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Water

A woman is never far from jealousy. Punishment for beautiful women who are favored by married men includes various kinds of water torture. Sometimes, they are dunked mercilessly underwater after being whipped and beaten. Sometimes, they are drenched in water on cold nights or locked inside water-filled chambers. The most appalling of it all is to be bound to rotating waterwheels. This is torture of hell.

水 (mizu)

女に嫉妬は附物なれば、殿の寵を専にしたる美女が鞭苔に次で水資の惨刑を説せられて水底に葬られ、或いは寒夜水に浸さるるもの、水牢の刑を受くるもの、その最も酸鼻なるは水車に縛して回轉するもの等々にしてこれ亦地獄の責苦なり。