Posted on 06/25/2024 2:00:29 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1579, the treacherous execution of a rebellious Japanese lord set events in motion that would shape the nation’s destiny.
For two centuries, Japan had been shaken with civil strife in the Sengoku, or “Warring States”, period.
Hatano Hideharu, chief of the minor Hatano clan, got himself on the outs with powerful daimyo Oda Nobunaga. Nobunaga’s samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide forced Hideharu’s capitulation, convincing him to lay down his arms by offering his own mother as a hostage.*
And here’s where the bodies start piling up.
Nobunaga overruled Mitsuhide’s promise of safe conduct and had Hatano Hideharu put to death.
Outraged, the Hatano clan retaliated by crucifying Akechi Mitsuhide’s mother.
Since Mitsuhide suffered the consequences for the bad behavior of his boss, this tit-for-tat left a bit of tension between the two. (The Hatano were done as a factor in Japanese politics, so having served to poison this relationship, our story takes its leave of them here.)....
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I'd say his mom was the one who suffered.
https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
Dan Carlin’s Super Nova in the East is a very interesting history and explanation of Japan.
Free, half way down, posted in reverse order for some reason.
Did the Japanese pick up execution by crucifixion from the Portugese missionaries? It’s not as if they did not have any number of excruciatingly cruel methods themselves.
Hey, cultural appropriation and all that....
The Horrifying, Little-Known History of Japanese Crucifixion
https://www.ranker.com/list/history-of-japanese-crucifixion/melissa-sartore
I think it was a homegrown form of execution. Unlike Roman crucifixions, the victim was tied to the cross and stabbed with sharp bamboo stakes.
Thx for the link. So according to that article it was “introduced” to Japan at some point.
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