As early as ancient Japan, the most common method of execution in the death penalty was beheading, because it was too cruel, so the beheading punishment was explicitly abolished during the Meiji Restoration in Japan, but according to historical records, the last person to be beheaded in Japan was actually a woman, and this woman also had a lot of potential, with the title of "Meiji poisonous woman", and it is said that a strange thing happened when he was executed.
In Japanese culture, a woman who plays with men is called an evil daughter, a woman who plays with men and kills a man is called a poisonous woman, Takahashi Akane is sentenced to death for killing people, but some people say that it is very unfair to call him a poisonous woman.
Why? Let's go into more detail about his story. At 7:00 a.m. on August 27, 1876, at a hotel called Bunjuku in Tokyo, Japan, a woman left the hotel in a hurry, leaving a few words before he left, saying that I had left beforehand, my husband was still sleeping in the room, he was not very good-tempered, please don't wake him up.
Because the hotel attendants all saw this beautiful woman staying here with a man last night. So I didn't suspect anything, but until noon the room was still not moving at all, the hotel attendant felt that something was wrong, so he entered the room to check, and when he pushed the door, he was suddenly stunned by the thick smell of blood.
When I opened the futon on the bed, I saw that a man had been cut in the throat and died in a pool of blood, and all the belongings he was carrying were gone. After the police investigation, it was learned that the man who was killed was the owner of a local clothing store named Goto Yoshizo. The woman who escaped was Takahashi Atsun.
It didn't take long for the police to arrest him, the year was Meiji 9, and when he was arrested, Ah Chuan was just 25 years old.
Because of this robbery and murder incident, Takahashi Akane became a famous poisonous woman in Japanese history, because it occurred in the Meiji period, so she was called Meiji poison woman, but if you carefully understand his story, you may know that this young woman's life has fallen to the bottom. Being arrested and imprisoned was even a relief for him.
Takahashi Achuan was born in an ordinary peasant family in Japan, it seems that both parents are complete, but his father always suspects that Achuan is not her own child, but his wife and a samurai who once served, so later after his mother died early, his father soon stopped caring about him, sent him to a relative's family as an adopted daughter, when he was 14 years old, Achuan was married to a bad old man, often abused, after a year or two, Achuan really could not stand this life, he ran away from marriage, living a life of upheaval and displacement. Until I met the Pillar of Takahashi Wave.
It is this man who makes the helpless Ah Chuan have a real home, the two people love each other very much, and life is getting better day by day.
But fate is always impermanent, and just when the two people are full of expectations for the future, Bo Zhizhu suddenly suffers from a terminal illness, which cannot be cured by the medical level at that time, but it seems that he will not die immediately.
This said to Takahashi A- Akira. His misfortune began from this, in order to cure the disease they spent all their savings, and also tried to work as a maid, but the income could not afford her husband's medical expenses, and later she found a fast-paying business that was to sell her flesh.
The more money there is, the more time to take care of the seriously ill husband, but the heavens do not pity them not long after Takahashi Bao ate and lived or died, and the 21-year-old Ah Chuan became a widow. In order to make a living, he had to marry a merchant and become a concubine.
Ah Chuan learned some business skills from the businessman, and often went out to do business, and she was young and beautiful, and she soon attracted a man named Ogawa Sitaro, according to legend. This Ogawa is a samurai by birth, very handsome and temperamental, Ah Chuan thought that he would bring improvement to his life, so the two quickly established a lover relationship.
However, it was the Meiji period, and during the Meiji period in Japan, the privileges of this samurai class gradually disappeared, but. Ogawa Sitaro has always considered himself a four-star samurai and is reluctant to do the work of a subservient person, and persuades Ah Chuan to sell tea together to make a living.
But Ogawa is actually just an idiot who only eats soft rice, and Ah Chuan is working his own.
The money earned was squandered by Ogawa to repay the debt, and it was in this state of operation that Ah Chuan owed a lot of foreign debt.
Later, after being introduced, Takahashi Aden met a businessman, Goto Yoshizo, and wanted to borrow a little money from him to turn around the business, but. Unexpectedly, this Goto was an old rogue, and he said that as long as Abune was willing to sleep with him, he would borrow money, so it happened at the beginning of the story told at the beginning of the day, Takahashi and The Boat and this Goto Yoshizo went to the hotel to open a room.
We all know what happened later, but no one can tell what the truth is, when the police arrested Ah Chuan, they charged him with robber homicide, and the court believed that he deliberately killed Goto and robbed the money. In that era, when a woman dared to kill a man, it was an unforgivable crime, so she directly sentenced him to death.
Ah Chuan himself refused to admit it, telling the police that Goto Yoshizo was actually the husband of his half-sister, and that Goten secretly killed her sister.
In Ah Chuan's confession, he said that while he was a concubine for a merchant, his sister's landlord once sent someone to bring him a message. He said that his sister had suddenly moved, disappeared without a trace, and disappeared with his brother-in-law.
After several years, Ah Chuan suddenly discovered that the boss he had just met, Goto Yoshizo, was the missing brother-in-law, and he not only changed his name, but also changed his wife. But only her sister was gone, so Ah Chuan always felt that Goto had killed her sister, so he asked Goto to talk about it.
The two men quarreled during the conversation, and Goto fought back with a razor to avenge his sister, but the courts he said did not believe it, and were completely rejected by the court, so Takahashi Azun was still sentenced to death.
When he was arrested, all the major newspapers and periodicals were published by Takahashi Achuan to sell his flesh in order to borrow money, but Afterwards Goto refused to admit it. That's all the way to kill people.
As early as 1870, the Japanese government announced the use of hanging to replace the previous beheading punishment, when both laws were enforced, during the parallel period of the two laws, death row inmates can choose to behead or hang, generally speaking, prisoners at that time will choose less painful hanging, but Ah Chuan did not take the usual path, he took the initiative to choose beheading.
Some people say that he chose a more drastic method of death because of his grievances, so on January 31, 1879, the 28-year-old Takahashi Adenon became the last beheaded in the history of Japanese criminal law.
The executioner who executed the beheading, Yoshiori Yamada, came from one of the most mysterious families in Japan, that is, the hereditary executioner family, that is, this family has been an executioner for generations, and their family does not do anything else every day, that is, to kill.
But on the day of the execution, the ancestral craft was lost by this Yamada Yoshiori, and other executors were beheaded. The former male prisoner was frightened and squeaked, and Takahashi Achuan, who was waiting next to him, actually said very contemptuously, still a man, really timid, looking at me,
Besides, this executioner, Yamada Yoshiryo, was a knife, and when he brought Ah Chuan up, Ah Chuan began to shout the name of her lover Ogawa Sitaro, searching everywhere for his figure at the execution ground, and struggling desperately for a moment.
This kind of struggle caused Yamada Yoshiryo to lose his hand twice in a row, and suddenly became the laughing stock of the whole audience, until the 3rd time, Yamada Yoshiryo was able to cut off A chuan's head, just after this execution, in 1881, Japan officially abolished the beheading punishment, all changed to Western hanging, so this failed beheading became Yamada Yoshiori's exit show, after losing people and losing his job, it is equivalent to saying that he will no longer do this line of work.
Why did Takahashi Become So Famous Later? That's because the early Meiji period was quite chaotic, social unrest, vicious crimes were not uncommon, a small murder incident should have been stoned in the sea, it is estimated that not many people have heard of it, but at that time there was a popular novelist who wrote a book called Takahashi Achuan Night Fork Tan.
In the book of the novel, a lot of virtual characters and plots are written, and Ah Chuan's is written as a woman who uses the flesh to deceive men and do no evil, saying that he is so tall, emotional and physical, that he is a poisonous woman, so he cannot cut off his neck at once.
This writer must also be a good hype today, this novel, ah, captured the Japanese curiosity, spread quickly, so the fire spread throughout the streets, the Japanese Meiji poisonous women live to be famous.
Since 1912, Takahashi Aden, the curious Japanese have made films about him continuously, and so far no less than 10 films have been made, including other novels, stage plays, and even slowly developed on the erotic route. To this day, takahashi's image of a poisoned Meiji woman is still deeply rooted in the minds of Japanese people.