田甲 / Tian Jia (Han Anguo's Jailer)

Overview

田甲 / Tian Jia is the Liang jailer in the episode’s completed “死灰复燃” anecdote. This page uses a disambiguated identity because the wiki already contains 田假 / Tian Jia, a different person from the Qin-Han transition.

Current Profile

Hanji 266 part 2 says Tian Jia had humiliated the imprisoned 韩安国 and answered Han’s warning that dead ash might rekindle by saying he would urinate on it. When Han returns to high office, Tian Jia flees in fear of revenge.

Han reportedly threatens Tian Jia’s family to force his return, repeats the urination taunt after Tian Jia apologizes, and then refuses to punish him because he considers the jailer beneath revenge. Tian Jia’s role is therefore not an independent career profile; he is the vulnerable counterparty through whom the source examines abuse during another person’s weakness and restraint after a reversal of power.

Key Characteristics

• Liang jailer accused in the episode of humiliating Han Anguo during imprisonment.
• Speaker of the urination-on-rekindled-ash response associated with the “死灰复燃” story.
• Frightened fugitive who returns after Han’s restoration and is ultimately spared.

Evidence

Prison humiliation and idiom exchange:

• Hanji 266 part 2 attributes repeated humiliation and the urination response to Tian Jia.

Flight, return, and pardon:

• Hanji 266 part 2 says he flees after Han’s restoration, returns under threat, apologizes, and is not punished.

Qualifications

The page is bounded to one retelling of an anecdote. Tian Jia’s office, conduct, exact words, flight, family threat, apology, and Han’s reason for sparing him require comparison with the transmitted historical text. The moral lesson drawn from the story should not be mistaken for a full biography or an independent account of Liang prison administration.

What Changed

• Established a disambiguated page for the jailer 田甲 rather than merging him with the existing 田假.
• Recorded his role in both the humiliation and the restrained-retaliation halves of the anecdote.

Relationships

• 韩安国 - imprisoned official whom Tian Jia humiliates and who later spares him after regaining power.
• 退让留余地式治理 - adjacent restraint pattern because Han stops short of punishment after establishing dominance.
• 田假 / Tian Jia - unrelated historical figure whose similar romanization requires explicit disambiguation.