female bedmate (archaic, humorous)
Archaic and humorous term for a female bed partner, likening her body to a fleshy cushion. Not used in modern Japanese outside of historical or literary contexts.
The word 肉蒲団 appears in humorous books of the Edo period.
蒲団 (or 布団) means a futon or cushion. 肉蒲団 is a metaphorical compound using 肉 (flesh) to describe a person as a 'flesh futon'.
Standard kanji spelling; 蒲団 is an older variant of 布団.
Alternate spelling using the modern 布団 character.
A Sino-Japanese reading of Chinese 肉蒲團, literally “flesh cushion” or “flesh futon,” also the title of a seventeenth-century Chinese erotic novel.