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A kaishakunin (Japanese: 介錯人, lit. ' assist mistake person ') is a man appointed to behead an individual who has performed seppuku, Japanese ritual suicide, at the moment of agony. The role played by the kaishakunin is called kaishaku.
On occasion, if the sentenced individuals were uncooperative, seppuku could be carried out by an executioner, or more often, the actual execution was carried out solely by decapitation while retaining only the trappings of seppuku; even the tantō laid out in front of the uncooperative offender could be replaced with a fan (to prevent ...
Executioner's sword (16th century) A decapitation scene as shown in Cosmographia universalis of Sebastian Münster (1552). An executioner's sword is a sword designed specifically for decapitation of condemned criminals (as opposed to combat). These swords were intended for two-handed use, but were lacking a point, so that their overall blade ...
The execution sword of Katte , supposedly an executioner's sword used to behead Hans Hermann von Katte. There are two swords purporting to be the genuine sword: The execution sword of Katte (18th century), kept at the City Museum of Brandenburg until 2014, when the sword was returned to the von Katte family. [37]
Japanese urban legends, enduring modern Japanese folktales; La Llorona, the ghost of a woman in Latin American folklore; Madam Koi Koi, an African urban legend about the ghost of a dead teacher; Ouni, a Japanese yōkai with a face like that of a demon woman (kijo) torn from mouth to ear
Photos and videos of various soldiers posing with his severed head were widely circulated online after his death. [1] Genadi Petrosyan (2020) – ethnically Armenian citizen of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Republic of Artsakh) beheaded by Azerbaijani soldiers during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
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.
Decapitation by sword [citation needed] Execution by hanging [citation needed] Sawing [3] Waist-cutting (cutting the person in half). [citation needed] The Kanazawa han coupled this with decapitation [citation needed]. The death penalty often carried collateral punishments.