Such forced seppuku required little evidence or testimony. This form of obligatory seppuku continued until 1868, when it was finally banned. Seppuku was also permitted as an alternative to execution ...

While judiciary seppuku may have ended with the imperial decree, martial seppuku continued as a dying cry of the samurai class. In 1868, a return to imperial rule under Emperor Meiji was announced.

Seppuku is a form of ritual suicide also referred to as harakiri in which a samurai could achieve a noble death or atone for his crimes by taking his own life. Commonly, it is associated with the ...

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What Seppuku Means For Yabushige Yabushige is a man who lives for no one but himself. He was willing to switch sides as much as he could, so long as he stayed on the winning lane. In the finale of ...

A staged 19th-century enactment of the suicide ritual known as seppuku, in which the warrior, in white, cuts himself across the belly while his second, or kaishaku, prepares to decapitate him.