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Ishikozume (Japanese: 石子詰め) was a ritual method of execution performed in ancient Japan. The ritual is characterized by waist high burial in earth followed by lapidation (death by stoning). [1]
Execution by hanging [citation needed] Sawing [3] Waist-cutting (cutting the person in half). [citation needed] The Kanazawa han coupled this with decapitation [citation needed]. The death penalty often carried collateral punishments. [citation needed] One was parading the criminal around town prior to execution(市中引き回し).
In the early Edo period (1603–1867), there was no new code on capital punishment, and some of the methods of execution used in the Sengoku period, such as execution by oxen, were continued, but, in 1742, during the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, a new law was enacted that changed the method of capital punishment and lessened its severity. Under ...
An illustration of ikido. Ikido (生き胴) is a Japanese execution method.. Ikido translates to "living torso". [1] Ikido was invented during the Edo period and was used as a form of tameshigiri (test cutting) on living people and dead people.
An 1893 illustration showing an execution at Suzugamori. The Suzugamori execution grounds (鈴ヶ森刑場, Suzugamori keijō) were one of many sites in the vicinity of Edo (the forerunner of present-day Tokyo, Japan) where the Tokugawa shogunate executed criminals, anti-government conspirators and Christians in the Edo period.
Illustration of ana-tsurushi. Martyrdom of Paul Miki and Companions in Nagasaki with hole hanging. Ana-tsurushi (穴吊るし, lit. "hole hanging"), also known simply as tsurushi (吊るし, lit. "hanging"), was a Japanese torture technique used in the 17th century to coerce Christians ("Kirishitan") to recant their faith. [1]
Bamboo sprout. Some species can grow as fast as 4 cm per hour. Bamboo torture is a form of torture and execution where a bamboo shoot grows through the body of a victim. It was reportedly used in East and South Asian countries such as China, India, and especially Japan, but claims of its usage lack reliable evidence.
Gao Yang killed only six people by this method, [35] and An Lushan killed only one man. [36] [37] Lingchi was known in the Five Dynasties period (907–960 CE); but, in one of the earliest such acts, Shi Jingtang abolished it. [38] Other rulers continued to use it. The method was prescribed in the Liao dynasty law codes, [39] and was sometimes ...