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Armoured samurai with sword and dagger, c.1860 Because the right was defined as a part of self defence, kiri-sute gomen had a set of tight rules. The strike had to follow immediately after the offence, meaning that the striker could not attack someone for a past grievance or after a substantial amount of time.
The other Monkees engage in a court battle to save Peter's soul and convince the devil that Peter does not need magic to play the harp. [107] Reaper is about a young man, Sam Oliver, whose parents made a deal with the devil to save the father from a serious illness in exchange for the soul of their firstborn child. Oliver must now work as Satan ...
Akira Fudo (Japanese: 不動明, Hepburn: Fudō Akira) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Devilman manga series created by Go Nagai.A shy teenager living in Japan while his parents work abroad, Akira absorbs the powers of the devil Amon thanks to his friend Ryo Asuka.
Seppuku (切腹, lit. ' cutting [the] belly '), also called harakiri (腹切り, lit. ' abdomen/belly cutting ', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment.
I have stopped trying to get the poor devil buried, but i hereby record that he, though very dead, still lies above the earth! [83] The death toll of civilians is difficult to precisely calculate due to the many bodies deliberately burnt, buried in mass graves, or dumped into the Yangtze River.
The hundred man killing contest (百人斬り競争, hyakunin-giri kyōsō) was a newspaper account of a contest between Toshiaki Mukai (3 June 1912 – 28 January 1948) and Tsuyoshi Noda (1912 – 28 January 1948), two Japanese Army officers serving during the Japanese invasion of China, over who could kill 100 people the fastest while using a sword.
Kenshin is a former legendary assassin known as "Hitokiri Battōsai" (人斬り抜刀斎), [note 1] more properly named Himura Battōsai (緋村抜刀斎). At the end of the Bakumatsu , he becomes a wandering swordsman, now wielding a sakabatō ( 逆刃刀 , literally "reverse-blade sword") —a katana that has the cutting edge on the inwardly ...
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Roman Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.