Daruma 達磨
Japanese name of the round Bodhidharma doll; in rope, daruma shibari folds and binds the arms and legs close to the body so that the person looks limbless, like the doll.
A daruma (達磨) is a round, red good-luck doll modeled on Bodhidharma, the Buddhist monk (Jisho); Andrea Ropes adds that it stands for perseverance. Daruma shibari (達磨縛り) borrows the doll’s compact shape. SMpedia describes it as a tie that folds both arms and both legs so the person resembles a daruma. Shibari Study gives a more specific form, with the legs tied to the sides and the arms passed through the legs and fixed at the hips. RebornRopes describes a tight binding of arms and legs, notes that the name can also cover a suspended pose with the legs raised and the arms secured beneath them, and connects the doll to the legend that Bodhidharma meditated until he lost the use of his limbs. SMpedia marks its entry as unfinished, and the sources do not settle on one fixed form.