Seme-e 責め絵
A Japanese genre of pictures showing scenes of torment, closely tied to the painter Itō Seiu, who is also known for pictures of bound women.
Seme-e joins seme, which the Daijisen dictionary defines as punishing someone by causing mental or physical suffering, with e, “picture”. Nippon.com describes seme-e as paintings of torture scenes and pairs it with shibari-e, paintings of bound women, as two sub-genres of traditional sadomasochistic art.
Both sources name Itō Seiu (1882–1961) as the central figure. Nippon.com calls him the undisputed master of the two genres, and Japanese Wikipedia says he specialized in seme-e and bound-figure pictures while also working as a researcher of historical customs, and was equally known for ghost paintings. It records that he painted seme-e with Sasaki Kaneyo as his model, and that a book of photographs connected with him carries the word seme-e in its title.