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	Seppuku
		Seppuku was considered a privilege for samurai and the nobility.
		Now the seppuku candidate was supposed to take a short dagger and cut his abdomen by slicing it from the left lower part of his upper body upwards in right direction.
		Seppuku could be performed to show the ultimate loyalty towards one's deceased lord or husband, although this form was rare.
	www.artelino.com /articles/seppuku.asp (1099 words)

	Nogi
		Seppuku is a ritual death rite with an ancient history in Japanese culture.
		Both seppuku and jisatsu are two differing suicide forms separated by motive and process, yet the distinction between the two is unclear due to anachronistic persuasions caused by conflict between modernization and the legacy of the Emperor.
		Seppuku in Japanese society climaxed at the end of the Meiji period as General Nogi Maresuke and his wife took their lives after the death of the Meiji Emperor in 1912.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/nogi.html (1096 words)

	Seppuku Tattoo
		Seppuku Tattoo is established on the solid foundation laid down by the generations of masters who came before, with a recognition that it was their sacrifices that made our practicing of these fine arts possible today, and will strive to honor and uphold their principles and ethics.
		Seppuku Tattoo is proud to work in a medium of art that permeates both time and geography, being older than written language records and found in every culture in mankind’s history.
		Seppuku Tattoo will always recognize that without a client’s eye to view the art, and without a client’s skin to wear the art, there is no art; therefore, the client is paramount to the tattooing process, and the client is not here to serve an artist’s ego, portfolio, or bank account.
	www.seppukutattoo.com /frontpage.html (568 words)

	Articles - Seppuku: the art of ritual suicide - ShopUsMore.com
		Seppuku or hara-kiri, as most people are used to call it in everyday language, is a suicide performed by Samurai, privileged Japanese warrior, committed in ritual manner.
		While committing seppuku during battle was quite a quick-performed action, the ritual of committing suicide on the order of the daimio was a long prepared meticulous ceremony carried out with utmost piece of mind.
		As seppuku was not quite an immediate suicide, it was prescribed by the ceremony to have a kaishkunin, an assistant who would in fact put an end to the victim.
	www.shopusmore.com /articles/seppuku_art.html (852 words)

	Seppuku
		Seppuku (ou Hara-kiri) est un suicide rituel et honorable d'origine japonaise.
		Le seppuku possède son propre code, qui doit être respecté scrupuleusement, tant par celui qui commet l'acte que par les personnes assistant à celui-ci.
		En effet, le seppuku n'est absolument par une pratique solitaire, tout du moins dans le cadre du Bushido; si le public est restreint et choisi, il est par contre nécessaire.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/fr/wikipedia/s/se/seppuku.html (680 words)

	Samurai is one of the attractive
		Seppuku was also committed when a samurai lost his pride or was captured in a battle.
		It was an expression of grief at one’s master’s death and was the utmost form of loyalty to the lord.
		One occasion for committing seppuku was the death of the lord, it was part of bushido.
	www.indiana.edu /~ealc100/Group20/seppuku.htm (1107 words)

	Seppuku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seppuku (Japanese: 切腹, "stomach-cutting" or "belly slicing") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.
		The practice of committing seppuku at the death of one's master is known as oibara (追腹 or 追い腹) or junshi (殉死); the ritual is similar.
		Seppuku as judicial punishment was officially abolished in 1873, shortly after the Meiji Restoration, but voluntary seppuku did not completely die out.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seppuku (2586 words)

	Seppuku (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Seppuku with ritual attire and second General Akashi Gidayu preparing to commit Seppuki after losing a battle for his master in 1582.
		Seppuku is better known in English as hara-kiri (wiktionary:&33145;&20999;&12426;, literally "cutting the stomach", written with the same kanji as seppuku but in reverse order), which is considered the more vulgar term in Japanese.
		Seppuku was a key part of bushido, the code of the samurai warriors; it was used by warriors to avoid falling into enemy hands, and to attenuate shame.
	seppuku.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (2498 words)

	Seppuku - Japanese for ritual suicide
		Seppuku is better known in English as hara-kiri (written with the same kanji in reverse order 腹切), which has frequently been mispronounced as "hari-kari." Of the two terms, hara-kiri is considered more vulgar.
		Seppuku was a key part of bushido, the code of the samurai warriors; it was used by warriors to avoid falling into enemy hands, and to rid oneself of shame.
		Seppuku was traditionally used as the ultimate protest when one's own morals stood in the way of executing an order from the master.
	www.japan-101.com /culture/seppuku.htm (616 words)

	Seppuku (Harakiri)
		Seppuku is a story of massive unjustifiable layoffs leading to disgraceful acts and deaths.
		It is a criticism of the then current Japanese society that used their samurai history as its subject, but most of the points it makes are more true of the east and west today, as the idea of working for one company for life has all but disappeared.
		Seppuku is a chess match between Saito, who holds the power because Tsugumo is in his house and he's got countless swordsmen to back him up, and Tsugumo who is a master verbal strategist with some tricks up his sleeve.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/seppuku.html (1549 words)

	Seppuku, Samurai Suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Seppuku: A Samurai ritual suicide that is thought of as an honorable death.
		The practised form of seppuku was Hara-kiri (cutting of the stomach).
		Seppuku was performed in a formal ceremony when not in battle.
	www.paralumun.com /aseppuku.htm (74 words)

	The Aikido FAQ: The ritual of seppuku
		The ritual of seppuku varied from age to age in Japan.
		It was first recorded at the end of the Heian period, when a samurai from the Minamoto was in a losing battle and fell on his sword, killing himself while around him the yashiki burned to the ground.
		Seppuku on the battlefield was what you could make do with; i.e., if you didn't have time to take off your armor, you'd just slit the veins in your neck or fall on your sword AKA Marc Antony style.
	www.aikidofaq.com /essays/seppuku.html (1441 words)

	Seppuku - Ritual Suicide
		Seppuku, (Sape-puu-kuu) the Japanese formal language term for ritual suicide (Hara-kiri (Har-rah-kee-ree) is the common language term.), was an intregal aspect of feudal Japan (1192-1868).
		Other reasons a samurai committed seppuku were: to show contempt for an enemy; to protest against injustice, as a means to get their lord to reconsider an unwise or unworthy action and as a means to save others.
		If condemned to death, it was held to be a privilege to execute the sentence on one's own body rather than to be a disgrace and die at the hands of the public headsman.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /duchamp/410/seppuku.html (624 words)

	On Seppuku, Katanas, and Samurai
		Left by iceymoon at 3/29/2005 3:20 PM actually, while harakiri and seppuku do contain the same kanji, the reason why they are pronounced differently is because the kanji characters are reversed.
		seppuku is considered the proper term because hara-kiri sounds more vulgar (a comparison i could make would be non-literal tranlations of the words to "ritual disembowlment" [seppuku] and "cutting the stomach" [hara-kiri]).
		Good demo of seppuku but as you can see there is only a small portion of blade left and would not bring a quick death as a wakazashi would.
	haacked.com /archive/2005/01/04/1813.aspx (2334 words)

	Urban Dictionary: Seppuku
		Some who commit seppuku have a second person decapitate them after the one who kills himself commits the disembowelment.
		He has commited seppuku by slicing his throat with a knife.
		Seppuku is the ancient art of killing yourself if you get super pissed and can’t find anybody else to kill.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Seppuku (540 words)

	Editor's Picks: Seppuku - Practical Guide
		Often one was not even required to DO anything, merely reaching for the knife was considered to be the act initiating your second's coup-de-grace (the famous "47 ronin" were despatched thus).
		DON'T engage in any of the degenerate forms of seppuku that involve stabbing yourself with a paper fan: they are vulgar and a paper cut can be quite nasty.
		The rules for seppuku are as complex as for the tea ceremony, and the result roughly the same; if pushed we would have to recommend self-disembowelment over a slow death from lethal boredom, arthritis and bitter tea.
	kyushu.com /gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml (1052 words)

	Seppuku.US - The American Seppuku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In fact, Seppuku was abolished around the 17th century and is no longer a way to reclaim one's lost honor.
		In feudal Japan, Samurai were sometimes called upon to perform this final service to their lord (refered to as the daimyo) and meet death with honor and dignity.
		Whatever the reason, seppuku involved a samurai to disembowel themselves and then be beheaded by their second (called a kaishaku).
	www.seppuku.us (263 words)

	Seppuku - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		El Seppuku podía ser voluntario, usado por los guerreros para evitar caer en manos del enemigo o para expiar un fallo al código del honor, u obligatorio, por mandato de un Shogun o tribunal en caso de que un samurai cometiera un delito de asesinato, robo o corrupción.
		Mientras el guerrero efectuaba el seppuku, un compañero kaishaku se mantenía a su lado de pie, y si veía a éste sufrir demasiado, le cortaba la cabeza.
		El Seppuku como castigo judicial fue oficialmente prohibido en Japón en 1873, aunque la práctica del seppuku no terminó del todo.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seppuku (878 words)

	Japan Glossary - Seppuku (harakiri) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ritual disembowelment performed by high-ranking samurai sentenced to death or lower-ranking samurai having lost their master as a sign of fidelity.
		Seppuku is normally performed in front of other persons, with one other samurai cutting off the victim's head after his self-disembowelment, so as to shorten the agony.
		Note that the word hara-kiri is usually used in the West, though the Japanese prefer the term seppuku.
	www.jref.com /glossary/harakiri.shtml (116 words)

	www.TheGline.com: DVD of the Week: (01-19-06): Harakiri (Seppuku)
		Harakiri (or Seppuku) takes its title, as some of you have probably determined by now, from the name of the suicide ritual used by samurai to save face when defeated or disgraced.
		Seppuku was devised by the samurai to keep their own people in line, and to provide a spectacular way of death so that the condemned could be exemplified.
		Even grimmer was how seppuku was used to ruthlessly maintain the all-important status quo, to protect the powerful from the consequences of their own incompetence and bias, and ostensibly to silence men who simply wanted to assert their dignity when none was to be found.
	www.thegline.com /dvd-of-the-week/2006/01-19-2006.htm (2158 words)

	Seppuku pattern
		I think Seppuku (and read-mostly caches in general) is a great pattern, and I had allready commented on that in the ACE thread.
		I think that this is a good common-case solution (which is what makes Seppuku so attractive in general), but it is too restrictive for a general-purpose pattern.
		In general, Seppuku simply illustrates how to do invalidations - I was pretty happy with read-only beans and read-mostly pattern in general, but the invalidation part was missing (until WebLogic 6.1 which implements seppuku automagically).
	www.theserverside.com /patterns/thread.tss?thread_id=11280 (4116 words)

	Alderac Entertainment Group :: View topic - Seppuku Timing
		Since the result is a loss of 3 honour for the controlling player(rulebook effect: death of dishonoued personalities), can he react to the destruction of his personality by committing seppuku to reduce the loss to one?
		Also, regarding Bayushi Saya, if a person is targeted by her effect and then required to perform and action (Ie Ambush, and rumours suggest Sacrifice of Pawns also applies (Zen or Marty, can you yes/no this?)) is the honour loss causd by Saya or the dishonoured personality?
		Finally, regarding Force of Will: if a dishonoured personality is targetted, then they will die because the 0ph effect of being dishonoured tranfers to their chi.
	www.alderac.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=19092 (570 words)

	Seppuku - Uncyclopedia
		Due to Seppuku, only the best and brightest of Samurai are left (which is saying a lot when you consider how friggin' awesome Samurai are) - ensuring that they are closest to the level of asskickingness of Ving Rhames and Mr.
		The Samurai Seppuku is commonly accepted to be far greater than the supposed Ninja Seppuku in a number of ways, but most significantly in motivation: The Samurai, as previously stated, only killed themselves after having been dishonored (or after sex with a zebra), in order to preserve their Honor and Great Justice.
		They officially recognized how hardcore each other was, and ruled that the Samurai would be the "Pirates of the Land" and the pirates would be the "Samurai of the Sea".
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Seppuku (637 words)

	Amazon.com: Behemoth: Seppuku: Books: Peter Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As the three engage in a power-play in which no one's motivations are clear and the fate of the world hangs in the balance, action takes precedence over thought, to sometimes disastrous effect.
		The chief problem with BEHEMOTH: SEPPUKU is that in spite of setting up Lenie Clarke as the heroine of the story, Clarke herself is entirely passive throughout the book, making no real decisions or actions on her own, being led by her sociopathic-but-honourable comrade Ken Lubin.
		A new deadly microbe Seppuku is launched as a cure for Behemoth but when it kills the microbe it also infects the host.
	www.amazon.com /Behemoth-Seppuku-Peter-Watts/dp/0765311720 (2241 words)

	Amazon.com: Harakiri - Criterion Collection: DVD: Tatsuya Nakadai,Rentaro Mikuni,Shima Iwashita,Akira Ishihama,Yoshio ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Unlike Kurosawa's rousing samurai epics, this is an uncompromisingly tragic tale, exposing the hypocrisy of 17th-century Japanese society with its story of a family destroyed by the cruelty of feudalism toward warriors in peacetime.
		To die by Seppuku was a privilege reserved for honorable men, and was formal and ritualized as is common in Japanese tradition.
		Now all of the above-mentioned is told from the point of view of the clan chief who ordered the swordless samurai to commit ritual suicide as he is speaking with another ronin who interestingly enough is the father in law of the young samurai who had been forced to kill himself with a bamboo sword.
	www.amazon.com /Harakiri-Criterion-Collection-Tatsuya-Nakadai/dp/B0009WIE2A (2676 words)

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