Assertion: punishment's use | /r/CapableOf | continue throughout the edo period
Facets:
value: into the early meiji period
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: These harsh methods, and liberal use of the death penalty, continued throughout the Edo period and into the early Meiji period, but due to the influence of Confucianism, offenses against masters and elders were increasingly punished much more harshly than offenses against those of lower rank.