LSE4326057 The torment of the well, the victim, head down, is hanged in a cistern, which is closed with boards to make it completely obscure, death does not lead to the supplicy until after about ten days, this torment was very used against Japanese Christians who refused to abjure their faith. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Japan in 1863-1864, by Aime Humbert, minister of the Swiss Confederation, in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages?? published under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1866, Paris. Selva Collection. by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The torment of the well, the victim, head down, is hanged in a cistern, which is closed with boards to make it completely obscure, death does not lead to the supplicy until after about ten days, this torment was very used against Japanese Christians who refused to abjure their faith. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Japan in 1863-1864, by Aime Humbert, minister of the Swiss Confederation, in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages?? published under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1866, Paris. Selva Collection.); Photo by Leonard de Selva.