????????. [Shiga-ken ikeizai zukai]. Illustrated Explanation of Minor Criminal Offenses, Shiga Prefecture.

[IMAI KICHIB?]. ?????.

Verlag: ?????. [Imai Kichib?]. Meiji 15 [1882], 1882

Beschreibung

Woodblock Japanese printed booklet containing 3 folded leaves. Text accompanied by small handcoloured illustrations showing the minor criminal offences described above. 7 x 3cm section of loss upper section of colour woodblock upper cover, stain lower cover upper cover and first two leaves, lacks lower cover but contents are complete, neatly rethreaded. Still an attractive copy of a fascinating and scarce item. A fascinating insight into crime and punishment in 1880s Japan, this little booklet provides colour-illustrated explanations of minor crimes, with details of the punishments which apply to them in Shiga Prefecture. It appears to have been designed for distribution to the public - perhaps to shops, small businesses etc. From it, we learn (amongst other things) that you could be imprisoned for between 3 and 10 days or fined a sum between 1 and 1.95 yen for giving lodging to a foreigner without recording their address properly. A sentence of 2 to 5 days imprisonment or a fine applied to people who sold raw fugu (highly poisonous without proper treatment), sold the meat of diseased animals, offered photos or woodblock prints of the Emperor and Empress for sale, or cremated the dead without official permission or in a place other than the officially approved cremation sites, while a sentence of between 1 and 12 days applied to crimes which included flying paper kites near overhead telegraph lines. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 170899

Bibliografische Details

Titel: ????????. [Shiga-ken ikeizai zukai]. ...

Verlag: ?????. [Imai Kichib?]. Meiji 15 [1882]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1882