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    Seppuku (切腹, lit. 'cutting [the] belly'), also called harakiri (腹切り, lit. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese...
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  • Harakiri (切腹, Seppuku) is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The story takes place between 1619 and 1630 during the Edo period...
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    Kaishakunin (redirect from Second (seppuku))
    (Japanese: 介錯人) is a person appointed to behead an individual who has performed seppuku, Japanese ritual suicide, at the moment of agony. The role played by the...
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    Seppuku Paradigm is a French electronica/film music/rock duo. They are currently based in Paris, France. Their name was inspired by the self given death...
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  • Taxi Girl (redirect from Seppuku (album))
    between 1978 and 1986, producing 5 mini-albums, and one full-length album, Seppuku. Their early success is attributed to two singles, "Mannequin" in 1979...
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    Forty-seven rōnin (category Suicides by seppuku)
    after their daimyō (feudal lord) Asano Naganori was compelled to perform seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a powerful court official named Kira Yoshinaka...
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    Saigō Takamori (category Seppuku from Meiji period to present)
    The accounts of his subordinates claim that he stood up and committed seppuku after his injury or that he requested that his friend Beppu Shinsuke assist...
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  • Katsumoto's arrest for carrying a sword in public and tells him to perform seppuku the next day to redeem his honor. Meanwhile, Algren refuses Omura's offer...
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  • Masakatsu Morita (category Seppuku from Meiji period to present)
    November 1970) was a Japanese political activist who killed himself via seppuku with Yukio Mishima in Tokyo. Morita was the youngest child of the headmaster...
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  • for the decapitations of Yukio Mishima and Masakatsu Morita during their seppuku on November 25, 1970. He studied law at Kanagawa University and intended...
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    Ōishi Yoshio (category Suicides by seppuku)
    said to have had the implicit trust of his lord. When Asano committed seppuku as punishment for his failed attempt to kill Kira Yoshinaka in Edo castle...
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    Shoshinshu (the "Code of the Warrior"), a samurai was supposed to commit seppuku (also harakiri, "belly cutting", a form of ritual suicide) upon the loss...
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  • Tsugumo's clan has lost its status and he requests permission to perform seppuku in the courtyard of the castle of Lord Ii. Senior retainer Kageyu Saitō...
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  • sexual. He was regarded as a serial killer and was sentenced to death. Seppuku, the traditional Japanese method of ritual suicide, in many cases works...
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  • free dictionary. Harakiri (or hara-kiri) most often refers to a form of seppuku (or ritual suicide), often miswritten as "harikari". Harakiri may also...
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    sanctity of life. During the samurai era in Japan, a form of suicide known as seppuku (腹切り, harakiri) was respected as a means of making up for failure or as...
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    eliminated when Nobunaga conquered Odani Castle and Nagamasa committed seppuku in 1573. Azai Sukemasa – son of Azai Naotane, established Odani Castle...
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    The most common form of disembowelment was referred to in Japanese as seppuku (or, colloquially, hara-kiri), literally "stomach cutting," involving two...
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  • predecessor of the Taikō. He was forced to execute his family before committing seppuku and Mariko married Buntaro as atonement for his betrayal. Later that night...
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  • arrested for street murders. On the next day, he is sentenced to commit seppuku. Deducing that the magistrate is the culprit, Zoro attacks him and his...
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    Prayopavesa Prisoner suicide Rail Sallekhana Sati Self-sacrifice Senicide Seppuku Sokushinbutsu Suicide attack Vatakkiruttal Epidemiology Gender differences...
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    Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a samurai and tragic hero who was forced to commit seppuku in 1189. The Western world, never directly affected by Genghis, has viewed...
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  • attack the unarmed lord. Sentenced to death, Asano is compelled to perform seppuku to preserve his honor. The Shōgun gives Kira domain over Akō and Mika,...
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  • again failing to assassinate Blackthorne, try to force Toranaga to commit seppuku. Instead he resigns from the council and flees Osaka. Aided by Blackthorne’s...
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    Tokugawa Tadanaga (category Suicides by seppuku)
    insanity, stripped him of all possessions and offices, leaving him to commit seppuku. It is also said that Tadanaga's face was similar to that of his cousin...
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  • historian Ian McFarlane the acronym SPK is variously given as "SoliPsiK, SepPuKu, Surgical Penis Klinik, System Planning Korporation and Sozialistisches...
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    Minamoto no Tametomo (category Suicides by seppuku)
    himself by slicing his abdomen, or committing seppuku. He is quite possibly the first warrior to commit seppuku in the chronicles. During the Edo period,...
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  • considering a motion by Ishido to impeach him, which would also condemn him to seppuku. Toranaga is not scared of their threat, as he claims his sole purpose...
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    Prayopavesa Prisoner suicide Rail Sallekhana Sati Self-sacrifice Senicide Seppuku Sokushinbutsu Suicide attack Vatakkiruttal Epidemiology Gender differences...
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    Mayrhofen Ski Zillertal 3000. It is named after the Japanese vulgar term for seppuku, ritual suicide by samurai. With incline of up to 78%, vertical drop of...
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