The Internet is overflown with zentai, hentai, manga and other adult oriented stuff. But what about the motherland of these well-known terms? Time to search in Japanese!
| zentai |
ゼンタイ
全身タイツ |
full-body tights |
| hentai |
変態
or
へんたい |
abnormal, strange, weird, queer, pervert, kinky, almost a cursing word in Japanese. Incorrectly used in the rest of the world for adult manga |
| kigurumi |
着ぐるみ |
costumed animal characters |
| |
成年 |
adult |
| manga |
漫画 |
cartoon, comics |
| adult manga |
成人漫画 |
erotic cartoons |
| 18+ |
18禁 |
prohibited to those not yet 18 years old |
| ecchi or ethci |
エッチ
えっち |
(1st letter of Hentai) soft erotica, naughty |
| shibari |
縛り
しばり |
tying, binding with rope |
| shibaru |
縛る
しばる |
to tie, to bind with rope |
| hojojutsu |
捕縄術 |
is the traditional Japanese martial art of restraining a person using cord or rope. |
| nawajutsu |
縄術 |
same as above |
| houhou |
方法
ほうほう |
a method, a way, a system |
kata |
方
かた |
a method |
| shibari-kata |
縛り方
しばりかた |
methods of tying, binding with rope |
| ushiro-te-shibari |
後ろ手縛り |
tying hands behind the back |
| nawa |
縄
なわ |
a rope |
| nawa-shi |
縄師 |
a rope master |
| nawa shibari |
縄縛り |
“rope-tying with rope”
incorrect term invented by non-japanese |
| kinbaku |
緊縛 |
bondage |
| jibaku |
自縛 |
self-bondage |
| Serufu-bondeji |
セルフボンデージ |
Japanese transliteration of “self-bondage” |
| |
簡易自縛 |
simple self-bondage |
| jibaku-houhou |
自縛方法 |
self-bondage methods |
| kikkou |
亀甲 |
turtle shell |
| kikkou-shibari |
亀甲縛り |
the binding in a form of a turtle shell |
| karada |
体
からだ |
The body. The term is incorrectly used instead of kikkou-shibari |
| kanchou |
浣腸
かんちょう |
rinsing of colons or enema |
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