Samurai ritual suicide

Usage examples of seppuku.

Ten men had been demoted for untidiness, the entire night watch paraded in ignominy throughout the castle, two samurai ordered to commit seppuku because they were late for their watch, and four nightsoil collectors thrown off the battlements for spilling part of a container in the castle garden.

By custom another samurai always assisted at a seppuku, standing slightly behind the kneeling man, to decapitate him with a single stroke before the agony became unbearable and uncontrollable and so shamed the man at the supreme moment of his life.

Samurai women committed seppuku by thrusting their knives into their throats and therefore needed no assistance.

Sometimes they would stay and fight to the death, sometimes they would commit seppuku with ceremony.

Yabu told him about the attempted seppuku on the first night, and how he had neatly bent the Anjin-san to their mutual advantage.

The Lord Goroda was forty-nine when he committed seppuku to prevent capture.

I tell you ladies commit seppuku by slitting their throats, Anjin-san, and not their stomachs like men?

So sorry, a general and a senior administrator commit seppuku in the donjon forecourt.

I cannot accept that and beg to be allowed to commit seppuku and go before you.

At one station where horses were not available the samurai in charge was removed, his stipend given to another, and he was invited to commit seppuku or shave his head and become a priest.

Then your wife said she would commit seppuku at once without my permission before she would allow you to be shamed in that way.

Sudara would order the man to commit seppuku now, which would save the pension and all further bother and increase the expertise of the replacement.

I beg permission to commit seppuku for having held this shameful secret so long.

Officially he committed seppuku because he was caught embezzling funds from the treasury.

With no hope of survival, he retired within the temple hall and committed seppuku to avoid capture.