Hole-searing

Japanese: 穴晒 - あなさらし

...A punishment in which the prisoner was tied to the roadside and exposed to the public as an example (migorashi), a humiliating punishment. Under the Shogunate's laws, there were two types of punishment: normal sarashi, in which the prisoner was tied to a post and made to sit on straw mats, and ana-sarashi, in which the prisoner was made to sit on a box buried in the ground with only his head exposed. The former was called oka-sarashi, as opposed to ana-sarashi, and is well known for being imposed on a monk who had committed sexual assault against a woman, and on a man and woman who had attempted double suicide (mutual suicide)....

From [Sawing]

…It was seen in the Japanese Middle Ages and the early modern period, and in the Edo Shogunate system, it was the maximum punishment applied only to murder. Until the Sengoku period, the head was actually chopped off with a bamboo saw, but the Edo Shogunate law sawing was a formalization of that, and was carried out as a kind of exposure punishment called ana-sarashi. In other words, the criminal was placed in a box buried in the ground, and only the head, shackled, was allowed to emerge from the ground. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "anasaraki" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…受刑者を路傍に引き据え，みせしめ(見懲（みごらし）)として衆目に晒し恥辱の制裁を与えたもの。幕府の法では柱に縛してむしろに座せしめる通常の晒と，土中に埋めた箱に着座させ首だけを地上に出す穴晒（あなさらし）とがあった。前者は穴晒に対して陸晒（おかさらし）と呼び，女犯（によぼん）の所化（しよけ）僧，心中(相対死（あいたいじに）)未遂の男女両人に科したことでよく知られる。…

【鋸挽】より

…日本の中世，近世にみられ，江戸幕府の制度では主殺（しゆうごろし）にのみ適用する最高刑であった。戦国時代までは竹鋸で実際に首を挽いたが，江戸幕府法の鋸挽はその形式化したもので，一種の晒（さらし）刑たる穴晒（あなさらし）として行われた。すなわち土中に埋めた箱に罪人を入れ，枷（かせ）を施した首だけを地上に出させる。…

※「穴晒」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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