人斬り

ひときり

assassination

百人百様

ひゃくにんひゃくよう

so many men, so many ways, to each one's own, it takes all sorts to make a world

百人力

ひゃくにんりき

tremendous strength

百人首

ひゃくにんしゅ

(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu

メッタ斬り

メッタぎり めったぎり

hacking to pieces

辻斬り

つじぎり

killing a passerby in order to test a new sword

斬

ざん

beheading, decapitation

百人一首

ひゃくにんいっしゅ ひゃくにんいちしゅ

100 poems by 100 famous poets, (playing) cards of one hundred famous poems

撫で斬り

なでぎり

clean sweep, killing several with one sword sweep

試し斬り

ためしぎり

trying out a new sword or blade (originally on someone, but now on soaked straw targets)

斬り合い

きりあい

crossing swords, fighting with swords, cutting each other (in fighting)

斬罪

ざんざい

(execution by) decapitation

斬首

ざんしゅ

decapitated head, decapitation

斬殺

ざんさつ

putting to the sword

斬る

きる

to kill (a human) using a blade (sword, machete, knife, etc.), to slice (off), to lop (off), to cut (off)

斬新

ざんしん

novel, original, newness

斬撃

ざんげき

slash, slashing attack

斬奸

ざんかん

killing a villain (with a sword, dagger, etc.)

斬りかかる

きりかかる

to assault with a sword, to stab at, to slash at