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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 ritualistic suicide by disembowelment.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. Moral code of the samurai This article is about the Japanese concept of chivalry. For other uses, see Bushido (disambiguation). This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all ...
Death Before Dishonor XV [1] was the 15th Death Before Dishonor professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH), which took place on September 22, 2017, at Sam's Town Live in Sunrise Manor, Nevada. Wrestlers from New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)—with
Death Before Dishonor, a 1987 American action film directed by Terry Leonard "Death Before Dishonor", a song from Five Finger Death Punch's 2007 album The Way of the Fist; Death Before Dishonor, a 1989 album from Dennis Brown containing a song of the same name; Death Before Dishonour, the fifth studio album by the Scottish punk band The ...
Just before making contact, the kaishakunin grips the handle (tsuka) with both hands, giving precision to the katana ' s blade and strength to the downward cut . The final cut must be controlled in order to reach only half the neck of the samurai; the kaishaku, leaving the required skin to hold the head attached to the samurai's body, was ...
The 2023 Death Before Dishonor was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). It was the 20th Death Before Dishonor and took place on July 21, 2023, at the CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton, New Jersey. Twelve matches were contested at the event, including four on the Zero Hour pre-show.
In mainland China and Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, the number 4 is often associated with death because the sound of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean words for four and death are similar (for example, the sound sì in Chinese is the Sino-Korean number 4 (四), whereas sǐ is the word for death (死), and in Japanese "shi" is the number 4, whereas ...
Honor suicide is a type of suicide whereby a person kills themself to escape the shame of an action they consider immoral or dishonorable, such as having had extra-marital sexual affairs, partaking in a scandal, or suffering defeat in battle.