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tanuki-kimono · 8 months

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Irezumi kei (tattoo penalty) as depicted in the [徳鄰厳秘録 - Tokuringenbiroku], a kind of penalty instruction book compiled in 1814, digitalized by the National Archives of Japan.

CW for this post about Edo period judiciary => mentions of physical punishment, torture, death penalty (text only, no details, no graphic illustrations) . The irezumikei pages above are p.19 to 25.

I won't reproduced the illustrations here, but the Tokuringenbiroku book also presents other Edo period "punishments" and death penalties, like different types of goumon (torture), gokumon (decapitation and exposure of the head to public view), kakei (stake), haritsuke (crucifixion), or tameshigiri (sword cut testing, here on executed convict corpse). Please proceed to the full book according to your sensibilities!

Back to irezumi kei : the markings of character Akaza (from Kimetsu no Yaiba/Demon's Slayer) are directly inspired by those, same for Mugen in Samurai Champloo for example:

After Tokugawa Yoshimune's reforms abolished bloodier punishments (nose or ear cutting) for lesser crimes (like theft, gambling or fraud), irezumikei spread, inspired by Chinese bokkei practices.

Yet, zainin (lawbreakers) were also often beaten or whipped (tataki), which could be a "light" sentence or more far extreme one. Women tended to be imprisoned instead.

Punishment tattoos also often went alongside tokorobarai (banishment), which had several levels depending on the crime. You could be banished to a remote island, just away from your city, or forbidden to enter a certain perimeter.

Exile is why different areas had different marks, placed on the arms or faces, easily identifying the person as a criminal convicted in another region.

Number of lines or dots were often used to symbolize repeated offences (pic below source). Most of the times, getting 3+ irezumikei could grant you death penalty.

Irezumikei maybe be why criminals came to use extravagant tattoos, as to cover their infamous marks, leading to the yakuza association with body ink.

Yet, other strata of population also favored figurative tattoos, so the link between criminals and tattoing in Edo period is not self-evident.

Some shapes of -sode (sleeve part of a tattoo) for example left arm interior bare, maybe to prove then that no armband tattoo was hidden underneath a bigger design.

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digi-lov · 1 year

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Reapermon EX2-037 by GOSSAN from EX-02 Theme Booster Digital Hazard

Gallantmon ST7-09 Alternative Art by Ishibashi Yosuke from the Memorial Collection 02 [J] / PB-08 Tamers Playmat [E]

This card of Reapermon/Gokumon from EX2 and this Alternative Art of Gallantmon/Dukemon from ST7 are both referencing the Boss arena of Reapermon from Digimon Tamers: Battle Evolution (Digimon Rumble Arena)

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lopmonappreciation · 11 months

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Cookie run Digimon au:

Black licorice cookie and phantomon

Fresh:kuramon

In training: tsumemon

Rookie: demidevimon

Champion: bakemon

Ultimate: phantomon

Mega: reapermon

#black licorice cookie #digimon #digisafe #digimon au #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #cookie run ovenbreak #cookie run au #kuramon #tsumemon #demidevimon #bakemon #phantomon #reapermon #gokumon

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nine-frames · 8 months

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"There's a story behind this dreadful name."

獄門島 (Gokumon-to / Hell's Gate Island), 1977.

Dir. Kon Ichikawa | Writ. Kon Ichikawa & Shin'ya Hidaka | DOP Kiyoshi Hasegawa

#獄門島 #Gokumon-to #hell's gate island #kosuke kindaichi #kindaichi kosuke #kon ichikawa #japanese film #detective film #crime drama #murder mystery #1970s #10 frames

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chiisanahoshi · 1 year

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[Gokushufudou | Opening Theme] "Shufu no Michi (シュフノミチ)" by Uchikubi Gokumon Doukoukai (打首獄門同好会)

#gokushufudou #the way of the house husband #gokushufudo: the way of the house husband #uchikubi gokumon doukoukai #official video #opening theme

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anne-bsd-bibliophile · 3 months

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A classic.

#Uchikubi Gokumon Doukoukai #I don' t wanna get out of futon #Youtube

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prommytheus · 7 months

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IM SO HAPPY TODAY OMG I DONT HAVE LIKE ANYTHING TO DO I CAN JUST LOOK AT WIKIPEDIA AND DRAW

#i left death on gokumon island at home :/ but its alright i dont like reading not in my bed anyway

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very-grownup · 10 months

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Book 46, 2023

I'm sorry to inform everyone, but "Death on Gokumon Island" by Seishi Yokomizo is NOT about a cool summer fun island like in a Beach Boys' song. The book doesn't even take place during summer!

There is, however, definitely death, with evocatively described crime scenes and an undercurrent of cabin fever isolation on the titular island, amplified by the war having recently ended. Kindaichi as a character feels a bit different when viewed as a recent survivor of frontline combat in a losing war, although in terms of mannerisms he hasn't changed much.

It does seem like Yokomizo is using the real life being put on pause by years of war as an explanation for why characters, especially returning ones, are still in the same place they were previously, which feels like a nice bit of explanation for the changelessness of the characters in this type of detective fiction.

#2023 books #mystery novels #kosuke kindaichi #death on gokumon island #seishi yokomizo

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j-august · 1 year

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If you stood up on the wall, you had an unbroken view over the sea to the east, the dark shadows of islands dotted here and here in the moonlit water. The little fires lit to lure the fish flickered dreamily in the hazy night mist.

Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island

#quote #quotation #Seishi Yokomizo #Death on Gokumon Island #wall #sea #island #shadows #moonlight #water #fires #fish #flicker #night

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nana2capriccio · 11 months

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[Kiryu - Goku Mon - English Translation]

己龍 - 獄門 [Hell's Gates]

JP lyrics: Mahiro Kurosaki | EN translation: me:3

pic unrelated lol. i have all of shuka ensen translated that i did for fun a while ago...so you will see those rolling out soon!

Notes: this song is a lot of nonsense which i think is the point...buuut it's japanese nonsense that makes NO sense in english. sorry in advance but there will be a lot of notes at the end, some of the history came from my head so it may be incorrect but for other things i researched to hell for this😭

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Flowers blooming, falling into delusion, under the Yayoi sky... 1

Red and radiant, a kaleidoscope of flowing blood

Crying, once, no consent, twice 2

Roll the dice, round of applause, next!

雁首　once 影踏　twice [this line is untranslatable, see note 3]

We could go on hundreds more...

Flowers blooming, falling into delusion, a cloudy haze...

Twisting, climbing, falling like a wilting flower 4

Crying, once, no consent, twice 2

Roll the dice, round of applause, shogi piece

Wailing, once, sadistic, twice

A smile of both pity and scorn

Crying, once, no consent, twice 2

Roll the dice, round of applause, deviance

Noh mask, once, pull it off, twice 5

Heart of raging fire 6 (notes EXTRA IMPORTANT!!!)

Bow in prayer

Crying, once, no consent, twice

Roll the dice, round of applause, impurity

To the neck, once, to the wrists, twice

Fresh flowers and death makeup 7

Crying, once, no consent, twice

Roll the dice, round of applause, sin

No mercy, no forgiveness, the feast is in full swing

The demons have been freed 8

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Notes:

1: this sentence is way too japanese i just. can't. ok so the words 咲く乱 (flowers blooming riotously) and 錯乱 (mental illness/derangement) sound the same and that's the pun, then the Yayoi thing...i think is also a pun?? the kanji 弥生 can refer to either the month of May on the lunar calendar or the Yayoi period which was from 300 B.C to 300 A.D., i doubt its the latter bc there wouldnt be people playing shogi back then but idfk

2: "no consent" is...the best i could do bc the term used isnt a word?? kiryu likes to make shit up but. i interpreted it based on context to mean this is a sxxual scenario w/o consent UMMM can i say that on tumblr.

3: 雁首 literally means goose's neck but it generally refers to anything shaped like that, which could be... the neck of a pipe (like that stereotypical chinese opium pipe), or....umm....penis! IT MEANS penis. 影踏 is a childrens' game where you walk in a circle trying to stand in eachother's shadows

4: another JAPANESE ASS LINE!!! this uses an idiom meaning to fall into pieces like petals falling off the centre of a flower...but thats too long to put in my lyric!!

5: i did some research aaand i think this is referring to a literary phrase similar to "taking off the monster's mask", like pulling off someone's figurative "mask" to reveal their true character. a Noh mask is just a type of mask used in Japanese Noh theatre which is like...ả premodern comedy musical type thing

6: AAAHH A PUN!!! this has me so confused but i think its mixing the phrases for "heartache" and a term used for the body of a woman who died in a suicide pact where her lover betrayed her by not following through. which is an oddly specific term but thats what my research said guys im trying

7: in Japan the dead have historically always been given a fresh face of makeup to make them look alive for the open casket funeral ceremony, the word used is just "death makeup"

8: the "feast" along w this line are talking about hyakki yakkou, a mythical concept similar to pandemonium where all of the youkai and demons escape jigoku (buddhist hell) and wreak havoc through the streets of Japan. this song is about that bc its called...its called hells gates

#kiryu #己龍 #visual kei #vkei #kiryu band #nana's translations #kiryu gokumon #shuka ensen

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michaelise · 3 months

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打首獄門同好会 (Uchikubi Gokumon Doukoukai) - I don' t wanna get out of futon

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#youtube #japanese #music #music video #uchikubi gokumon doukoukai #sorry im getting lazy with tags

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four-white-trees · 3 months

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any other Yokomizo fans out there

#kindaichi kosuke #seishi yokomizo #theres a tag so maybe?#anyway i may start the inugami clan today #or reread gokumon-to #need my wacky detective guy rn

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punchslug · 1 year

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Got yelled at by a pal because of the new digital monster color stuff so i thought i'd give me take on the reveals as small as they may be

HOLY SHIT VERSION 5 GOT SOMETHING YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

REALLY weird choices for ultimates though. well, not mugendramon but i'll talk about that in a second

but raidenmon for nanomon is fun and something i didn't expect. speaking of unexpected

out of every possible ultimate you choose for ex-tyranomon

????

like, really?? of all things??

to prove my point, here's a small compilation of ultimate level digimon that would fit ex-tyranomon more:

and lastly

ex-tyrano aside, i want to take a moment to talk about mugendramon

was a little confused about mugendramon being the ultimate for metaltyrano when he has a proper, canon evolution now.

and then it hit me like a speeding bullet .

CHIMAIRAMON V-PET SPRITE YEEAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

theory is also supported by the fact that the guy on the right is ABSOLUTELY not chaosdramon. cannons are shaped super weird. and digital monster color sprites adore their overlapping elements

art is my passion couldn't you tell ?