The Shikken (Prime Ministers) Were Hojo
Tokiyori (1246); Hojo Tokimune (1261); Hojo Sadatoki (1284).
In 1266
Prince Kore-yasu and in 1289 Hisa-akira, were appointed shogun.
- H.C.]
NOTE 2. - Ram. says he was sent to a certain island called Zorza
(Chorcha?), where men who have failed in duty are put to death in this
manner: They wrap the arms of the victim in the hide of a newly flayed
buffalo, and sew it tight. As this dries it compresses him so terribly
that he cannot move, and so, finding no help, his life ends in misery. The
same kind of torture is reported of different countries in the East:
e.g. see Makrizi, Pt. III. p. 108, and Pottinger, as quoted by Marsden
in loco. It also appears among the tortures of a Buddhist hell as
represented in a temple at Canton. (Oliphant's Narrative, I. 168.)
NOTE 3. - Like devices to procure invulnerability are common in the
Indo-Chinese countries. The Burmese sometimes insert pellets of gold under
the skin with this view. At a meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in
1868, gold and silver coins were shown, which had been extracted from under
the skin of a Burmese convict who had been executed at the Andaman Islands.
Friar Odoric speaks of the practice in one of the Indian Islands
(apparently Borneo); and the stones possessing such virtue were, according
to him, found in the bamboo, presumably the siliceous concretions called
Tabashir. Conti also describes the practice in Java of inserting such
amulets under the skin.
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