Torinawa 捕縄
The capture rope that Japanese law enforcement used to seize, bind and lead suspects and prisoners, and an alternative reading of the word hojō.
Torinawa is one reading of 捕縄; the same characters are also read hojō. Japanese dictionaries define it as the rope used to arrest offenders and to escort prisoners, defendants and suspects. Heibonsha’s Mypedia notes that the Edo period wrote it 取縄. The discipline built around it, hojōjutsu, is also known as torinawajutsu.
According to Wikipedia’s account, constables kept the cord in a small bundle that fed out as they wrapped it around a resisting person. People who had not yet been convicted were tied without knots to spare them public shame. Heibonsha’s encyclopedia names two Edo-period kinds of police rope: hayanawa for the arrest and honnawa once the charge was settled.