太刀たち取とり

noun

executioner; person in charge of beheading

Historical term for the person who beheads a samurai performing seppuku, or more broadly an executioner. Sense 1 is specific to seppuku; sense 2 is a broader executioner role.

• 切せっ腹ぷくの際さい、太刀たち取とりが介かい錯しゃくを務つとめた。

  At the time of seppuku, the executioner performed the beheading.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、太刀たち取とりは死し刑けい執しっ行こう人にんの役やく割わりも担になった。

  In the Edo period, the executioner also served as a death penalty enforcer.

noun

rikishi carrying a sword in yokozuna ring-entering ceremony

Sumo term: a wrestler who follows the yokozuna during the dohyo-iri, carrying a sword. Cross-referenced with 太刀持ち.

See also: 太刀持ち

• 横よこ綱づなの土ど俵ひょう入いりでは、太刀たち取とりが太刀たちを持もって後あとに続つづく。

  In the yokozuna's ring-entering ceremony, the sword-bearer follows behind carrying the sword.