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  2. Sakura Sōgorō - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. Criminal punishment in Edo-period Japan - Wikipedia

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    Crucifixion for killing a parent, husband etc. [citation needed] 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.

  4. Junshi - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Kiri-sute gomen - Wikipedia

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    Kiri-sute gomen (斬捨御免 or 切捨御免) is a Japanese expression regarding the feudal era tradition of right to strike: the right of samurai to strike and even kill with their sword anyone of a lower class who compromised their honour. [1]

  6. Infanticide - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of massacres in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Akiyoshi Umekawa shot dead four people in a Mitsubishi Bank 31 January 1980: Nigishima murders: Nigishima, Kumano, Mie Prefecture Kazumichi Ikeda 8 (including the perpetrator) Farmer Kazumichi Ikeda kills seven members of his family and injures 3 with an ax and a shotgun before killing himself [15] [16] [17] 19 August 1980: Shinjuku bus attack

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  9. Ashigaru - Wikipedia

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    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.