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  2. Seppuku - Wikipedia

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    While voluntary seppuku is the best known form, [6] in practice, the most common form of seppuku was obligatory seppuku, used as a form of capital punishment for disgraced samurai, especially for those who committed a serious offense such as rape, robbery, corruption, unprovoked murder, or treason.

  3. Criminal punishment in Edo-period Japan - Wikipedia

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    Exclusion from the location of the crime was a penalty for both commoners and samurai. Tokoro-barai, banishment to a certain distance, was common for non-samurai. [citation needed] Kōfu kinban, assignment to the post of Kōfu in the mountains west of Edo, is an example of rustication of samurai. [citation needed]

  4. Kaishakunin - Wikipedia

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    In any case, the kaishakunin will always keep eye contact with the samurai performing seppuku, and waiting for his cut (kiri) through his abdomen (hara). When the samurai actually performs the seppuku , and after he returns the dagger ( tantō ) back to its place, the kaishakunin steps forward, letting the katana drop straight through the back ...

  5. Forty-seven rōnin - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Kiri-sute gomen - Wikipedia

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    Armoured samurai with sword and dagger, c.1860 Because the right was defined as a part of self defence, kiri-sute gomen had a set of tight rules. The strike had to follow immediately after the offence, meaning that the striker could not attack someone for a past grievance or after a substantial amount of time.

  7. Harakiri (1962 film) - Wikipedia

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    However, only one of the three samurai, Omodaka, actually commits seppuku, with the other two being forced by the clan to take their own lives at sword point. Thus, the way Tsugumo takes revenge is very subtle: he makes the clan live by the rules they claim to uphold and which they used to punish Motome.

  8. How Shogun's Depiction of Seppuku Compares to Real History - AOL

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  9. Minamoto no Nakatsuna - Wikipedia

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    Minamoto no Nakatsuna (died 1180) was a Japanese samurai lord. He was the elder son of Minamoto no Yorimasa , and fought in the Battle of Uji in 1180, during the Genpei War . Together with his father and younger brother Minamoto no Kanetsuna , the three fought against the Taira clan .