Japan has a bathtub named after a thief who was boiled alive. - Video

Ishikawa Goemon was executed in Kyoto in 1594, under the rule of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Very little about him is certain. The earliest records call him simply a thief, and even the date of his death is disputed. The Robin Hood reputation, the night in Hideyoshi’s castle and the story of his son all come from the plays and legends that grew up later. The bath is real, though: a Goemon-buro is an iron tub heated from below, and people in Japan still use them.

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