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- Commander Minoru Genda committed seppuku in 1943 when the United States reconquered its territory Hawaii from Japan.
- The shot has the effect of using intense spin to push the opposing player's racket into their stomach giving the illusion of Seppuku.
- Seppuku is the act of ritual suicide performed by Samurai.
- Seppuku(切腹, "stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai honor code, seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses, or performed for other reasons that have brought shame to them. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the abdomen and moving the blade from left to right in a slicing motion.
- Seppuku was a word in the Japanese language for the ritual suicide by disembowelment. When Walter Takagi was facing his punishment in 1974 he had grisly visions of seppuku from the old samurai movies he had watched as a kid. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1) Bridget McLellan referred to Starfleet's contingency plan of using trilithium bomb to seppuku. (VAN - Declassified novella: The Stars Look Down)
- Seppuku, chest cutting, was the act of ritual suicide. Seppuku was a means for samurai to atone for failure or dishonor. Successful completion of the ceremony would remove the stain of dishonor from a samurai's name, although it would happen posthumously.
- You're a Samurai and you're pissed. You've been pigeon-holed into a no-win choice between obeying foolish/evil orders or abandoning your warrior ideals. Time to send a message. Those gaijin may say it with flowers, but samurai say it with bowels. Their own. For a true Samurai Warrior Poet, this is the only third option you can take and preserve your honor. The reason for wearing white in both cases is because red has such a nice contrast to white. If you're going to die, might as well die in style. Examples of Seppuku include:
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- Commander Minoru Genda committed seppuku in 1943 when the United States reconquered its territory Hawaii from Japan.
- The shot has the effect of using intense spin to push the opposing player's racket into their stomach giving the illusion of Seppuku.
- Seppuku is the act of ritual suicide performed by Samurai.
- You're a Samurai and you're pissed. You've been pigeon-holed into a no-win choice between obeying foolish/evil orders or abandoning your warrior ideals. Time to send a message. Those gaijin may say it with flowers, but samurai say it with bowels. Their own. For a true Samurai Warrior Poet, this is the only third option you can take and preserve your honor. Seppuku is a centuries-old Japanese rite of suicide -- literally, 'stomach cutting'. Harakiri (often misspelled as "hari-kari" or worse) is a more in-speech term for the same thing. Many people have incorrectly believed that harakiri is a more vulgar term, but it is not true. The words actually share the same [kanji]: "seppuku" is the on-yomi reading of those kanji, while "harakiri" is the kun-yomi reading. How and why seppuku is to be performed, what it means, and so on depends on the historical era, gender, and context. The Theme Park Version, however, is this: After a period of meditation, the samurai walks out before the witnesses and sits seiza on a white sheet or platform; a special knife is set before him and a stern-looking dude stands behind him with a raised sword. The samurai says whatever the drama necessitates, then rams the knife deep into his abdomen, curving up into his chest cavity, and slowly pulls it from left to right. The stern-looking dude (kaishakunin, or second) is expected to be a sport and cut off his head before the samurai loses his composure. It's just bad suicide etiquette for the victim to show pain as he's disemboweling himself, after all. Bonus points if he can cut the head off in such a way that a tiny strap of skin still connects it to the body, thus preventing it from rolling on the floor. Since disembowelling oneself is considered unwomanly, the female version of this, jigai, is a little different: the suicidal woman sits seiza, ties her legs together so they won't fall open scandalously after death, and slices her jugular vein with a knife. It's mainly used when military defeat is imminent, to go out with honor rather than suffer a horrible death (among other things) at the hands of the invading army. A similar practice, known as "kagebara" is a common dramatic device in Japanese theater. In this, a character comes onto the stage, proceeds to tell off a lord who isn't being particularly smart in his decisions, and then open his robe to reveal he's already slit his belly and "punished" himself for his treasonous act. This is linked to "kanshi," or a retainer committing seppuku to protest an act by his lord. The reason for wearing white in both cases is because red has such a nice contrast to white. If you're going to die, might as well die in style. This also counts as the most sincere way to say, "I'm sorry" to society at large. This is Serious Business, people. For the Wiki's purposes, Seppuku covers a broad range of ritualized suicides. Basically, whenever a Japanese character (or vaguely Asian one) makes a big deal about how, why, and when they kill themselves, this is what's understood to be happening. In what may or may not be related to this tradition, the World Health Organization ranks Japan ninth globally in reported suicides (the United States is 45th and the UK 60th out of 95). In comparison to countries of similar wealth, these statistics indicate a different attitude toward suicide that might be evident in Japanese entertainment. In Real Life Japan, it isn't uncommon though still shocking, for disgraced officials and politicians to do themselves in, albeit not according to ritual. When a celebrity kills themselves, expect more than a few fans to follow suit. Compare Leave Behind a Pistol and Bath Suicide for similarly ritualised suicide methods in the West. Examples of Seppuku include:
- Seppuku(切腹, "stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai honor code, seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses, or performed for other reasons that have brought shame to them. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the abdomen and moving the blade from left to right in a slicing motion.
- Seppuku was a word in the Japanese language for the ritual suicide by disembowelment. When Walter Takagi was facing his punishment in 1974 he had grisly visions of seppuku from the old samurai movies he had watched as a kid. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1) Bridget McLellan referred to Starfleet's contingency plan of using trilithium bomb to seppuku. (VAN - Declassified novella: The Stars Look Down)
- Seppuku, chest cutting, was the act of ritual suicide. Seppuku was a means for samurai to atone for failure or dishonor. Successful completion of the ceremony would remove the stain of dishonor from a samurai's name, although it would happen posthumously.
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