Cio-Cio-San's way out

• Ritual disembowelment
• Act in "The Last Samurai"
• Self-destruction
• Japanese method of face-saving
• "Shogun" rite
• Ritual suicide
• (Japan) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword

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The Harakiri is a slope in the ski resort of Mayrhofen Ski Zillertal 3000. It is named after the Japanese vulgar term for seppuku , ritual suicide by samurai . With incline of up to 78%, vertical drop of 375 metres and a length of about 1500 metres, it ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
harakiri \ha"ra*ki`ri\, hara-kiri \ha"ra-ki`ri\(h[add]"r[add]*k[=e]`r[i^]), n. [Jap., stomach cutting.] A ritual form of suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; ...