tsujigiri
Sign in to saveTsujigiri ( or , literally "crossroads killing") is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during night time. The practitioners themselves are also referred to as tsujigiri.
Key facts
- Civilian attack.title
- 1696 Yoshiwara spree killing
- Civilian attack.image
- Sano Jirozaemon Murdering a Courtesan LACMA M.84.31.539a-b.jpg
- Civilian attack.caption
- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's Sano Jirōzaemon Murdering a Courtesan (1886)
- Civilian attack.location
- Yoshiwara, Edo, Tokugawa shogunate (Japan)
- Civilian attack.date
- December 1696
- Civilian attack.perp
- Sano Jirōzaemon
- Civilian attack.weapons
- Katana
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- 1696 spree killing
- Reactions against
- Mary Midgley's "Trying Out One's New Sword"
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Tsujigiri ( or , literally "crossroads killing") is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during night time. The practitioners themselves are also referred to as tsujigiri.
The act of tsujigiri against defenceless civilians was widely and socially condemned as immoral, cowardly, and associated with rogue samurais and bandits, and was not considered common or respectable samurai practice. It was made a capital offence by law in 1602 by the Edo government.