海老えび責ぜめ

noun

shrimp torture; bondage torture resembling a shrimp

Historical term for a form of bondage torture where the victim is bound in a cross-legged position with arms tied behind, and the rope is tightened until the ankles are forced toward the neck, resembling a curled shrimp.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの拷ごう問もんには海老えび責ぜめと呼よばれるものもあった。

  Among the tortures of the Edo period was one called 'shrimp torture'.