To: gov_bean_ counter
Seppuku takes 2 people and quite messy. The individual slices open his belly with a knife or short sword. The second beheads him. I've seen pictures supposedly of Yukio Mishima. His second did not proper decapitate him, tring a few times. A third nationalist fixed the situation. A bloody mess all around.
No one has done this since then. Still, if someone wants to send a tanto to Greenspand, Bernake, and Geithner....
16 posted on
09/10/2012 3:38:59 PM PDT by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: rmlew
Correct. His first kaishyaku in fact was his homosexual lover who was not a swordsman —ended up hitting his in the shoulder.
Mishima was in agony and another member of the TateNoKai (a long-time kendo expert) seized the blade and promptly lopped off his head.
The first boy went on to become a famous weird celebrity and then later got into quite a bit of trouble.
20 posted on
09/10/2012 3:56:39 PM PDT by
gaijin
To: rmlew; maikeru; Dr. Marten; Eric in the Ozarks; Al Gator; snowsislander; sushiman; ...
Still, if someone wants to send a tanto to Greenspand, Bernake, and Geithner....Tantos all around, for Congress and K-Street!
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37 posted on
09/10/2012 6:59:16 PM PDT by
DTogo
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