Kabuki 歌舞伎
Japanese popular theater of music, dance and drama that grew up in the Edo period; its torment scenes are often named among the sources of kinbaku imagery.
Kabuki is a Japanese stage form that joins song, dance and drama. English Wikipedia notes that its three characters (song, dance, skill) are ateji that do not reflect the etymology; both it and Kotobank derive the word from the verb kabuku, to lean or to act and dress outlandishly. The form is traced to Izumo no Okuni, who staged new dances in Kyoto around 1603. After the shogunate barred women from the stage in 1629, boys took their place; by the mid-1600s adult men (yarō-kabuki) had taken over, with onnagata playing female roles. UNESCO inscribed kabuki as intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
In rope writing kabuki matters as a visual source. English Wikipedia says Itō Seiu drew on kabuki and ukiyo-e prints, and Japanese Wikipedia records that by the age of nine he was already captivated by a stage scene of punishment. See seme-ba for the torment scenes themselves.