Talk:Ishida Mitsunari
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Just a quick query about the method of excecution as its not overly clear. It says a blunt wooden saw was used, now is this an error and should say a wood saw (a jack saw sort), or was an actual saw carved out of wood? That would be exceptionally blunt, but unlikely. I'm assuming it was the first option but several pages use the word wooden. Hellfire83 14:20, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm from Japan, and I suppose I know much more about Japanese samurais than people outside Japan. The execution by "wooden" saw is called "Nokogiri-Biki" (鋸引き). It goes this way: the sinner to be executed is buried in the ground to his neck; people who happen to pass by are handed a wooden saw, and told to try to cut the head of the sinner off. The execution may take a several days for the wooden saw is blunt. It's quite a brutal form of exection. However, I assure you that Mitsunari's execution was a normal decapitation. In Japan, there's absolutely no evidence for his death by "Nokogiri-Biki". I wonder where came this false description of his death. Leo777 05:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
