If meat is “back on the menu”, how long is said menu? Are uruk encampments expected to provide their troops multiple meal choices based on what captains provide the cooks with? Orcs like their meat blue, or at least partially raw, sooo…
I just know they’d make some mean blood soups and puddings. Rat-on-a-stick could also be common in fortresses due to rat abundance in such places (apparently this is already a delicacy enjoyed in parts of Africa).
Any other ideas for what might suit a Mordorian palate?
Irezumi kei (tattoo penalty) as depicted in the [徳鄰厳秘録 - Tokuringenbiroku], a kind of penalty instruction book compiled in 1814, digitalized by the National Archives of Japan.
CW for this post about Edo period judiciary => mentions of physical punishment, torture, death penalty (text only, no details, no graphic illustrations) . The irezumikei pages above are p.19 to 25.
I won't reproduced the illustrations here, but the Tokuringenbiroku book also presents other Edo period "punishments" and death penalties, like different types of goumon (torture), gokumon (decapitation and exposure of the head to public view), kakei (stake), haritsuke (crucifixion), or tameshigiri (sword cut testing, here on executed convict corpse).
Please proceed to the full book according to your sensibilities!
Back to irezumi kei : the markings of character Akaza (from Kimetsu no Yaiba/Demon's Slayer) are directly inspired by those, same for Mugen in Samurai Champloo for example:
After Tokugawa Yoshimune's reforms abolished bloodier punishments (nose or ear cutting) for lesser crimes (like theft, gambling or fraud), irezumikei spread, inspired by Chinese bokkei practices.
Yet, zainin (lawbreakers) were also often beaten or whipped (tataki), which could be a "light" sentence or more far extreme one. Women tended to be imprisoned instead.
Punishment tattoos also often went alongside tokorobarai (banishment), which had several levels depending on the crime. You could be banished to a remote island, just away from your city, or forbidden to enter a certain perimeter.
Exile is why different areas had different marks, placed on the arms or faces, easily identifying the person as a criminal convicted in another region.
Number of lines or dots were often used to symbolize repeated offences (pic below source). Most of the times, getting 3+ irezumikei could grant you death penalty.
Irezumikei maybe be why criminals came to use extravagant tattoos, as to cover their infamous marks, leading to the yakuza association with body ink.
Yet, other strata of population also favored figurative tattoos, so the link between criminals and tattoing in Edo period is not self-evident.
Some shapes of -sode (sleeve part of a tattoo) for example left arm interior bare, maybe to prove then that no armband tattoo was hidden underneath a bigger design.
Tataki salmon with sesame crust and ginger glaze seared salmon in a beautiful ginger glaze. It’ll simply melt in your mouth.
Preparation cooking serves:
Ingredients method
400g Huon salmon cut into two equal pieces ½ tsp salt flakes 2 tbsp toasted sesame seeds 1 tbsp black sesame seeds ½ tsp cracked black pepper 2 tbsp grapeseed oil 1 cup daikon cut into thin 10 cm strips
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