This Is Gonna Hurt, Chinese Punishment Edition
This looks like a formal punishment to me, but I don’t know anything about the art or the artist:
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This looks like a formal punishment to me, but I don’t know anything about the art or the artist:
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with her hands in the locks, wonder if her feet are restrained as well. that stick on that bottom is going to hurt a lot. her stoic look on her face gives nothing away
Given the style of the cap on the seated gentleman’s head, this looks very much like a judge interrogating a reluctant witness. Robert Van Gulik, translator of the classic Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An (“Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee”) went on to write a great many Chinese-style mystery stories centering on its protagonist, the legendary magistrate Ti Jen-djieh, an actual historcal figure who rose to high office under the ruthless 8th-century Empress Wu. These Far-Eastern “police procedurals” contain a good deal of enlightening information about the working of the Chinese justice system, in which the administration of floggings with bamboo canes or rods to both male and female bottoms is described in matter-of-fact detail.(That Van Gulik was also a collector of Oriental erotica is neither here nor there.) See, for example, his early novel The Chinese Nail Murders, in which a woman is interrogated in much the way depicted above.