Three facts about Samurai make you feel lucky to be born today

In order to become a samurai, they have to follow many rules, going through extremely strict lessons.

Speaking of Samurai fighters - remember immediately the brave Japanese warriors. But revolving around these warriors is an abundance of interesting and horrifying things that you feel so thankful for being born in modern society.

1. Sepuku - abdomen rite

Samurai fighters are known for their "martyrdom" spirit.

When it comes to Samurai, perhaps everyone will immediately think of this frightening ritual. Samurai samurai who are known for their "martyrdom" spirit, they value honor more than their lives. Therefore, when losing the battle, samurai boxers will slaughter themselves to preserve the reputation and avoid being disgraced by enemies.

But a frightening thing is that you may not know, it is the samurai who perform this ritual when their master dies, which means "dead master - follow master".

This terrifying suicide ceremony is not only for samurai but also by their wives. Specifically, when the samurai sinned or simply died, their wives will commit suicide. This ceremony is called jigai.

While doing the jigai, the woman will tie her legs tightly to show her permanent loyalty to her husband.

Images simulating jigai ceremony.

2. Tsujigiri - "slashing people at the intersection"

In the Warring States period, the samurai had an extremely brutal and scary custom. When owning a new sword, some samurai will stand at the crossroads at a time of absence and . slash some bad pedestrian.

This is merely to test the sharpness of the sword. However, there are also some sources that say this is done to . new swords.

There are some sources that say this slashing is done to . sacrifice new swords?

There are documents indicating that the samurai also performed this ritual when they wanted to practice, increasing their flexibility and flexibility.

In fact, tsujigiri is only made between martial artists.

In fact, tsujigiri is only made between martial artists. However, the social characteristics of the Sengoku period pushed this practice to uncontrolled normal killing. Therefore, until the Edo period, tsujigiri was banned and the samurai who performed tsujigiri would be executed.

3. Kabukimono - "street samurai festival"

Kabukimono is a group of samurai who no longer serve any owners. These groups appeared around the end of the Muromachi period and early Edo period. Don't let movies fool, they really aren't as cool as we think.

Kabukimono often dress extremely garish, wearing eye-catching accessories, even these people wear women's clothes. Not only is it weird about the costumes, these people also possess strange, different hair and beard styles.

Kabukimono often dress extremely garish.(Illustration).

Kabukimono consists of extremely violent and rude samurai. Slashing innocent people, making noises, disorderly public places, eating at restaurants without paying . are some of the bad things this samurai group usually does.

The kabukimono's "prosperity" period was in the Keicho period (1596 - 1615) and also began from that time, the rules became stricter, causing kabukimono groups to be gradually restricted.