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trapped at Awazu in Omi Province and committed seppuku. ... his young wife and daughter and commit seppuku. Minamoto Yoshitsune’s ...

[[Image:Seppuku.jpg|thumb|200px|A staged re-enactment of suppuku, ... only one way to save his dignity: death. Seppuku (commonly called "harakiri ...

their daimyo-master was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting ... , a ronin was supposed to commit oibara seppuku (also "hara kiri" ...

but others claim that he was forced to commit seppuku. ... #039;s new ruler and Kategora committing seppuku. However, the internal struggle ...

suicide in public in the traditional seppuku style. Mishima was a prolific ... the commandant's office and committed seppuku (suicide by disembowelment ...

views on honor and religion led to seppuku being respected as a means ... his honor, he could regain it by performing seppuku.) *Suicide as a ...

and allowed to commit jigai (female seppuku) if she were cast off. ... should he protect his honor by committing seppuku, or should he display courage ...

one of his loyal retainers, committed seppuku (ritual suicide). This was ... Azai clans, and Azai Nagamasa committed seppuku (ritual suicide) and sent ...

into the Phoenix Hall, where Yorimasa committed seppuku. Prince Mochihito escaped to Nara, but was captured on the way and killed soon afterwards. ...

Katanuma Nobumoto (whom he ordered to commit seppuku, ritual suicide), and the second, a few years later in 1565, by his own son Takeda Yoshinobu. His ...

Hall of the Byōdō-in, where Yorimasa committed seppuku.]] The Mii-dera monks were unable to ensure Prince Mochihito sufficient protection, so ...

the last Hōjō regent and 800 retainers to commit seppuku (ritual suicide by disembowelment) (Dodd and Richmond 2001, 220). Before vanishing into anonymity ...

the death of the lord), committed seppuku (ritual self-disembowelment) because of the death of his lord. In this year, Miyamoto Iori entered ...

commanding officers typically committed seppuku behind the lines while the rest perished in the banzai charge, as happened during the battles ...

Japanese views on honor and religion led to seppuku being respected as a means to atone for mistakes or failure during the samurai era. In the twentieth ...