Japan’s Agriculture Minister on Wednesday submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, just four days after he bragged in a speech that he never had to buy any rice because, as a former eight-term elected MP with supposed hardcore following, his fans send him so much of the country’s staple food, which was pretty tone deaf amid increasing costs, the Japan Times reports.

“I have never bought rice. My supporters give me so much rice that, in the food pantry of my house, I have enough to sell it,” said the now former Ag Minister Taku Eto, who got off easy by just getting fired. You know back in the old days he would’ve had to get on his knees and slice open his bowels with a tanto blade and then Ishiba would “second” Eto by swiftly decapitating him with a katana, his head sent rolling on the pavement of the castle’s ornate courtyard. It would’ve been the only way to spiritually atone for the shame and dishonor he brought upon his master’s house and his ancestors.

But then again if this were the old days there was no democracy and Ishiba probably wouldn’t have cared if Eto had so mocked commoners. It would take something like Eto getting drunk on sake and insulting a neighboring lord during Ishiba’s daughter’s wedding feast, maybe by saying that lord had prayed insufficiently to the harvest spirits resulting in a lower rice yield. He’d be so screwed then.

In conclusion feudal Japan was pretty fucking badass because shit like that happened all the time.