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Seppuku

Seppuku (切腹, lit. 'cutting belly'), also called harakiri (腹切り, lit. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honor, but was also practiced by other Japanese people during the Shōwa era (particularly officers near the end of…

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Hiragana
せっぷく
Kanji
切腹
Katakana
セップク
Romanization
Seppuku
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TranscriptionsRomanizationSeppuku

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Etymology

Ritual

Female ritual suicide

As capital punishment

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In modern Japan

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In popular culture

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Seppuku

Nodes149
Edges148
Triples209
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013423
Components1

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Seppuku

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related to Further reading · 60
Seppuku → Algernon Bertram, An Account, Andrew, Archived, BF00578069, Brinckmann, Buke Sho Hatto, Charles, Christopher, CS1, Culture, Da Capo Press, Dark Shadow, Date Masamune, Following, Freeman-Mitford, From, Fuse, Hagakure, Hans
related to Notable cases · 27
Seppuku → Asano Naganori, Ashikaga Mochiuji, Azai Nagamasa, Byakkotai, Forty-six, Hōjō Takatoki, Hōjō Ujimasa, List, Maeda Jurozaemon, Minamoto, Oda Nobunaga, Rikyū, Saigō Takamori, Sassa Narimasa, Sen, Shibata Katsuie, Takechi Hanpeita, Takeda Katsuyori, Tametomo, Tanaka Shinbei
related to In modern Japan · 21
Seppuku → Chinese, Emperor Meiji, General Kanetoshi Mashita, General Nogi Maresuke, Hiroyasu Koga, His, Imperial Japan, In, It, Japan Self-Defense Forces, Japanese, Koga, Many, Masakatsu Morita, Meiji Restoration, Mishima, Morita, Shanghai Incident, The, World War II
related to history · 15
Seppuku → April, Battle, Dan-no-ura, Her, Honkoku-ji Temple, Japan, Kyoto, Onodera Junai, Onodera Tan, Ryokaku-in Temple, Shimogyō-ku, Stephen, Taira, Tomomori, Turnbull
related to Etymology · 14
Seppuku → American English, As, Cantonese, Chinese, Christopher Ross, Harakiri, In Japanese, It, Mandarin, MC, Middle Chinese, Sino-Japanese, The, While
related to In popular culture · 10
Seppuku → Chūshingura, Eiji Yoshikawa, Hollywood, Humanity, Japanese, Paper Balloons, Rashomon, Ronin, Taiko, The
related to Religious and social context · 10
Seppuku → Abbot Jitsunyo, Amida Buddha, By, Christian, Hosokawa Gracia, Hosokawa Tadaoki, Jōdo Shinshū, Pure Land, The, Voluntary
related to Ritual · 10
Seppuku → Dressed, During, Edo, He, In, Minamoto, The, This, When, Yorimasa
related to The Kobe Incident · 10
Seppuku → Bertram Freeman-Mitford, British Ambassador, In, In February, Japan, Kobe Incident, Lord Redesdale, Old Japan, Taki Zenzaburō, Tales
related to As capital punishment · 7
Seppuku → Depending, On, The, This, Unlike, While, Zanshu

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samurai suicide would death japanese ritual kaishakunin japan also one cut harakiri practice committed usually needed honor war defeated punishment

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
SeppukuHiraganaせっぷく1.00infobox
SeppukuKanji切腹1.00infobox
SeppukuKatakanaセップク1.00infobox
SeppukuRomanizationSeppuku1.00infobox
SeppukuTranscriptionsTranscriptionsRomanizationSeppuku1.00infobox
Seppukuis abest known form0.90text
a tantō or kaikeninstance ofusing a knife0.80text
rapeinstance ofespecially for those who committed a serious offense0.80text
robberyinstance ofespecially for those who committed a serious offense0.80text
corruptioninstance ofespecially for those who committed a serious offense0.80text
unprovoked murderinstance ofespecially for those who committed a serious offense0.80text
or treasoninstance ofespecially for those who committed a serious offense0.80text

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