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辻斬り辻斬辻切り [sK]
つじぎり
1. [n,vs,vt] [hist]
▶ attacking a passerby with a sword (to test its sharpness or one's skill)
▶ samurai who tries out his sword on a passerby

Conjugations


History:
8. A 2023-04-30 10:04:51  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
7. A* 2023-04-29 23:53:53  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
〈辻/つじ/ツジ〉〈斬(り)/切(り)/ぎり/ギリ〉

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 辻斬り  │ 30,433 │ 84.8% │
│ 辻斬   │  1,769 │  4.9% │
│ 辻切り  │  1,340 │  3.7% │ - add, sK (sankoku)
│ 辻切   │    144 │  0.4% │
│ つじ切り │    102 │  0.3% │
│ 辻ぎり  │     57 │  0.2% │
│ つじぎり │  1,951 │  5.4% │
│ ツジギリ │     91 │  0.3% │
╰─ーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -8,0 +9,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>辻切り</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
6. A 2023-04-29 23:40:43  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -18 +18 @@
-<gloss>attacking a passerby with a sword (to tests its sharpness or one's skill)</gloss>
+<gloss>attacking a passerby with a sword (to test its sharpness or one's skill)</gloss>
5. A 2023-04-29 20:49:14  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
gg5, daij
  Comments:
We usually include the "その人" meaning in the same sense if there are only a couple of glosses.
The passive usage indicates that it's transitive.
  Diff:
@@ -16 +16 @@
-<pos>&vi;</pos>
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
@@ -18,6 +18,2 @@
-<gloss>killing a passerby in order to test a new sword</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<misc>&hist;</misc>
-<gloss>one who has tested a new sword by killing a passerby</gloss>
+<gloss>attacking a passerby with a sword (to tests its sharpness or one's skill)</gloss>
+<gloss>samurai who tries out his sword on a passerby</gloss>
4. A* 2023-04-28 16:27:58  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijs:
昔、武士が刀剣の切れ味や自分の腕を試すために、往来で通行人を斬ったこと。また、それを行う者。特に江戸初期には禁令が出るほど横行した。

辻斬り	30433	  
辻斬りの	2967	  
辻斬りに	1880	  
辻斬りを	1618	  
辻斬りされた	891
  Comments:
English wikipedia, daijs, and sankoku (amazing...) all give sense [2] explicitly.  Must be a bit of romanticized imagery to have such a high ngram count... (the action itself doesn't seem to have actually been so prevalent).

sankoku says 自さ, common n-grams suru usage is passive. I guess 辻斬り is just the act of testing the sword, and doesn't actually take an object.
  Diff:
@@ -14,0 +15,2 @@
+<pos>&vs;</pos>
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
@@ -16,0 +19,5 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<misc>&hist;</misc>
+<gloss>one who has tested a new sword by killing a passerby</gloss>
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