
English Wikipedia lists books from 2008 and 2009, under English titles such as Kinbakushi A’s Ecstasy and Gloom (Ohta Publishing, 2008), Arisue’s Kinbaku Theory and Practices (Sanwa Publishing, 2008) and two volumes of Kinbaku Mind and Techniques (Jugoya, 2009). Nawapedia also lists photobooks from 1996 and 2000.
Around 2010 his website advertised a weekly evening class in Roppongi, open from beginner to advanced level, in English or Japanese, and to people who came without a partner. His profile mentions regular shows in Japan and a particular interest in multimedia performances with dancers, manga artists and other performers, and states his aim as learning the traditional techniques and applying them while extending his own form of bondage. Nawapedia counts him among the first Japanese kinbakushi to travel abroad to give workshops and records a European tour in 2010.