Assertion: samurai's sword | /r/HasProperty | tantō
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text: On occasion, if the sentenced individuals were uncooperative or outright refused to end their own lives, it was not unheard of anywhere in Japan for them to be restrained and the seppuku carried out by an executioner, or more often, for the actual execution to be carried out solely by decapitation while retaining only the trappings of seppuku; even the short sword (tantō) laid out in front of the uncooperative offender could be replaced with a fan (to prevent the uncooperative offenders from taking and using the tantō as a weapon against the observers or the executioner).