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Over the course of six snowy days, a male Ezo brown bear attacked a number of households, killing seven people and injuring a further three. The incident has been referred to as "the worst animal attack in Japanese history". [3] The attacks ended when the hungry bear, so smart it started to trick people, was shot dead. [4] [5]
Women of feudal Japan (4 C) 0–9. 13th-century Japanese people (3 C, 19 P) 14th-century Japanese people (5 C, 20 P) 15th-century Japanese people (4 C, 17 P)
Since feudal Edo era Japan the common slang for infanticide was mabiki (間引き), which means to pull plants from an overcrowded garden. A typical method in Japan was smothering the baby's mouth and nose with wet paper. [90] It became common as a method of population control. Farmers would often kill their second or third sons.
During the Edo period (1603–1868), the Tokugawa shogunate formed a centralized feudal government. [1] Samurai warriors who once protected Japan from foreign enemies and fought each other for supremacy became the new police and internal security force. [2] Their new job would be to ensure civil peace, which they accomplished for over 250 years ...
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. [citation needed] One was parading the criminal around town prior to execution(市中引き回し).
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.
In 1860, Ii Naosuke was the most influential advisor to the shogunate. Ii Naosuke, a leading figure of the Bakumatsu period and a proponent of the reopening of Japan after more than 200 years of seclusion, was widely criticized for signing the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States (negotiated by U.S. Consul to Japan Townsend Harris) and, soon afterwards, similar treaties ...
Kiuchi Sōgorō (木内 惣五郎), also known as Sakura Sōgorō (佐倉 惣五郎) (1605 – September 1653) was a legendary Japanese farmer whose real family name was Kiuchi. He is said to have appealed directly to the shōgun in 1652 when he was serving as a headman of one of the villages in the Sakura Domain .