（解説文要約）
明治中期に行われていた拷問を描いたものです。
正座した膝の上にヤマで使う坑木をのせています。
坑木は松の木で、40～50キロととても重く、相当辛かったことでしょう。

 

 

 

 

This is a picture depicting a form of torture which was actually conducted around 1890.
The person is being forced to sit on his knees with a pit prop placed in his lap.
The pine pit prop weighed as much as 40 to 50 kilograms which must have been extremely painful.