Tsuri 吊り

Japanese for hanging or suspending; in rope, the general word for suspension, written -zuri when it follows another word.

Tsuri (吊り) is an ordinary Japanese noun: Jisho.org glosses it as hanging or suspending, and also as a sling. In rope bondage it names suspension in general, meaning a tie in which an overhead structure is used to lift the person who is tied. Shibari Study notes that when tsuri is attached as a suffix after another word it is written zuri, and its glossary uses that form in entries such as yokozuri (side suspension) and sakasa zuri (upside-down suspension). Rope365 and Shibari Study both use tsuri as the Japanese equivalent of the English word suspension.

Sources

  1. Glossary — Shibari Study
  2. Vocabulary — Rope365
  3. 吊り — Jisho.org