Seppuku – Why did Samurai cut their own bellies?

The history of seppuku -- Japanese ritual suicide by cutting the stomach, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri

When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts

seppuku He was definitely afraid of old age and dying of illness in a hospital bed, so his death committing seppuku was nothing for

seppuku The history of seppuku - Japanese ritual suicide by cutting the stomach, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri - spans a millennium, and came to be…