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Tsujigiri (辻斬り or 辻斬, literally “crossroads killing") is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during night time. The practitioners themselves are also referred to as tsujigiri.

The act of tsujigiri against defenceless civilians was widely and socially condemned as immoral, cowardly, and associated with rogue samurais and bandits, and was not considered common or respectable samurai practice. It was made a capital offence by law in 1602 by the Edo government.

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mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It was made a capital offence by law in 1602 by the Edo government.

Previous laws regarding murder didn’t cover it?

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- baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  samurai sometimes owned land and were part of the aristocracy, at the very least being retainers of lords and thus being a more privileged class and caste.
  
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  - captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    And furthermore, this is feudalism, a political and economic system defined by rigid social hierarchy crafted under a might makes right framework. The peasant class was generally considered disposable. Like, you can’t kill too many, and crap like this is considered bad form, but if you’re a samurai/knight the people with the power to enforce laws see you as one of them and the people with power over them see you as simply more valuable given that you’re a serious investment in training and equipment while they’re primarily manual laborers who replace themselves and produce the food they consume. But more than that they’re so far beneath them socially that their individual humanity is invisible.
    
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- Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Laws for thee not for me
  
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- Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Before that was the warring period. So effectively no.
  
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KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
辻 literally looks like a cross with roads.

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- TwilightKiddy@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  辶 has a meaning “road” and 十 is “ten”. In Japanese you’d say “jyuuji” if you want to refer to the cross shape, written “十字”, literally “ten character”. Kanji, despite being a semantic writing system, often will not have such a clean breakdown by radicals, but this time everything checks out.
  
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starik@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Assholes

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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

辻斬り or 辻斬, literally “crossroads killing”

So either ‘crossroads killing’ or ‘crossroads killing and a swirl’.

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