Seppuku the offender's family of the crime. Depending on the severity of the crime, all or part of the property of the condemned could be confiscated, and the family would be punished by being stripped of rank, sold into long-term servitude, or execution. Seppuku was considered the most honorable capital punishment apportioned to Samurai. Zanshu (斬首) and Sarashikubi (晒し首), decapitation followed by a display of the head, was considered harsher, and reserved for samurai who committed greater crimes. The harshest punishments, usually involving death by torturous methods like Kamayude (釜茹で), death by boiling, were reserved for commoner offenders. The first recorded
Samurai Warriors 3 Samurai Warriors 3 Shigeru Miyamoto from Nintendo attended the game's Press Conference on August 5, 2009, to present a new mode in the game based on the Famicom Disk System game "The Mysterious Murasame Castle". Nintendo published and distributed the game outside Japan for the Wii. A sequel, "Samurai Warriors 4", was announced at a SCEJ press conference in September 2013. Like other games in the series, the game reinvents the story based on the Sengoku period of Japan, a period where Japan was ruled by powerful "daimyōs" and where constant military conflict and much political intrigue happened that lasted