A kaishakunin (Japanese: 介錯人) is a person appointed to behead an individual who has performed seppuku, Japanese ritual suicide, at the moment of agony...

such as with the seppuku of Minamoto no Yorimasa, the practice of a kaishakunin had not yet emerged; thus, the rite was considered far more painful....

Koga Hiroyasu, born 15 August 1947) is a former Tatenokai member and kaishakunin responsible for the decapitations of Yukio Mishima and Masakatsu Morita...

samurai slices into their stomach with a sword, their assistant, the kaishakunin, is tasked with immediately carrying out a mercy kill - typically by...

against deserters. As a result, he committed seppuku with Okita as his kaishakunin on March 20 (lunar calendar February 23), 1865. There are several speculations...

knelt and stabbed himself in the abdomen and Koga again performed the kaishakunin duty. Masayoshi Koga, Masahiro Ogawa, and Hiroyasu Koga, who were tried...

Beppu Shinsuke downhill to find a place to commit seppuku. Serving as kaishakunin, Beppu cut off Saigō's head and hid it to prevent it from being found...

Matsudaira Nobuyasu was forced to commit suicide (seppuku), his beheader (kaishakunin) Amagata Michitsuna used a Muramasa. In spite of these unfortunate incidents...

deserters. As a result, he committed seppuku with Okita Sōji as his Kaishakunin on March 20 (lunar calendar February 23), 1865; and Hijikata took over...

unspecified year of the Edo period, Ogami Ittō, the disgraced former Kogi Kaishakunin (executioner) to the shōgun, wanders the countryside, pushing a baby...

Stiles (comparing the young Alpha and his best friend respectively to a kaishakunin and a samurai) in a Seppuku ritual. When Stiles feels he has no other...

pilots and their families.[citation needed] Accordingly, he did not use a kaishakunin, the usual second who executes by beheading, and so died of self-inflicted...

warrior and a master of the suiō-ryū swordsmanship, serves as the Kogi Kaishakunin (the Shōgun's executioner), a position of high power in the Tokugawa...

consisting of Hitoshi Ota and Terumasa Shichinohe. The name comes from Kaishakunin (介錯人), an appointed second person whose duty it is to decapitate one...

should, by killing himself. Ōishi indicated he personally would act as a kaishakunin ("second", the one who beheads a person committing seppuku to spare them...

people Kogi Korean BBQ, a truck-based restaurant in Los Angeles. Kogi Kaishakunin, the name for the position of the shōgun's executioner, in feudal Japan...

samurai is performing seppuku. The executioner, who turns out to be a kaishakunin, beheads the samurai, but then laughs at the ridiculous expression that...

wounded. Legend says that one of his followers, Beppu Shinsuke, acted as kaishakunin and aided Saigō in committing seppuku before he could be captured. However...

the samurai. Morita had been assigned to serve as Mishima's second (kaishakunin), cutting off his head with a sword at the end of the rite to spare him...

skin and distrust for his foreign origin. After serving as Nobunaga's kaishakunin following his defeat at Honnō-ji Temple, he escaped his bondage under...

Daigoro. Ogami Ittō, the disgraced former shōgun's executioner or Kogi Kaishakunin, is traveling by river on a boat with his young son Daigoro floating...

to commit suicide. He traveled to the General's house, and acted as kaishakunin, second, in his brother-in-law's act of seppuku. Unlike several of his...

Japanese baseball player Hiroyasu Koga (古賀 浩靖, born 1947), Yukio Mishima's kaishakunin Issaku Koga (古賀 逸策, 1899-1982), often written as Issac Koga, Japanese...

doctor, tried for murder in 1957 but claimed euthanasia. Acquitted. Kaishakunin – Assists in the Japanese ritual seppuku (suicide) Karen Ann Quinlan...

was created neither for dueling nor for self-defense, but to serve as kaishakunin. According to his own memoirs, Nakayama Hakudō invented the twelfth kata...

family. Ogami Ittō, the disgraced former shōgun's executioner, or Kogi Kaishakunin, is hired to kill Oyuki. He tracks down the tattoo artist, who explains...

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son, Daigoro. Ogami Ittō, the disgraced former executioner, (the Kogi Kaishakunin to the Shōgun), is now living off the land with his three-year-old son...

overlooking the castle, in preparation for seppuku. So that the 26-year-old kaishakunin Tashiro Gitarō (田代 儀太郎) would not be left to die alone, Kagami waited...

incident, and was forced to perform seppuku with Sagawa Yoshisuke as his kaishakunin. Yoshisuke recounted the circumstances of Daini's seppuku in his diary...