Ura Gokou

Ura Gokou ("Reverse Five Lights") is one of Genjuro Kibagami's Weapon-Flipping Techniques in the Samurai Shodown series, first appearing in Samurai Shodown III.

Description
Genjuro slashes his opponent upwards with an upper-spin-slash, then rises up per slash after his foe to finish them with a final one that drops them to the ground. Each slash unveils a hanafuda (flower card) image being sliced per slash. This move used to normally be exclusive to Bust/Rasetsu-mode Genjuro.

The main difference between this version and the original is that Genjuro rises upwards per slash, while the latter has him already at the peak when slashing at his victim. Both versions also have different hanafuda images per each slash.

This can often be apparent in that this is one of the few Bust/Rasetsu-version moves that is often put into Genjuro's base moveset:


 * In SVC Chaos, this is the only Gokou Zan variation that exists in his moveset.
 * In NGBC, this exists alongside Gokou Zan with the motion2QCF Input.png]] + [[File:Neo Geo A Button.gif or Neo Geo C Button.gif; Ura Gokou is performed with Neo Geo A Button.gif while Gokou Zan is performed with Neo Geo C Button.gif.
 * In SS7, it instead becomes a stronger version of Gokou Zan, while Gokou Zan itself is his primary Weapon-Flipping Technique.

Similar Attacks

 * Gokou Zan - The original version of this attack from Slash/Shura mode Genjuro.

Trivia

 * Gokou ("Five Lights"), is a winning hand in a hanafuda game - a hand containing all 5 "light/bright" cards.
 * This is one of the few Bust/Rasetsu moves put into Genjuro's base moveset in later games, which also occurs at times with some of Haohmaru's later movesets.