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"Easy Peasy Japanese" said Minamoto Tametomo and performed seppuku ... "
Minamoto Yorimasa

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What is the Meaning of “Easy Peasy Japanesey”?

The expression “easy peasy Japanesey” is a cutesy way of saying something is easy. The rhyme seems to have originated in England in the 1980s. However, many people today may consider this phrase racist in origin. An alternative, safer, version with the same meaning is “easy peasy lemon squeezy.”

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Seppuku (lit.;'cutting [the] belly'), also called harakiri , lit.;'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour, but was also practised by other Japanese people during the Sh;wa era (particularly officers near the end of World War II) to restore honour for themselves or for their families.]

As a samurai practice, seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honour rather than fall into the hands of their enemies (and likely be tortured), as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offences, or performed because they had brought shame to themselves. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tant;, into the belly and drawing the blade from left to right, slicing the belly open.[citation needed] If the cut is deep enough, it can sever the abdominal aorta, causing death by rapid exsanguination.

Seppuku occurred in 1177 by Minamoto Tametomo. Minamoto fought in the H;gen war; after being defeated, he was exiled to ;shima, later deciding to try to take over the island. Due to this, Minamoto's enemies sent troops to suppress his rebellion. As he was on the losing end, he committed seppuku in 1177. The ritual of seppuku was more concretely established when, in the early years of the Genpei war, Minamoto Yorimasa committed seppuku after composing a poem.

Seppuku was used by warriors to avoid falling into enemy hands and to attenuate shame and avoid possible torture. Samurai could also be ordered by their daimy; (feudal lords) to carry out seppuku. Later, disgraced warriors were sometimes allowed to carry out seppuku rather than be executed in the normal manner. needed] The most common form of seppuku for men was composed of cutting open the abdomen, followed by extending the neck for an assistant to sever the spinal cord. It was the assistant's job to decapitate the samurai in one swing; otherwise, it would bring great shame to the assistant and his family. Those who did not belong to the samurai caste were never ordered or expected to carry out seppuku. Samurai could generally carry out the act only with permission.

Sometimes a daimy; was called upon to perform seppuku as the basis of a peace agreement. This weakened the defeated clan so that resistance effectively ceased. Toyotomi Hideyoshi used an enemy's suicide in this way on several occasions, the most dramatic of which effectively ended a dynasty of daimy;s. When the H;j; clan were defeated at Odawara in 1590, Hideyoshi insisted on the suicide of the retired daimy; H;j; Ujimasa and the exile of his son Ujinao. With this act of suicide, the most powerful daimy; family in eastern Japan was completely defeated.

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Das ist (doch) keine Kunst!
Bedeutung:
Das ist (doch) ganz einfach ! Das kann jeder !

Herkunft:
umgangssprachlich; "Kunst" bezieht sich hier auf die Bedeutung "Fertigkeit, Geschick, K;nnen". Die Redewendung ist daher nicht zu verwechseln mit Aussagen, die sich auf Kunstwerke beziehen.

Die Redensart leitet sich wohl von den Kunstst;cken der Zauberer und Akrobaten ab, die nur wenige beherrschen und schwer zu erlernen sind .

Sie ist schon 1541 in der Sprichw;rtersammlung von Sebastian Franck aufgef;hrt: "Es ist kein kunst ein ding tadeln / nachthun thets wer es k;nne" . Und Adelung erkl;rt sie in seinem W;rterbuch (1811) so: "Das ist keine Kunst, dazu geh;ret keine Fertigkeit, das kann ein jeder" .

Einen literarischen Beleg finden wir bei Wieland (1764): "Es ist keine Kunst zufrieden zu sein, wenn euch alles nach Wunsch und Willen geht".