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Samurai Serial Killers and Mass Murderers

While warriors on the battlefield, some couldn't put the sword down. Here are some of the most infamous samurai killers in Japan's history.

Not to start any rumors about supposedly haunted locales around Tokyo, but it’s weird that 30 years before Sano Jirozaemon ran amok through Yoshiwara, another samurai murdered a whole bunch of people in roughly the same area, more or less corresponding to modern-day Nihonbashi. In the cold light of morning, as he was bringing the sleeping ronin something to eat, the monk noticed that Magara’s clothes and katana were stained with blood, blade and hilt and all. Gonpachi’s real life made for some exciting plays because not only was he a samurai who lost his status, he also fell in love with a prostitute named Komurasaki after arriving in Edo.

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