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Japanese: 石抱 / 算盤責 "Ishidaki" (lit. "stone hugging") is a form of torture where one places weight on a persons legs while kneeling on a "soroban" ((shin) torture board). The punished [...]

A tie where the models genitals are exposed by spreading the legs wide with ropes around the ankles and/or thighs. The source for this name is found in the Japanese [...]

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Love yourself; Love onself; self love. A hugging position     The supplied sample on the right is a jiai shibari with contemporary shibari overlay. See also: Zenpou takate [...]

A spread-legged-crab-tie. In this position the models wrist and upper-arm is tied to the upper ankle and thigh of the respective spread legs. Optionally the legs can be further spread [...]

A Kakejiku is a hanging scroll painting with rods on top and bottom which allow it to be carried safely and at the same time to be hung well spread [...]

Generalized term for a hair bondage.

Kamoi (鴨居)  Shiki-i (敷居) Kamoi refers to the upper part of a wooden frame that is grooved to fit fittings such as sliding doors (fusuma) and paper windows (shoji). A [...]

Japanese: 閂 In the context of Japanese rope bondage this refers to a cinching (cinch) rope, locking wraps. Also know as the tome/tomei nawa ("stop rope") or shibori nawa ("squeesing rope").