ししゅう [shishū]
1. Poetry anthology 詩集
2. Embroidery 刺繍
3. Putrid smell of a corpse 死臭
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I can help with a few of those. Going back to the Heian period, when warfare was thought of as a series of duels between individuals, the victor would decapitate the loser to prove that he had triumphed and present the head to his lord as a show of valor.
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The practice continued through the Sengoku period, although as the scale of warfare increased it was no longer practical to display each head individually, so they were mounded up before the lord.
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Wait, is there actually a kanji for "severed head"
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It's like that one episode of Samurai Champloo where they have to deliver a head to the police, and think at one point that's just how they organized bodies, the body itself wasn't important but the head was what you needed for identification.
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