Kagerō 蜻蛉

Japanese for mayfly or dragonfly; kagerō shibari is an arm tie that joins the arms behind the back with a hishi diamond pattern between them, a form some glossaries count as a strappado.

Shibari Study writes kagerō shibari as 蜻蛉縛り and renders the name in English as a tie of the dragonfly or mayfly: the arms are behind the back and joined by a hishi, or diamond, pattern. Andrea Ropes describes the arms as tied straight together and classes the tie as a strappado, and RebornRopes also treats it as a strappado, with the diamond pattern placed between the arms. The kanji differ between sources. Jisho lists かげろう for 蜻蛉 as a variant spelling of 蜉蝣, the mayfly, while RebornRopes writes 陽炎, a word Jisho glosses as heat haze; RebornRopes says that in poetry it stands for the mayfly.

Sources

  1. Glossary — Shibari Study
  2. Glossary — Andrea Ropes
  3. Ka is for — RebornRopes
  4. 蜻蛉 — Jisho.org
  5. 陽炎 — Jisho.org