Anon is a Japanese peasant

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• lasta@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Context:

  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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Laws for thee not for me

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    • Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Before that was the warring period. So effectively no.

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  • KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    辻 literally looks like a cross with roads.

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    • TwilightKiddy@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago

    Assholes

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    辻斬り or 辻斬, literally “crossroads killing”

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

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• Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Something about the expression and composition on that little Pepe comic reminds me of old Mad magazines.

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol. Spy vs Spy maybe?

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have to wonder if the pic is made by AI, because it’s fascinating to me that some people keep cranking out elaborate Pepe images. Shitposting in text is easy, drawing not so much.

    The OP image is rather low-res, but I don’t see any particularly obvious bullshit in the Pepe pic. Other than the fact that drawing full five fingers is unusual for a comic.

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