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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 and seppuku a written term, but spoken amongst higher classes for the same act.
Honor suicide has deep roots historically in Japanese society, most famously in the form of harakiri (also known as seppuku). The 1962 film Harakiri directed by Masaki Kobayashi gives a direct and coherent portrayal of the act, involving ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. This would be voluntary and most often carried out by samurai who had ...
The complete cut-slash-withdraw motion is called daki-kubi. After the dead samurai falls, the kaishakunin, with the same slow, silent style used when unsheathing the katana, shakes the blood off the blade (a movement called chiburi) and returns the katana to the scabbard (a movement called noto), while kneeling towards the fellow samurai's dead ...
Harakiri, a Japanese film by Masaki Kobayashi "Hara-Kiri: Murder", a 1974 episode of the US television series Hawaii Five-O; Harakiri, a Turkish film by Ertem Göreç; Harakiri, a Dutch film by Jimmy Tai; Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, a 2011 Japanese film by Takashi Miike, the remake of the 1962 film
The character originated as a cursive form of ト, the top component of 占 (as in 占める shimeru), and was then applied to other kanji of the same pronunciation. See ryakuji for similar abbreviations. This character is also commonly used in regards to sushi. In this context, it refers that the sushi is pickled, and it is still pronounced shime.
VJE Japanese input method for DOS. Japanese input methods are used to input Japanese characters on a computer. There are two main methods of inputting Japanese on computers. One is via a romanized version of Japanese called rōmaji (literally "Roman character"), and the other is via keyboard keys corresponding to the Japanese kana.
A woodblock print depicting the wife of Onodera Junai, one of the forty-seven rōnin.She prepares herself to follow her husband into death. Junshi (殉死, "following the lord in death", sometimes translated as "suicide through fidelity") refers to the medieval Japanese act of vassals committing suicide for the death of their lord.
Women carried them in their kimono either in a pocket-like space (futokoro) or in the sleeve pouch (tamoto) [2] for self-defense and for ritual suicide by slashing the veins in the left side of the neck. [3] [4] When a samurai woman married, she was expected to carry a kaiken with her when she moved in with her husband. [5]