Slaughter - Abandonment

Japanese: 斬罪 - ざんざい

(1) A type of punishment in the Kamakura period. It was also called dansai or hanpisei, and was a punishment by decapitation. The punishment was carried out at Rokujo-gawara in Kyoto and at Tatsuno-kuchi in Kamakura. (2) A type of punishment imposed on samurai in the Edo period. It was executed by beheading, as with the death penalty and criminal punishment. The Kojikata Osadamegaki states that the execution was carried out by a magistrate's constable at Kozukahara (Senju) or Suzugamori (Shinagawa), and that the inspectors were the okatometsuke and machiyoriki. The fields, houses, and belongings of the prisoner were confiscated, but the corpse was not executed by tameshigiri. (3) In the Kakeiritsu, a criminal code from the early Meiji period, the name of the punishment, originally named funshu, was changed to hanpisei in August 1869 (Meiji 2). The execution method was beheading. In the New Law Code of the following year, it was changed to simply "zan" (killing), and was abolished on January 1, 1882, with the enforcement of the old Criminal Code.

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Japanese:

(1) 鎌倉時代の刑罰の一つ。断罪，刎刑などともいい，斬首刑のこと。刑の執行は，京都では六条河原，鎌倉では竜ノ口において行われた。 (2) 江戸時代，武士に科せられた刑罰の一つ。死罪や下手人と同じく打首 (斬首) のこと。『公事方御定書』には，小塚原 (千住) ，鈴ヶ森 (品川) のいずれかにおいて，町奉行組同心が刑の執行にあたり，検使は御徒目付と町与力がつとめるとある。受刑者の田畑，家屋敷，家財は闕所となるが，その屍体を様斬 (ためしぎり) にすることはない。 (3) 明治初頭の刑法典である『仮刑律』では当初刎首 (ふんしゅ) と命名されていた刑名を明治2 (1869) 年8月斬罪と改めた。執行方法は斬首。翌3年の新律綱領では単に斬となり，1882年1月1日，旧刑法の施行により廃止。

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