[reed13k]

I wrote a paper on Samurai nearly 40 years ago.

Seppuku was modified multiple times throughout history. Originally the samurai would open their own belly and then cut their own throat if possible. This was later modified to add the second to do the beheading and then eventually instead of opening their belly they would merely place the tip of their sword or even a fan upon the belly before being beheaded.

Most don’t know that the women of samurai families had their own ritual which was basically throat cutting vs belly cutting.

[ansel12]

Seriously, who comes up with ideas like this, surely they didn’t vote on it?

Seppuku “involved “cutting across the belly, from left to right then, pulling the knife out, repositioning it above the solar plexus and then cutting straight down to make a cross shape before removing the knife and placing it on your right knee,”

[caddie]

I guess everyone is supposed to say, "Oh, wow, what a cool disciplined culture," but how these people carried on then, during WW2 and afterward, up to and including now, is just plain old messed up. Top to bottom.

Except for the 3 or 4 % who converted to Catholicism.

Now, the whole lot is a complete mess of comic book reading wankers. Unable to reproduce. Unable to come out of a 30 year recession.

Sorry for saying something I am not supposed to. Lots of pathology going on.

[dfwgator]

[Billthedrill]

The lower level of skill that samurai tended to have in the Edo period made it difficult for them to perform this properly.

Yeah. We complain about Gen Z a lot too. Kids these days...

[Paal Gulli]

Speaking of his being restored to honor after the fact, immediately after cutting off his head, the Kaishakunin shakes the blood from his blade, re-sheaths his sword, then kneels and while kneeling bows to the condemned's body.

Even if done with best intentions, hara-kiri, the cutting part of the sepuku ritual, doesn't always go to plan, even if you split yourself open from crotch to craw. When he Japanese military surrendered at the end of WWII, Admiral Takijiro Onishi, mastermind of the Kamikaze attacks, committed sepuku as means of apologizing to the families of the young men who had killed themselves at his behest. For whatever reason he didn't use a Kaishakunin and reportedly took 15 hours to die.

Note to self: when committing hara-kiri, don't forget to bring a buddy with a BFK (and who knows how to use it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takijir%C5%8D_%C5%8Cnishi

[dp0622]

I told you it was supposed to be the head!!

[fso301]