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Elden Ring [b] is a 2020 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware. It was directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki with worldbuilding provided by American fantasy writer George R. R. Martin . It was published for PlayStation 4 , PlayStation 5 , Windows , Xbox One , and Xbox Series X/S on February 25 in Japan by FromSoftware and internationally ...
Seppuku was used by warriors to avoid falling into enemy hands and to attenuate shame and avoid possible torture. [9] [10] Samurai could also be ordered by their daimyō (feudal lords) to carry out seppuku. Later, disgraced warriors were sometimes allowed to carry out seppuku rather than be executed in the normal manner.
In other seppuku rituals, the cut to the neck may be done as the condemned person simply reaches for the tanto. The reaching gave honor to the condemned, as he was exhibiting intent by doing so, and the "early" stroke of the sword could be dismissed as a small mistake in timing by an overzealous kaishakunin.
Kaishaku (介錯) is a group of two manga artists consisting of Hitoshi Ota and Terumasa Shichinohe. The name comes from Kaishakunin (介錯人), an appointed second person whose duty it is to decapitate one who commits seppuku - ritual suicide by disembowelment.
Minecraft is recognized as one of the first successful games to use an early access model to draw in sales prior to its full release version to help fund development. [276] As Minecraft helped to bolster indie game development in the early 2010s, it also helped to popularize the use of the early access model in indie game development. [355]
A woodblock print depicting the wife of Onodera Junai, one of the forty-seven rōnin.She prepares herself to follow her husband into death. Junshi (殉死, "following the lord in death", sometimes translated as "suicide through fidelity") refers to the medieval Japanese act of vassals committing suicide for the death of their lord.
Ashigaru wearing armor and jingasa firing tanegashima (Japanese matchlocks). Ashigaru (足軽, "light of foot") were infantry employed by the samurai class of feudal Japan.The first known reference to ashigaru was in the 14th century, [1] but it was during the Ashikaga shogunate (Muromachi period) that the use of ashigaru became prevalent by various warring factions.
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