We talked about samurai warriors and the honor in the manner they die through harakiri. As I demoed the act of harakiri, Nicolas asked, "What letter or word can you write with the sword? Can you spell your name?"
Seppuku ("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 most famous form of seppuku is also known as 'harakiri' ("cutting the belly"). 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 tanto, into the abdomen and moving the blade from left to right in a slicing motion.
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