Citations:dakimakura

Noun: "a type of long body-length pillow originating in Japan, which can be embraced or wrapped around one's body while sleeping"

 * 2004, Chris Kohler, "Getting in Bed With the Customer", Wired, 6 February 2004:
 * These character-print dakimakura came into existence in the late '90s as a way for animé fans to get up close and personal with their cartoon sweethearts.
 * 2010, Gerald Figal, "Monstrous Media and Delusional Consumption in Kon Satoshi's Paranoia Agent", in Fanthropologies, Volume 5 (ed. Frenchy Lunning), University of Minnesota Press (2010), ISBN 9780816673872, page 146:
 * After the fourth iteration the camera zooms out as in the opening sequence, but this time to reveal the scene running on a laptop next to a Maromi dakimakura in a darkened workroom without workers—two desks have vases with a cut flower, apparently commemorating the deaths of their previous occupants.
 * 2010, "Man Weds Cushion", Daily Star (UK), 12 March 2010:
 * Jin has fallen head over heels for a Japanese 'dakimakura' - or hugging pillow - showing a life sized cartoon of his favourite sexy anime cartoon character Fate Testarossa.
 * 2004, Chris Kohler, "Getting in Bed With the Customer", Wired, 6 February 2004:
 * These character-print dakimakura came into existence in the late '90s as a way for animé fans to get up close and personal with their cartoon sweethearts.
 * 2010, Gerald Figal, "Monstrous Media and Delusional Consumption in Kon Satoshi's Paranoia Agent", in Fanthropologies, Volume 5 (ed. Frenchy Lunning), University of Minnesota Press (2010), ISBN 9780816673872, page 146:
 * After the fourth iteration the camera zooms out as in the opening sequence, but this time to reveal the scene running on a laptop next to a Maromi dakimakura in a darkened workroom without workers—two desks have vases with a cut flower, apparently commemorating the deaths of their previous occupants.
 * 2010, "Man Weds Cushion", Daily Star (UK), 12 March 2010:
 * Jin has fallen head over heels for a Japanese 'dakimakura' - or hugging pillow - showing a life sized cartoon of his favourite sexy anime cartoon character Fate Testarossa.
 * 2010, "Man Weds Cushion", Daily Star (UK), 12 March 2010:
 * Jin has fallen head over heels for a Japanese 'dakimakura' - or hugging pillow - showing a life sized cartoon of his favourite sexy anime cartoon character Fate Testarossa.