"Enemy Of the World Tea House Gathering", the most famous kabuki of the Edo period.
"Enemy Of the World Tea House Gathering", the most famous kabuki of the Edo period. The victim of the story, Hayashi Genbo (Hayase Genbo), was an elder of the Sengoku daimyo Ukita Hideyoshi's family, who was assassinated on the eve of the Battle of Sekigahara on the eve of the Battle of Sekigahara on the night of September 2, 1600, by his colleague Masaburo Right Guard Gate (東間三郎右衛門). Nine years later, Genbo's two sons took revenge on him and took the enemy Saburo Right Gate at the Osaka Tanabaya.
In ancient and modern China and abroad, there will be murderous thugs who kill people, and there will also be heinous killings. After the tragedy, there were many shouts of killing in the name of justice, as if "one life pays one life" is the only remaining truth in the code.
In the face of these tragic incidents, whether the person concerned or not, the first words of many people are "should be slowly hacked to death with a knife and a knife." It seems that the judiciary is not at all in a hurry, and even protects the bad guys, so that justice cannot be truly done.
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Japan, the country of the samurai, since the samurai established the country by force, then the matter of revenge has of course become an important right to protect reputation and even the meaning of existence itself. As a result, "revenge" (meaning revenge) for many years became a means of self-demand, virtue, and extra-legal remedies for the Japanese in the samurai era. That is to say, whether or not to kill one's own respected enemy with one's own hands will not only directly affect the judgment of the people involved, but even be praised as a classic. And the murder produced by "revenge" is usually a more lenient judgment by the law.
Simply put, The Japanese vendetta is "revenge by killing the other person with your own hands."
Around the time of the Kamakura period, there were countless feuds in Japan. The most famous "three major vendetta incidents" are the "Former My Brother Vendetta" in the early Kamakura period, the "Iga Yue Feud" in the early Edo period, and the most classic "Loyal Servant Ako Incident". The last official vendetta was the 1917 Usui Rokuro Incident, which occurred only a hundred years ago.
The picture on the left is the scene of Zhongchen Xue; the picture on the right is my brother Zeng.
Taking a look at the Japanese vendetta incident, there are the following characteristics:
First, most of the objects of revenge for being killed are bloodline elders. Parents avenging their children or grandchildren are mostly not considered revenge.
2. If there is a grudge and there is no revenge, if it is a martial family blood, it will not be able to inherit the family property when it is serious.
Third, revenge can find someone to help, but killing the other party must definitely do it yourself.
4. It is forbidden to repeat revenge. That is, it is not possible to retaliate against those who succeed in revenge.
5. Affirm the honor of revenge. But revenge will still be punished as it deserves.
Seeing this, friends who originally thought that "Japan was really good in ancient times, you can legitimately retaliate with tit-for-tat" should know that revenge is not only the pleasure of revenge. Revenge will not only make your knife-wielding hand feel the twitching of the other person before death, but also accept the punishment of murder. Society, and even the government, will applaud and affirm your actions – so you may receive an indoor belly-cutting sentence with the highest honor of a samurai.
Don't think that in the shogunate era when the country was founded by force, it was only natural to avenge your relatives, and it was okay to kill people. All those who initiate revenge act on the premise of the serious consequences of success. Therefore, one of the three major enmities was killed on the spot, and one was beheaded. The two protagonists of Iga's revenge, after a nearly terrifying and bloody armed struggle, slashed their enemies, but they also died shortly after. And the earth-shattering loyal subjects, the forty-seven soldiers, were ordered by the shogunate to cut off their abdomen after avenging the lord.47.
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My brother grew up with his mother after his father was killed by His father, Kudo Yukei. After the brothers became adults, Qiu Artificial Fuji had become a red man who was around the shogun Genrai Dynasty at that time. The two waited hard for the opportunity, and finally found the opportunity to kill Kudo Yukei and avenge their father's killing while the general was hunting one day. My brother Zeng Youcheng was killed by others at the scene of the fight, and my younger brother Zeng I was calmly arrested. After the general Genrai Chao understood the beginning and end of the matter, he originally wanted to pardon the vengeful filial son, but under the cry of Kudo's son, he ordered the execution of Zeng I Shizhi. This revenge process, which is regarded as a classic samurai vendetta, lasted 17 years and ended with the death of all the people involved.
Iga took revenge. Each side recruited martial arts masters and helpers, a total of more than a dozen people, and ended the feud in an extremely bloody death battle at the key house.
Iga's revenge was caused by the male sex incident. The boy Watanabe Gentao, the favorite of the lord of Okayama Domain, Washita Tadao, was killed after rejecting the courtship of his colleague Kawai Nagoro, and in a fit of rage, the lord ordered the prisoner Togoro to be captured alive or dead. The brother of the victim, Watanabe Shuma, was also under pressure from the lord under this special relationship, and was semi-forced to accept the rare order to avenge the younger generation. The fleeing Goro escaped from okayama domain and hid in Edo, accepting cover from The Tokugawa shogun's subordinate Kimoto samurai. In the end, the two sides each found martial arts masters and helpers, a total of more than a dozen people, and ended the feud in an extremely bloody death battle at the keyhouse. Also because the two parties were actually not very skilled in swordplay, from the beginning to the time when the victory and defeat were hacked to death, the two fought for more than five hours. And this storm of hatred took more than four years from the time it occurred to the time it was resolved.
The revenge of the forty-seven warriors has evolved into part of traditional Japanese culture. This story of feud has been adapted into Seriri, Kabuki, and countless series and movies.
The reason for the incident was that the Edo period shogun was going to welcome the envoy of the Emperor of Kyoto, and Kira Uenosuke, who was in charge of the ceremony, continued to insult Asano Nagamasa, the lord of the Ako Domain, who had been appointed to host the ceremony. On the last day of his actions, Asano finally went crazy and killed Kira in the shogun castle where "three inches of carp" (drawing a sword of about 10 centimeters) would "cut his own abdomen and cut off the imperial family". Of course, the important ceremony turned into a bloody fight, which naturally made the shogun furious, so Asano Nagamasa was ordered to cut his abdomen on the same day; Asano's Ako was also disbanded by the shogunate, and more than 2,000 clan members and their families were immediately unemployed and displaced--this is the terrible "imperial family severance".
The story of Ōishi Uchi's revenge against the lord is the most widely circulated revenge story in all of Japan during the Edo period and today.
Two years later, Ryo Ishito, the boss of the Ako Clan who had been pretending to be idle and drunk, led a group of 47 courtiers into Kira Uenosuke's house, killed Kira, cut off his head to worship the old lord, and then turned himself in to await the shogunate's discretion. In the end, all participants were given a highly courteous abdominal punishment. However, the most tragic and controversial thing is that even if these 47 people were named "loyal subjects" by later generations due to the influence of opera, many Confucian scholars at that time evaluated them as "private grudges", "destroying the shogunate's legal system", and even "inheriting the evil aspirations of the dark lord". That is to say, after half a day of revenge, he also died, and finally fell into the notoriety of "illegal killing" and "promiscuity".
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Looking at the examples of Japan's past enmity, in fact, most of the time, "enmity" is not a momentary pleasure, but a matter of careful calculation and time-consuming and wealth. Even, sometimes for the sake of justice in your mind, you have become the "wicked" in the mouths of some people.
When a person lives to a certain age, he will experience that if someone tells you that there is simple, clear, and simple justice in the world, then that person is either simple-minded or ill-intentioned.
In the past, Japan's culture of revenge was actually a kind of compensatory justice for the deformity of the victims. But in fact, at that time, Japan was still an era of beheading, roasting and stabbing!
After successfully taking revenge and killing his enemy Kira Uenosuke, Ako Forty-Seven Waves and his party took Kira's head to the grave of the lord Asano Nagamasa to report.
The last feud in Japan occurred in the Meiji era. It took 12 years for the person concerned to successfully take revenge, and the target of the revenge was the murderer of the whole family of the person concerned in the late shogunate era, but he had become a judge of the court when he was retaliated against. Although the world sympathized with the filial son of Usui Rokuro at that time, he was finally sentenced to life imprisonment according to his status as a warrior. The reason for this is also very simple, only because Japan was already a country ruled by law at that time. Killing people to achieve justice should be a last-ditch and heavy means, not a tool that some people use to advocate for expressing their sense of cheap justice.
Behind the incident of the Zeng I brothers, there was actually a conspiracy to seize power between the shogun Genrai Dynasty and his wife's wife, the Hojo family; the Iga Etsuki vendetta incident implied the dispute and mutual hatred between the Edo Kimoto samurai at that time, and the Tashito Incident was a kind of struggle and a move for society to move from arbitrariness to civil rule, and even the Tokugawa family wanted to gradually weaken the power of the various clans.
If the justice you demand is so primitive, then you should have the determination to pay the price. If not, let's pray for the victims, work together for the future, and try to make the tragedy happen again.