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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 ...
85 died by disease or by seppuku The 1754 Horeki River incident ( 宝暦治水事件 , Hōreki Chisui Jiken ) was an incident in which the Tokugawa shogunate ordered Satsuma Domain to carry out difficult flood control works in Mino Province near its border with Owari Province in the Chūbu region of Japan during the Hōreki era.
Chief of staff: Rear Adm. Hideo Yano (seppuku 7 July) Thirty-first Army [f] Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Obata (on inspection tour of Guam during battle; seppuku there 11 August) 14th Air Fleet Defenses of Saipan Lieutenant General Yoshitsugu Saito (seppuku 7 July) Approx. 25,500 army and 6,200 navy personnel 43rd Division 118th Infantry Regiment
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Tametomo eventually killed himself by slicing his abdomen, or committing seppuku. He is quite possibly the first warrior to commit seppuku in the chronicles. [1] During the Edo period, a descendant of Tametomo named Kitō Heinai (鬼頭 兵内) was involved in the 1754 Hōreki River incident. [3] Chinsetsu Yumihari-zuki, by Hokusai Katsushika
Ashikaga Shigeuji (足利成氏) (c. 1438 – 1497) [1] was a Muromachi period warrior and the Kamakura-fu's fifth and last Kantō kubō (Shōgun Deputy). [a] Fourth son of fourth Kubō Ashikaga Mochiuji, he succeeded his father only in 1449, a full decade after his death by seppuku.
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.
Before Azai Nagamasa committed seppuku he decided to make one last attack on Nobunaga's main camp; in the end, however, he failed and was instead captured. Nagamasa suffered much the same fate as his comrade-in-arms Asakura Yoshikage , whose castle at Oda Nobunaga 's Siege of Ichijodani Castle was set aflame and destroyed.