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'Secret teachings' about ritual Samurai beheading revealed in newly translated Japanese texts
Live Science ^ | October 1, 2024 | Owen Jarus

Posted on 10/09/2024 11:13:47 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Four newly translated Japanese texts describe how ritual samurai beheadings were supposed to take place during the Edo period and later.

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This 1860 photo shows a samurai with a raised sword. Four newly translated texts shed light on how samurai carried out the death ritual of Seppuku. (Image credit: Heritage Images / Contributor via Getty Images) Four texts that discuss how the samurai carried out Seppuku, a ritual death in which a fellow samurai would usually behead another, have been translated into English for the first time. While the popular imagination often has the samurai stabbing themselves in the stomach and taking their own lives, this rarely happened during the Edo period (1603 to 1868).

The earliest of the four translated texts, named "The Inner Secrets of Seppuku," dates to the 17th century. "This document contains secret teachings that are traditionally only taught verbally, however they have been recorded here so that these lessons will not be forgotten and Samurai can be prepared," wrote Mizushima Yukinari, a samurai who lived between 1607 and 1697, a time when a shogun effectively ruled Japan. While the emperor was technically the ruler of Japan, the shogun held actual political control of the country. During the Edo period, the shoguns were descended from Tokugawa Ieyasu, a warlord who rose to power in Japan and became shogun in 1603.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: edoperiod; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; japan; japanese; middleages; mizushimayukinari; renaissance; samurai; seppuku; shogun; tokugawaieyasu
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To: nickcarraway

I told you it was supposed to be the head!!


21 posted on 10/09/2024 3:04:33 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg
You talk about honor, and I keep thinking Nanking and Bataan.

I've been fed this PR about Japan since I was a kid, and, sure, they are now civilized and well behaved in the sense of not being murderous barbarians, but until September 2, 1945, and a forced unconditional surrender, they would have been happy to enslave and slaughter us as far as they could go. Carving out fetuses from pregnant women's abdomens, mass rape, burning people alive. You know they would have been happy to do it.

Don't deny that. There was no reasoning with them. Their barbarity and arrogance was every bit as bad as that of the Third Reich.

And don't think they were nice to the Vietnamese and Koreans either. Think comfort women and Unit 731.

People like MacArthur were enamored with their so-called culture and let them keep their pagan man-god emperor instead of us hanging him, which is what should have happened. They wouldn't have spared Truman or Roosevelt from torture and hanging if the tables were turned.

So I've pretty much educated myself about Japan and I know full well that they have not yet atoned for what they did. Like the Saudis and Germans, they are in limbo as far as I am concerned. They are pagan, unrepented, reprobates. Haven't done anything for us lately BTW.

22 posted on 10/09/2024 5:08:56 PM PDT by caddie
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To: z3n

I’ve read all I need to read about Japanese culture.


23 posted on 10/09/2024 5:11:10 PM PDT by caddie
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To: nickcarraway

24 posted on 10/09/2024 5:46:20 PM PDT by fso301
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To: caddie

I eat with those two skinny sticks- đôi đũa and the wife often accuses me of eating too fast after she spends hours in the kitchen etc. It would be faster, I suppose, to shovel it in with my hands but that would be impolite.


25 posted on 10/14/2024 11:35:21 AM PDT by ThanhPhero
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Indeed.


26 posted on 10/14/2024 11:35:52 AM PDT by ThanhPhero
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To: ThanhPhero
Cảm ơn bài viết hay của bạn, Thanh Phero.

Tôi không chống lại người An Nam; Tôi thích họ.

Tôi không hài lòng với việc anh chàng đó sùng bái văn hóa Nhật Bản.

Thưởng thức gậy gầy của bạn!

27 posted on 10/14/2024 2:42:56 PM PDT by caddie
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To: caddie; ThanhPhero

Translated for everybody else:

Thank you for your great article, Thanh Phero.

I’m not against the Annamese people; I like them.

I’m not happy with that guy culturing Japanese culture.

Enjoy your skinny stick!


28 posted on 10/14/2024 2:56:03 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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