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TIL the Japanese have a word Tsujigiri (辻斬) which means to test out a new sword on a random passerby.

via reddit.com

Yeah samurai were like that

holy shit today i rly did fuckin learn

A cop tests out his knife by stabbing you and his buddies don’t do shit, suddenly gangs happen cause the people don’t wanna be stabbed. Surprise

i like this reblog bc it implies that cops are mercenaries hired/paid by the rich

Weeaboos act like samurais were so honorable and jack off too The Last Samurais as if the preservation of Bushido culture was a good

That’s the same “samurai culture” that enabled Japanese soldiers to decapitate POWs with their katanas.

I recall vaguely seeing in a documentary or reading in a book (I don’t precisely remember so take this with a grain of salt) that part of the reason that the chivalric code became a thing in the Middle Ages was to try to give knights something to work towards so they would just stop raping and pillaging and sieging because they were bored…

Romanticization is fine and good and historical accuracy is also good and it’s important to know where one ends and the other begins