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As the samurai to defend their honor: 7 eerie facts about harakiri
The inhabitants of the country of the Rising Sun your sense of honor, and the attitude to death than the Europeans. To die of old age was considered unworthy of a soldier. Death had come by the sword. In some cases, in order to protect their honor, samurai committed ritual suicide - harakiri. < Website tells some facts about this terrible custom.
1. «Harakiri" means "cutting the belly". "Seppuku" Sami Japanese call the ritual. Seppuku was done only in cases where the honor of the samurai was tarnished if he could not protect his master from the death of, or as a punishment for serious misconduct in the family
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2. Adherents of Zen Buddhism religion believed that the human soul is the repository of the stomach. So death by ripping it was considered a noble and sincere thoughts.
3. seppuku was performed at a variety of witnesses. In addition, over the suicide she was kaishaku - warrior, who after seppuku should behead the samurai, that no one has seen the face distorted by pain killed
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4. The very ritual of seppuku was accomplished with the help of tachi (long sword), wakizashi (short sword) or a tanto (knife). In the absence of kaishaku, Samurai had seppuku after another hit the blade itself in the throat.
5. When perform the ritual seppuku, samurai dressed in a white kimono, it was applied to a favorite dish and cup of sake. Always I had to sit in a stable position so that after hitting the body remains in the same position. Part of the blade blades turn around the paper, which is held for a samurai (not the handle). The bomber was first to make a breakthrough on the left to the right and then up - to the insides spilled out, "exposing the soul" of the warrior.
6. There are cases where women kill themselves in the same way . Seppuku was done after the death of her husband, or for serious misconduct. Women used to hara-kiri knife, given to their father in the majority or the groom to the wedding. But many of them just cut his throat with a blade or guided into the heart. Legs with a rope tie up a woman fell and died in the same position.
7. Officially seppuku was banned by the government until 1968. But until now, the yakuza criminal authorities thus take their own lives.
via www.kulturologia.ru/blogs/200516/29618/
1. «Harakiri" means "cutting the belly". "Seppuku" Sami Japanese call the ritual. Seppuku was done only in cases where the honor of the samurai was tarnished if he could not protect his master from the death of, or as a punishment for serious misconduct in the family
.
2. Adherents of Zen Buddhism religion believed that the human soul is the repository of the stomach. So death by ripping it was considered a noble and sincere thoughts.
3. seppuku was performed at a variety of witnesses. In addition, over the suicide she was kaishaku - warrior, who after seppuku should behead the samurai, that no one has seen the face distorted by pain killed
.
4. The very ritual of seppuku was accomplished with the help of tachi (long sword), wakizashi (short sword) or a tanto (knife). In the absence of kaishaku, Samurai had seppuku after another hit the blade itself in the throat.
5. When perform the ritual seppuku, samurai dressed in a white kimono, it was applied to a favorite dish and cup of sake. Always I had to sit in a stable position so that after hitting the body remains in the same position. Part of the blade blades turn around the paper, which is held for a samurai (not the handle). The bomber was first to make a breakthrough on the left to the right and then up - to the insides spilled out, "exposing the soul" of the warrior.
6. There are cases where women kill themselves in the same way . Seppuku was done after the death of her husband, or for serious misconduct. Women used to hara-kiri knife, given to their father in the majority or the groom to the wedding. But many of them just cut his throat with a blade or guided into the heart. Legs with a rope tie up a woman fell and died in the same position.
7. Officially seppuku was banned by the government until 1968. But until now, the yakuza criminal authorities thus take their own lives.
via www.kulturologia.ru/blogs/200516/29618/
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