Gokou Zan

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

Description
Genjuro slashes his opponent upwards, then jumps after them to slash them 5 times in the air, the last one dropping them to the ground. Each slash unveils a hanafuda (flower card) image being sliced per slash.

The main difference between this version and the Bust/Rasetsu variation is that Genjuro only slashes extra upon reaching his jump's peak, while the latter has him rise in the air slowly per slash. Both versions also have different hanafuda images per each slash.

Later games either have the Ura version replace it (SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos), or have both versions co-exist in the same moveset (Neo Geo Battle Coliseum and Samurai Shodown (2019)).

Similar Attacks

 * Ura Gokou - A modified version of this attack, first exclusive to Bust/Rasetsu-mode Genjuro.

Trivia

 * Gokou ("Five Lights"), is a winning hand in a hanafuda game - a hand containing all 5 "light/bright" cards.