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| Keywords: Japanese Crucifixion.jpg Meiji era 19th century by Felice A Beato 1833 ~1907 磔にされているのは壮吉という25歳の奉公人で 盗賊団を店に手引きして主人 家を殺させたという The convict was Sokichi 壮吉 a 25-year-old shop employee He brought a band of robbers into the shop and they killed the shop owner and owner's family 盗賊団は斬首の上で獄 に処せられたが 壮吉は主人殺しの重罪であったため 1人だけ磔にされたものである While other robbers were simply beheaded Sokichi was sentenced crucifixion because murdering his master was considered as a specially serious crime that deserves the extreme penalty 撮影場 は横 の闇 （くらやみざか～ 鞍止 と書くこともある） 刑場と えられている The location is reported as Kurayamizaka 闇 or 鞍止 in another way of writing Yokohama なお 人工的に 色されて絵葉書にして販売されていたものであるが 元の写 は当然モノクロであるため カラー情報を削除した The color information has been discarded though the original picture was artificially colored Japanese Wikipedia http //ja wikipedia org/wiki/ E3 83 95 E3 82 A1 E3 82 A4 E3 83 AB E7 A3 94 E3 81 AB E3 81 AA E3 81 A3 E3 81 A6 E3 81 84 E3 82 8B E5 A3 AE E5 90 89 jpg Creator Felice Beato is from Japanese Wikipedia PD-old-70-1923 Author of this photograph is Felice Beato who was a British subject and who died in 1907 Crucifixes in Asia Crucifixion Photographs of Japan by Felice Beato | ||||
