Bondage master Arisue not yet at the end of his rope
What, wonders Jitsuwa Knuckles’ (May) reporter Hiroki Ishihara, are the “true aesthetics” of ‘kinbaku’ (rope bondage).
“Stated simply, to get the job done effectively, and beautifully, with a small amount of rope,” he muses. “This is the ideal. Even if you want to repeat the same technique, the better you get at it, the less rope you need.
“When everything’s going right, the feeling is so good, you get the sensation like God has descended from heaven — it’s like the rope is running on legs of its own. You feel like you’ve become one with your surroundings.”
So says Go Arisue, at age 51 one of Japan’s top “nawa-shi” (bondage artists), who claims to have tied up at least 3,500 women during his 30-year career. Arisue, who orders ropes in quantities of from 700 to 2,800 meters at a time, was brought in to do the rope work during the shooting of SM guru Oniroku Dan’s controversial SM blockbuster film “Hana to Hebi” (Flowers and Snakes), starring bombshell actress Aya Sugimoto.
One of between only 20 to 30 individuals in Japan who qualify for the title of “nawa-shi,” Go Arisue made his debut as a rope bondage master at age 20.
“There wasn’t that much SM around when I was a kid,” he recalls. “But there were period dramas on TV with scenes showing women tied up, and I would watch them.”
Arisue practiced with knotting ropes for a long, long time, he says, before putting his skills to work on a live female when he was 20.
“I worked hard at developing my own techniques, and through a friend’s introduction, my work got featured in an SM magazine,” he relates. “In those days there were only about seven or eight such mags on the market. But VCRs began appearing from around that time, and I got called in to work on the productions, and was gradually able to command better guarantees.”
But Arisue’s road to success was not without potholes; he experienced at least two discouraging interludes.
“The first time, when I was 27, I felt I’d reached my limits at this work,” he recalls. “It got so bad, physically, that I’d be in the process of interviewing a potential subject and then all of a sudden felt so nauseated that I had to run to the toilet to throw up.
“I moved to Kamakura and spent a year undergoing rehabilitation. Then six years ago, when I was around 45, my mind began emitting an ‘I give up’ signal and I wasn’t able to do it any more. So I took a job doing heavy manual labor at a factory for two years, until I began to emerge from my funk. The first job I accept upon my return to the trade was ‘Hana to Hebi.’”
So then, the interviewer asks Arisue, do you think then that basically anyone who masters the fundamentals can go on to become a bondage artist?
“Well, the fundamentals are certainly important, but kinbaku is a free-style art,” he replies. “It’s the kind of work where you have to be able to deliver the ’service’ that your subject desires, and create the ultimate space in which she (or he) gets the full impact.”
But at least there’s always the satisfaction of a job well done.
“Y’know, there are women who can achieve orgasm just from a bondage experience,” he chuckles.
Still, being at the peak of one’s powers isn’t necessarily all fun and games; sometimes painful pitfalls occur as well. Last September, Arisue experienced the scare of his life when his female subject, 34-year-old manga artist and ex-mental hospital patient Taeko Uzuki, slit her own throat on stage during a live SM performance. An ambulance was summoned and the medics saved her life, but she required 13 stitches in her neck. Uzuki’s motive for the suicide attempt, in her own words, was that she “. . .wanted to get back at him (Arisue), for reneging on his promise to keep tying me up.”
Presently Arisue gives live performances each Friday evening at a “happening bar” in Shinjuku. He also conducts a bondage “night school,” from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. each Saturday night, in Tokyo’s Roppongi district. Charges for participation are as follows: Men who want to tie someone up, 10,000 yen; men who want to be tied up themselves, 20,000 yen; couples, 10,000 yen; women who want to tie up someone; 5,000 yen. And if you’re a woman who desires to be stripped, tied up, whipped and otherwise humiliated before an audience, Arisue is delighted to oblige you absolutely free of charge.
In mid-April, he’ll be visiting Camp Foster in Okinawa, where he plans to hold a “friendship night,” entertaining American servicemen.
By Masuo Kamiyama.
Arisue’s home page
http://uzukino.at.infoseek.co.jp/index-11.html
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