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At that moment the kaishaku, who, still crouching by his side, had been keenly watching his every movement, sprang to his feet, poised his sword for a second in the air; there was a flash, a heavy, ugly thud, a crashing fall; with one blow the head had been severed from the body.
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".
Kiri-sute gomen translates literally as "authorization to cut and leave [the body of the victim]." [ 2 ] Contrary to popular belief, this exact term did not originate in the Edo period . The real name used in historical sources is either uchi-sute ( 打捨 , "to strike and abandon") or burei-uchi ( 無礼打 , "to offend and strike") .
The revenge of the forty-seven rōnin (四十七士, Shijūshichishi), [2] also known as the Akō incident (赤穂事件, Akō jiken) or Akō vendetta, was a historical event in Japan in which a band of rōnin (lordless samurai) avenged the death of their former master on 31 January 1703. [3]
The letter was addressed to his close friend and fellow writer Masao Kume. [1] Akutagawa begins the note by stating his reason for his decision. He mentions that the author Régnier wrote in one of his short stories that no one who commits suicide fully knows why they do. [2] "A vague sense of anxiety about my own future" is the reason ...
Legend has it that he wrote one last message before being hospitalized prior to his death, says Disney historian Jim Korkis. Titled “TV Projects In Production: Ready for Production or Possible ...
Naomi Judd's autopsy report officially confirmed her cause of death -- she died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.According to the Williamson County, Tennessee, Medical Examiner's Office, the ...
Several years after Light's death, however, it is revealed in the sequel film Death Note: Light Up the New World that Light secretly had a son, Hikari Yagami (夜神光 Yagami Hikari), who was expected to inherit a Death Note and carry on Kira's legacy. Teru Mikami's status as Hikari's appointed guardian implies that Misa Amane was the boy's ...