Japanese scroll illustrating the dissection of an executed criminal

Anatomy
Capital punishment
Human dissection
Medicine--Edo period, 1600-1868

This 1900 cm long hand drawn scroll from the Edo Period is an important record of the most famous of all early human dissections to take place in Japan. These dissections materially changed the Japanese knowledge of human anatomy. It is one of several scrolls that were prepared following the dissection of Heijiro, a convicted criminal, at age 40. The dissection occurred in 1783 at Fushimi, south of Kyoto.

Yoshimura, Ranshu, 1739-1816

Digitized by the rights holder

circa 1783

Koishi, Genshun,‏ ‎1743-1808‏
Tachibana, Nankei, 1754-1806

Japanese

Handscrolls

japanese_scroll

1 scroll

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc., New York, NY

Edo period, Japan, 1600-1868

Fushimi-ku (Kyoto, Japan)

Anonymous. Name available upon request.