As an artist , Ito was very interested in kabuki and other ways of the Edo period and his book was published after the Kanto earthquake . His technique for depiction of Edo period tortures was to bind his model in various ways , have the photographs taken , and use them as inspiration for his paintings . A notorious exploit of such kind was binding his pregnant wife Kise and have her suspended upside down for a drawing imitating the ukiyo-e '' The Lonely House on Adachi Moor in Michinoku Province '' by Yoshitoshi
Kanto earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
Seiu Ito