Karada 体

Japanese for body; in Western rope circles, a common name for a diamond-pattern body harness, a usage some educators consider inaccurate.

Karada (体) simply means “body” in Japanese. Shibari Study defines it as any tie applied to the body and notes that the word is often used, incorrectly in its view, as a name for hishi shibari. Rope365 records karada as a common name for an open, diamond-pattern chest harness. English Wikipedia describes it as a Japanese word used in the West for a body harness, sometimes called a rope dress, and adds that the traditional distinction is between kikkō (hexagons) and hishi (diamonds).

Sources

  1. Glossary — Shibari Study
  2. Vocabulary — Rope365
  3. Japanese bondage — Wikipedia
  4. Bondage positions and methods — Wikipedia