About This Item
Title
Japanese scroll illustrating the dissection of an executed criminal
Subject
Anatomy
Capital punishment
Human dissection
Medicine--Edo period, 1600-1868
Capital punishment
Human dissection
Medicine--Edo period, 1600-1868
Description
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.
Creator
Yoshimura, Ranshu, 1739-1816
Publisher
Digitized by the rights holder
Date
circa 1783
Contributor
Koishi, Genshun, 1743-1808
Tachibana, Nankei, 1754-1806
Tachibana, Nankei, 1754-1806
Language
Japanese
Type
Handscrolls
Identifier
japanese_scroll
Extent
1 scroll
Provenance
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc., New York, NY
Temporal Coverage
Edo period, Japan, 1600-1868
Spatial Coverage
Fushimi-ku (Kyoto, Japan)
Rights Holder
Anonymous. Name available upon request.
Citation
Yoshimura, Ranshu, 1739-1816, “Japanese scroll illustrating the dissection of an executed criminal,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 22, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/8129.