Sensei and the Painter's Tape
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You would think this was a tree. It isn't. This is the angle of the cuts in the seitei waza So-giri. The bunkai could be either you striking one opponent multiple times, or many opponents. You cut the face down to the chin, from the right shoulder down to the solar plexus, then from the left shoulder down to the navel, and finally across the trunk between the hip and the waist - for the purpose of gutting the opponent. The final cut is a centre-line straight cut.
Each of those first three cuts must exit out of the body at the same angle they went in.
This is probably the most obviously difficult of the seitei waza, and is not one that beginners do. It would be considered grossly arrogant for anyone at a low rank to use this during grading. I plan on never using it at all, but at higher level gradings you don't get a choice as to the seitei waza you do, and they do trot this one out.