Keibatsu

Video: https://www.laquartacorda.it/en/portfolio/keibatsu/

Keibatsu is the system of traditional Japanese torture that can be seen in Edo period printings, hojojutsu scriptures or in Seiu Itoh’s images.

These are the first photos we did together and certainly it was a challenging start!

We reproduced some of the most famous tortures:

mizuzeme – water torture – where the prisoner was dived upside down in water
ebizeme – shrimp torture – so called because the body is forced in a shrimp shaped curved position; the torture wasn’t painful, but the prisoner was left in this position for days and he sufferred loss of sensations in the legs, difficulty breathing and hard pain on the back
Suruga doi – the interrogatory of the Suruga district – where the prisoner was suspended with wrists and ankles behind the back and with some stones hanging from the waist in order to make the position more painful
ishidaki – litt. “embracing the stones” – where the prisoner was sitting on a bench with wooden wenches – called “soroban” – and some stones were placed on the legs to crush them
tsurizeme – generic term for all the torture with suspension, especially for the one also known as “strappado” in the West
mokubazeme – wooden horse torture – where the prisoner rode a wooden wedge with stones hanging from the ankles

We could recreate this tortures but in a safe and pleasant way, transforming them in an intense and fashinating experience where pain becomes pleasure.

Enjoy the beauty of suffering in coldeyes’ eyes.

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Tsurizeme

Mokubazeme

Ebizeme

Ishidaki

Suruga doi

Mizuzeme

coldeyes