Tawara 俵
Japanese for a straw bale or sack; tawara shibari, the straw-bag tie, wraps the torso like a bundled bale, with the hands bound low at the hips or legs.
Tawara (俵) is a straw bag or bale, and the word also counts sacks of rice, potatoes or coal (Jisho). Shibari Study defines tawara shibari (俵縛り) as a tie that wraps the torso like a bale, binds the hands at the hips and continues the rope down the legs. SHIBAKU’s glossary paints a similar picture: several turns around the torso, the hands tied separately to the legs, and horizontal and vertical lines that form the pattern. Andrea Ropes simply compares the result to bundles of rice straw tied together. The Japanese school Shibaraku lists tawara shibari in its glossary among ties not limited to one posture or body part, without a public definition.