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Seppuku as judicial punishment was abolished in 1873, shortly after the Meiji Restoration, but voluntary seppuku did not completely die out. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 31 ] Dozens of people are known to have committed seppuku since then, [ 36 ] [ 34 ] [ 37 ] including General Nogi Maresuke and his wife on the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912, and numerous ...
Shōgun is a 1975 historical novel by author James Clavell that chronicles the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868). ). Loosely based on actual events and figures, Shōgun narrates how European interests and internal conflicts within Japan brought about the Shogunate restorat
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Yukio Mishima (lower) with Shintaro Ishihara in 1956 (on the roof of the Bungeishunjū Building in Ginza 6-chome) Mishima made use of contemporary events in many of his works. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion , published in 1956, is a fictionalization of the burning down of the Kinkaku-ji Buddhist temple in Kyoto in 1950 by a mentally ...
Harakiri (切腹, Seppuku [2]) is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The story takes place between 1619 and 1630 during the Edo period and the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Comic Girls (こみっくがーるず, Komikku Gāruzu) is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Kaori Hanzawa. It made its first appearance in Houbunsha 's Manga Time Kirara Max magazine with the May 2014 issue.
The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand , it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers.