C Series (C1-C6)

The C series condences ten courts onto six scrolls with Yama and the Wheel-turning King in the fifth and tenth courts respectively still privileged to preside over their own scrolls. With the exception of the first and tenth courts, the actual contents of particular scrolls are not fixed. Like Legos, the tortures, heroes and villains can be snapped together in any combination that fits the spatial dimensions. Thus there is little problem of multiple judges overseeing a common court. In terms of particular composition, compare the lower portions of these scrolls with those of A journey through Chinese hell by Neal Donnelly, pp. 65-105 and Ten kings of Hades: The Vidor collection, pp. 27-49. It is not uncommon for three or four identically composed torture scenes to be replicated in tandem with one another on different sets of scrolls even if other parts of the scrolls radically differ. (Image: 79 X 151 cm.)