Japanese Tradition of Crossroads Killing

"in Japan we have a little tradition called Murdering A Homeless Person" lmao how is this real Tsujigiri Tsujigiri (辻斬り or 辻斬, 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 nighttime. [1] The practitioners themselves are also

The image jokes about a Wikipedia entry describing tsujigiri, a historical practice in which samurai tested new weapons by attacking random defenseless passers-by. The exaggerated caption pretends that Japan has a casual tradition of murdering homeless people, reacting with disbelief to the disturbing historical fact. EN: The image jokes about a Wikipedia entry describing tsujigiri, a historical practice in which samurai tested new weapons by attacking random defenseless passers-by. The exaggerated caption pretends that Japan has a casual tradition of murdering homeless people, reacting with disbelief to the disturbing historical fact.

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