Seppuku

Harikari, also known as seppuku, is Japanese in origin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Careful, she might get confused by that funny-sounding Japanese word and think that seppuku is what happens when you drink too much alcohol. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ever hear of a lovely Japanese thing called seppuku? ❋ Stephen Hunter (2010)

Ancient samurai were famous for committing ritual suicide by disemboweling themselves with their swords, which was called seppuku or harakiri (two ways to read the same kanji characters). ❋ Unknown (2009)

After that tragedy, "seppuku" was forbidden, and is now an anachronism. by ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Hara kiri," however, is the vulgar term for "seppuku," the ritual self-disembowelment practiced during feudal times in Japan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It should be stated further that in the case of "seppuku," as soon as the act of cutting the abdomen had been completed, always by a single rapid stroke, someone from behind would, with a single blow, behead the victim. ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)

The physical agony of "seppuku" was, therefore, very brief, lasting but a few seconds. ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)

And not infrequently those who were condemned to commit "seppuku" were deficient in physical courage; in such cases, some friend took hold of the victim's hand and forced him to cut himself. ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)

In thus describing the Japanese sentiment in regard to "seppuku," there is, however, some danger of misrepresenting it. ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)

To be condemned to commit "seppuku" was a disgrace, but it was much less of a disgrace than to be beheaded as a common man, for it permitted the samurai to show of what stuff he was made. ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)

Naturally these stories occasionally ended with the death of a samurai who takes his own life during a ritual suicide, which is referred to as "seppuku" within the bushido code. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This form of ritual suicide was known as "seppuku". ❋ Unknown (2009)

And though Mishima's own cinematic enactments of Japenese ritual seppuku in the films Patriotisim and Hitokiri aren't queer films, they are no less imbued with the aesthetics of a spiritual abjection thought to purge the human spirit of its harmful contaminations. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

Some Ministers who are to be cast out into the wilderness (the "back of the benches", in cult lore) have chosen self-immolation instead, with one case reported of seppuku, or disemboweling oneself on one's own second home. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His methods include slitting his wrists, hanging, self-immolation, and seppuku among others. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If Kanye ever yelled at me like that, I'd probably go commit ritual seppuku, so as not to disgrace my family and country. ❋ Alexandra Petri (2010)

I am not aware of a polity that has committed seppuku in this manner ever before, so I maintain the view that amazingly foreseeable problems with obvious solutions, will be solved. ❋ Unknown (2009)