Yubitsume ( ??? , "finger shortening") is a Japanese ritual to redeem for offense to another, a way to be punished or to show a genuine apology and remorse to others, by amputating the part of one's little finger. In modern times this is mainly done by yakuza, one of Japan's most prominent criminal organizations.
Action yubitsume is also called yubi o tobasu ( ????? ) , which means "fingers" ( "he made his finger fly").
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Origin
This ritual is thought to have originated from bakuto, a traveling gambler who was the forerunner of the modern yakuza. If a person is unable to pay the gambling debt, yubitsume is sometimes considered an alternative form of payment.
In Japanese swordsmanship or Kendo, the grip of the little finger is the most tight at the base. Thus, the amputated little fingers can not grip the sword properly, weaken it in battle and make it more dependent on the protection of his superior.
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Detail ritual
To do yubitsume , someone puts a small clean cloth and puts a hand on the fabric facing down. Using a very sharp knife or a tant?, People cut the little finger left over the top knuckle on your fingers or fingertips. The reason for choosing the left finger is that all East Asian cultures refuse to let left-handed. He then wraps the parts cut off in the cloth and handles the "package" very well to his oyabun ("godfather" or boss), also called the kumicho (gang leader).
If more violations are committed, the person moves to the next finger together to perform yubitsume . More offense could mean throwing parts of your right little finger when no more left fingers are left. In some cases someone removed from a yakuza gang may be required to perform a yubitsume ritual .
The finger of the yakuza who is directly responsible for an offense is called iki yubi , "the living finger", while the finger of the yakuza directly responsible for him is called shinu yubi , " dead finger ".
In popular culture
The yubitsume scene is a staple of the Japanese yakuza-eiga movie, or yakuza.
Yubitsume appeared in several Kinji Fukasaku films, including the Mobster Road and the Battle of the Honorable and the Humanity series.
American films in which the ritual appeared include the 1975 Sydney Pollack movie The Yakuza, starring Robert Mitchum, Ridley Scott's 1989 film Black Rain, starring Michael Douglas , and Martin 2018 The Zandvliet Movie The Outsider, starring Jared Leto.
Yubitsume is portrayed in a more humorous (if perhaps less than accurate) light in a skit on Saturday Night Live TV show. The drama features an American character, played by Chris Farley, who unknowingly goes to a game show while on holiday in Japan. Not speaking Japanese, the protagonist was horrified to see two other contestants who answered the wrong question having a finger cut off as a punishment.
Yubitsume takes place in four Takeshi Kitano movies: Boiling Point , Sister , Anger , and Beyond Outrage .
Yubitsume's ritual is also seen in the Showdown in Little Tokyo film starring Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee.
The Yubitsume ritual is featured in Shimotsuma Monogatari ( Kamikaze Girls in the United States), where the main character's father takes some of the money for his family. He then stated, "That's not it, that's my piano playing fingers!"
In the 2001 film Ichi the Killer, Kakihara's character cut off the tip of his tongue with a sword after the yakuza boss told him one finger alone would not be enough to repay for his crimes brutally torturing innocent members of his group. There is a similar scene in the Korean movie, Oldboy .
Lady Vengeance , a 2005 Korean film, featuring a scene where the female protagonist cut off her little finger in front of the parents of a young girl she was involved in a kidnapping in an attempt to seek forgiveness. He declares that he has committed an unpardonable sin and will keep cutting his fingers until they forgive him. Her parents were startled and immediately took her to the hospital after she separated her little finger on their dining table.
In the manga Horror oneshot Tuan. Class Rowdy Sarubato by Waita Uziga, students are forced by their mentally unstable sensei Sarubato to have one of their limbs separated by him as punishment for inappropriate behavior in the class. As a result, many students in his class lose limbs or other body parts depending on the seriousness of the offense.
In the 2006 film Dirty Sanchez: The Movie, Matthew Pritchard has the tip of his little finger in his right hand cut in Japan with a cigar cutter.
In the 2006 film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the yakuza member who started the last race proved to lose four fingers (a ring and a little finger in each hand).
Michael Slade's novel Kamikaze has many examples of yubitsume as punishment for failing the kumicho (Godfather) of the local yakuza.
Short story Roald Dahl Man from the South (1948) describes a betting game where a man moves his little little finger.
William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer contains a passing reference to Yubitsume.
In the 1990 film Darkman, boss of the underworld Robert G. Durant used a cigar cutter to remove the fingers of his rivals. In the opening scene, whenever he makes points for the competitor's mafia, he cuts a finger. When he has to appoint three, he says that he has seven more points to make, before cutting off his third finger.
In an episode of Archer , "Drift Problem," Pam refers to members of the yakuza as "pinky-less bastard." In the three-season episode of 5, "Archer's Deputy: A Debt Of Honor", Pam bought amphetamines from Yakuza, which Cyril fearfully exclaimed, "Oh God, they cut their own fingers"
In the 2010 film Predators , one of his characters is Hanzo, a yakuza killer who does not talk much throughout the movie, and when asked why, he answers, "Because I talk too much" and shows that he lost the ring and little fingers of his left hand, revealing he had done yubitsume.
In Battletech's Lethal Heritage novel, Shin Yodama's yakuza status is questionable because "he still has all his fingers". Other characters show this means he is very good at his job.
In Season 5, Episode 2 ("Bloodlines") of the TV show Burning Notice , the character suspects that a Japanese man is a member of the yakuza due to missing fingers. He later revealed that he was indeed a member and lost his finger for falling asleep on guard duty.
In Season 8, Episode 13 ("Die By the Sword") of the TV show CSI: Miami yubitsume action is briefly depicted by Japanese gang members with some finger-losing members.
In Season 3, Episode 12 ("Silverfinger") from TV show Teen Wolf (2011 TV Series), Takashi, a closed weapon collector and a Yakuza member has cut off his little finger as a penance for being a coward when he is attacked by Oni In season 3 of episode 3 of the Starz Power series, a character named Dylan Shin, a member of a Korean gang, was forced to do yubitsume after it was revealed that he stepped on and diluted some gang crack.
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