ID: 177
Ressource_Provider: Enrico Sturani
Title: Investigation
DocumentNature: Book illustration
Repository: Sturani
Page_number: 37
Color: Color
Caption: Investigation by torture to extort a confession.
This was called shrimp's or box' torture from forcing the bodies of suspects by binding them. Sometimes the suspects were beaten if they refused to confess.
Topic: Judicial Torture 拷問
Description: Two men tied to a big stick with legs and neck bound together are beaten with a stick.
Keyword: Investigation; rope; stick; confession; executioner
Related VisualSet (1)
1 Title: Tokugawa Bakufu keiji zufu 徳川幕府刑事圖譜 (Commented plates on penal practices under the Tokugawa) DocumentNature: Watercolor
Derniére modification le : 2005-11-08 |