seppuku
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As a result, I was more familiar with Mishima’s life — the turn to ultraright nationalism, the attempted coup and his ensuing death by seppuku — than with his art.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
So, I commit first-date seppuku and tell him about my lens and my vision loss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
Cicadas have a much higher-stakes conundrum when it comes to their sort of reproductive seppuku: they die shortly after mating, offering themselves up in order to ensure the continuation of the next generation.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2021
It sounds as if she would gladly commit seppuku, if only that didn’t require the sin of cultural appropriation: “I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you,” she wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2016
Among these, seppuku was counted the most honourable.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
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