Kinbaku-bi 緊縛美
Japanese compound glossed as "the beauty of tight binding", used as an aesthetic name for kinbaku and for the beauty of a person in rope.
Kinbaku-bi adds bi, “beauty”, to kinbaku, “tight binding”. Wikipedia lists it as an alternative name for kinbaku with the gloss “the beauty of tight binding”. Practitioner glossaries shift the emphasis slightly. Shibari Study reads the compound as implying the beauty of being bound, while the rigger Andrea Ropes glosses it as “the beauty of traditional shibari art”, which the glossary explains as traditional-style shibari pursued for aesthetic or erotic ends.