ID: 33
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Head: exposition
DocumentNature: Book illustration
Repository: Hôgaku bu
Color: Black and white
Topic: Heads exposed 梟示
Description: The severed head of a executed man is hanging on a spot in front of an uran landscape on the right.

Bibliography
  1:Name: GRAY, John Henry, GREGOR William Gow (eds) China: A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People

Related Textual (1)

1  Title: An account of the atrocities of the Mandarins
    Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
    Internal_Type: OCR

Related Replication (1)

1  Ressource_Provider: Miss Turandot
    Title: Heads in cages
    Information: Two kinds of pictures representing Exposure of the head, 梟示, which was an irregular punishment (runxing 閏刑), as it was not listed among the Five regular penalties (wuxing 五刑). A Criminal's head was left for up to two weeks in a wooden cage on a public place; the family was often allowed to redeem the to be buried with the corpse.

Related VisualSet (1)

1  Title: Gray
    DocumentNature: Book illustration

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