1651: Marubashi Chuya, Keian Uprising conspirator

ExecutedToday.com ^ | September 24th, 2014 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1651, the ronin Marubashi Chuya was crucified for a failed attempt to topple the Tokugawa shogunate.

Allegedly disaffected of the national unification dynasty by having lost his father to battle against it, Marubashi orchestrated, along with a fellow martial arts adept named Yui Shosetsu, a daring plot betrayed only by illness. When shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu died in 1651, leaving power to a 10-year-old heir, the conspirators meant to set fire to Edo (Tokyo) and seize Edo Castle as well as other cities.

But Marubashi came down with a very ill-timed fever and in delirium raved treasonable plot details that got passed along to Tokugawa authorities. The so-called Keian Uprising never made it into execution.......

[Ciaphas Cain]

Is it only me, or were the Japanese of old REALLY especially cruel with how they executed people?

[Fiji Hill]

Is it only me, or were the Japanese of old REALLY especially cruel with how they executed people?

Crucifixion arrived in Japan around the time of the Middle Ages and was still used up to around the nineteenth century. It was somewhat different from that practiced in the ancient Middle East and Roman Empire, in that the victim was usually stabbed to death with spears and sharpened bamboo stakes after being fixed to the cross. Even in the last century, Korean rebels were tied to crosses and then shot by firing squads.

[AZJeep]

There were also burning alive at stake by slow fire.
Unlike in Europe, where they put huge stakes and people died almost instantly. the Japanese kept the fire very small and slow, actually putting it down, if it started to burn too much, so the victims may take a day or so to die.