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  2. Death poem - Wikipedia

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    The jisei, or death poem, of Kuroki Hiroshi, a Japanese sailor who died in a Kaiten suicide torpedo accident on 7 September 1944. It reads: "This brave man, so filled with love for his country that he finds it difficult to die, is calling out to his friends and about to die".

  3. The Spider's Thread - Wikipedia

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    Akutagawa was known for piecing together many different sources for many of his stories, and "The Spider's Thread" is no exception. He read Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov in English translation sometime between 1917 and 1918, and the story of "The Spider's Thread" is a retelling of a very short fable from the novel known as the Fable of the Onion, where an evil woman who had done ...

  4. Seppuku - Wikipedia

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    As Ross notes, It is commonly pointed out that hara-kiri is a vulgarism, but this is a misunderstanding. Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or Kun-yomi of the characters; as it became customary to prefer Chinese readings in official announcements, only the term seppuku was ever used in writing. So hara-kiri is a spoken term, but only to commoners ...

  5. Spider-Man (Takuya Yamashiro) - Wikipedia

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    Takuya Yamashiro was a motocross driver, son of the astrophysicist Dr. Hiroshi Yamashiro, and the man who would become his reality's Spider-Man.Whilst practicing on his motorbike, Takuya began to receive telepathic messages from an alien called Garia, who had been imprisoned in a cave by a vampiric warlord called Professor Monster.

  6. Those women longed for the touch of others' lips, and thus ...

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    [38] [39] The staff used an instrumental piano version of the same song when Misato is kissed by Kaji. [40] In addition to the original soundtrack of the series, composed by Shiro Sagisu , in the wedding scene the staff used "Tentoumushi no sanba" [ e ] , [ 41 ] [ 42 ] a pre-existing piece composed by Daizo Saito and Shunichi Makaino.

  7. One Piece season 10 - Wikipedia

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    Ryuma manages to land on a higher ledge, staggering while throwing his sword Shunsui to Zoro as acknowledgement of his opponent's skills. Ryuma collapses in a bout of flames and Brook's shadow is finally returned to him, to his great joy. Zoro acknowledges Ryuma's skill as a swordsman and says he wishes he could have met Ryuma before he died.

  8. Elfen Lied - Wikipedia

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    The song Elfenlied ("Elf Song") appears in the manga [13] and is credited to the composer Hugo Wolf. A poem by Eduard Mörike is the basis for Wolf's version. It is taught to Nyu by the manga-only protagonist Nozomi. In the manga, the Diclonius are kept in a grotto called the Lebensborn Cave, a reference to the Nazi eugenics program. [14]

  9. The Night Gwen Stacy Died - Wikipedia

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    The bridge in the original issue of Amazing Spider-Man #121 was stated in the text to be the George Washington Bridge. The Pulse #4 (Sept. 2004) also states the bridge to be the George Washington Bridge. The art of The Amazing Spider-Man #121, however, depicts the Brooklyn Bridge. Some reprints of the issue have had the text amended and now ...