2007-04-18 16:37:03 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Japanese ritual suicide, usually by Samurai warriors. The person plunges a knife into their stomach, then cuts themselves wide open. Their 'second', or assistant, then cuts their head off with their sword, to spare them the embarassment of flopping around with their guts hanging out.
And thank you for spelling it correctly.
2007-04-18 16:43:41 · answer #1 · answered by zzooti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hara Kiri is the art of honorable Suicide in battle
2007-04-18 23:39:39 · answer #2 · answered by 2d 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the traditional Japanese form of honorable suicide, also known by its Chinese equivalent, seppuku. It was practiced by the Japanese feudal warrior class in order to avoid falling into enemy hands. Around 1500, it became a privileged alternative to execution, granted to daimyo and samurai guilty of disloyalty to the emperor. The condemned man received a jeweled dagger from the emperor. He selected as his second a faithful friend, received official witnesses, and plunged the dagger into the left side of his abdomen, drew it across to the right, and made a slight cut upward; his second then beheaded him with one stroke of a sword, and the dagger was returned to the emperor.
2007-04-18 23:42:40 · answer #3 · answered by barbya15 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ritual suicide as performed in Japan. Disembowlment with a sword, nasty stuff.
2007-04-18 23:40:30 · answer #4 · answered by splitlevelmind 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a form of committing suicide by falling on a sword
2007-04-18 23:39:47 · answer #5 · answered by diannegoodwin@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was an announcer for the Chicago Cubs..great man..
2007-04-18 23:39:45 · answer #6 · answered by metoo 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Japanese assisted suicide. The person plunges a knife into his stomach and his assistant 'mercifully' chops off his head.
2007-04-18 23:39:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ritualistic suicide in Japan.
2007-04-18 23:40:36 · answer #8 · answered by Tony M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Japanese suicide. sword in the mid section
2007-04-18 23:39:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a form of suicide
2007-04-18 23:39:56 · answer #10 · answered by vanhammer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋