The treadle-operated rice-husking hammer

Translation

Recompense for murder and arson.




A second example of the rice-husking machine from another hell scroll (S9).
(Note how the composition is identical with the previous example even though the style and text is so different. Such is the case with the whole picture program of this particular scroll.)

A third example of the rice-husking machine from another hell scroll (C1).
(Here the hell is labeled "Hell of the iron caldron.")

A fourth example of the rice-husking machine from another hell scroll (B3).

I3 rice husker
A fifth example of the rice-husking machine from another hell scroll (I3). Yet in this case we are witnessing a moment of merciful intercession. Above (not pictured), Guanyin is entering the court, pouring her elixir to rescue the damned. Here one of the people about to be tortured is pointing to the flowing mercy which is transforming itself into lotus blossoms, including where the pestle is coming into contact with his colleague.
J4 rice husker
A sixth example of the rice-husking machine from another hell scroll (J4).
L07 grain pounder
A seventh example of the rice-husking machine from another hell scroll (L07).
M02 pounder
An eighth example of the rice-husking machine from another hell scroll (M02), here punishing unfilial children.
Feng pounder
An example of the rice husking machine in the late Qing woodblock text Fengxing jueshi zhenjing 奉行覺世真經 (1882).