Excerpt from "Gokuja," The history of Japan, giving an account of the ancient and present state and government of that empire. London, 1727. 261.

Excerpt from "Gokuja," The history of Japan, giving an account of the ancient and present state and government of that empire. London, 1727. 261.

Japan, Dejima, Nagasaki, jail, prison

Transcription: Gokuja, Hell, or as it is otherwise call'd Roja, the Cage. By this they mean the Prison, which stands about the middle of the town, at the corner of a descending street. It consists of many separate huts and small rooms, to accommodate Prisoners according to their quality, or the crimes they stand committed for. Besides those who are put in prison for crimes committed at Nagasacki, smuglers also are confin'd there, and persons taken up on suspicion of professing the Christian faith, so that it often contains above a hundred Prisoners, and tho' clear'd by frequent executions seldom less than fifty. There are within its compass, a place, where the Prisoners are put [...]

Engelbert Kaempfer

Engelbert Kaempfer, The history of Japan, giving an account of the ancient and present state and government of that empire. London, 1727. From the collection of the James Ford Bell Library.

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