Found inside – Page 26ARABASSONNEN Zen and the Way of the Samurai Zen Buddhism was introduced into Japan seppuku ( harakiri ) , for ... Kyudo koan and the practice of zazen meditation ( archery ) is still practiced in the same way as in acted intuitively : his ... Found inside – Page 51274) [< harakiri < hara belly + kiri cutting] 1 840 (WCD) harakiri swap a currency trade that ends in a financial loss or a very small profit, practiced by ... Found insideThe discipline of one performing seppuku particularly in maintaining the composure ... method ofsuicide practiced by the likesof Hitlerand Hemingway. The contributors to this volume argue that psychological, social, and cultural factors influence these choices and that the decisions made by the individual are important for understanding the mental state of the person choosing to die by ... Found inside – Page 126Reeling's Guide to Japan , for example , contains a lengthy description of seppuku as practiced by daimyo.44 Undoubtedly this was drawn from Mitford's Tales ... Found inside – Page 79Michael still tries to change his mind. ... Being a samurai in spirit, mind, soul, and body, and living bushido, he asks for seppuku. Found inside... often used for rituals such as seppuku, more commonly known to Westerners as hara-kiri. ... A few of the ways of the samurai are still practiced today, ... Found inside – Page 170In actual practice , stopping the blade in this manner would prevent it ... In ancient times , serving as kaishakunin to a samurai performing seppuku ... "The major purpose of this book," says the author, "is to clarify the historical and sociological significance of a unique method of self-destruction. Found inside – Page 137Yet in Japan for thousands of years suicide has been an acceptable, ... The romantic aura that surrounds suicide grew out of the development of seppuku, ... Found insidethe most highly ritualized violent form of seppuku). Seppuku had been banned by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1663 and was rarely practiced after that. Found insideEach chapter of the book examines one of the central ideas that Mishima develops in his writings: life as art, beauty as evil, culture as myth, eroticism as transgression, the artist as tragic hero, narcissism as the death drive. Found insideThe painful process of seppuku, particularly without a swordsman second, requiring unbelievable fortitude is for westerners a fascinating exotic practice. Found inside – Page 52The proper term for suicide performed by cutting one's abdomen open with a knife is seppuku. This practice originated during the warfare between feudal ... Found inside – Page 287... is still officially practiced in a few Middle Eastern countries. ... This ritual suicide, also known as seppuku or hara-kiri, was committed by these ... Found inside – Page 149Formal name for harakiri . Ancient religion of Japan . Military dictator of Japan . Straw floor mat . The shorter of two swords worn by samurai . ( See katana . ) Spear with a straight blade . Form of the Buddhist religion practiced by many samurai . Looks at the history, rituals, fans, and teams of Japanese professional baseball, and describes what it reveals about Japanese culture and Japanese-U.S. relations This powerful story of dedication and sacrifice brings together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religion and national history to dazzling effect. 'Was it death he was now waiting for? Or a wild ecstasy of the senses?' For the young army officer of Yukio Mishima's seminal story, 'Patriotism, ' death and ecstasy become elementally intertwined. Found inside – Page 496Like myself , you are an infantry general long schooled and practiced in infantry warfare . ... No one seriously expected Ushijima to quit but , having made that offer , the Americans felt free to paper the area still harboring enemy soldiers with surrender leaflets that ... The pair then walked to a designated site where , supposedly in the rite of seppuku , they disemboweled themselves with knives while aides ... Found inside – Page 25Javed rubbed his temples as he considered that Islam had no word like 'seppuku' for ritualistic suicide, but he recognized that the act was still practiced ... Found inside – Page 314Seppuku was considered an important ritual, and the kaishaku's role was critical. Bushi spent hours practicing a huge, cleaving, ritualized cut (some ... Found insideThis eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Now African Samurai presents the never-before-told biography of this unique figure of the sixteenth century, one whose travels between countries, cultures, and classes offer a new perspective on race in world history and a vivid portrait of ... Found inside – Page 781HARA - KIRI , har - a - kir ' ē , is a form of suicide practiced by the Japanese from ancient times to the 20th century , but now rarely used . The term literally means “ belly - cutting . ” The Japanese prefer the more elegant term seppuku , although ... Found inside – Page 278Seppuku, a more formal term for harakiri, is a suicidal practice by “cutting the belly.” It is believed that the abdomen was chosen because of the ancient ... Found inside – Page 164Zen Buddhism , which was practiced by many elites of the samurai class during the Kamakura period ( 1185-1392 ) , on the ... Seppuku or harakiri ( splitting the stomach ) , the ceremonial method of suicide used by the samurai or warrior class which was ... Although there has been a steady decline in the incidence of suicide , Japan today still remains one of the developed nations with a high suicide rate . Found inside – Page 243... andseppuku, theritualized disembowelment practiced by thesamuraiclass. The first mention of a seppuku goes back to the tenth century: the ... Nine short stories by the Japanese literary genius provide insights into the struggles and problems of his contemporary countrymen Found inside – Page 55Seppuku was officially removed from the list of death penalty . As a " private " practice , however , Seppuku was still committed by countless numbers of Japanese men since then as a time - honoured tradition in this country . Such official ban ... These are fearless ideological warriors, we're told, who have the same resolve and commitment to their beliefs as our own Navy SEALs, because they're willing to die for the sake of their cause. Drawing on more than a decade of research in Japan and the United States, David Novak traces the "cultural feedback" that generates and sustains Noise, an underground music genre combining distortion and electronic effects. Found inside – Page 148However, in their own households, military retainers rarely practiced ... Ritual Suicide Seppuku (or hara-kiri) is the Japanese term for the practice of ... Found inside – Page 14... for his novel Seppuku , a story , based on historical incidents in Kobe and Sakai in 1868 , of disturbances that occurred at ... ( 1703 - 62 ) was held in Hachinohe , Aomori Prefecture , where Andõ practiced medicine and drew a large following . Found inside – Page 133Although the practice of junshi came to an end toward the end of the seventeenth century, seppuku in many of its other forms continued ... Found inside – Page 231Probably the hallmark of Japan's suicide behaviour has been the highly ritualized self - disembowelment known as Seppuku ( or Harakiri , meaning literally " the belly slitting ” ) . Though rarely practiced since 1945 , it still holds a spell - binding ... Found inside – Page 12A sentence of seppuku for a daimyo was executed in the courtyard of the mansion of another daimyo . 一漁欧 ... Still other reasons existed for committing seppuku . Oibara ... Still , seppuku was not as widely practiced there as it was in Japan . Found insideMinamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. Found inside – Page 372The first recorded case of seppuku is said to have been the death of the archer ... though apparently more strongly expected and frequently practiced. Found inside – Page 52The practice of foot-binding was usually found in upper-class families who had ... Sati is an old Hindu custom, unfortunately still occasionally practiced ... Found inside – Page 47Since capture was viewed as a disgrace , it was only a short step until suicide was practiced also to avoid or atone for other kinds of disgrace , such as personal or family misdeeds . By the twelfth ... They prefer to call it seppuku . Like our ... Found inside – Page 96Yet the fact remains that the practice survived for many centuries , and Western eyewitness accounts from the nineteenth century confirm that samurai were indeed able to disembowel themselves without flinching . Seppuku survived as a ... Found insideThe Japanese ritual suicide of seppuku or hara-kiri has been historically practiced as an ... No, seppuku is still wrong, or at best a tragic last resort. Found inside – Page 12... in earnest under Poan , who was sheltered in Takayama Castle after his father Rikyû had been forced to commit seppuku by Hideyoshi . ... He then , together with his mother , practiced Zen meditation in Daitoku - ji , Kyoto , where he eventually took the tonsure . ... Today , Hida still preserves the traditional lacquer ware , or ShunkeiENRYÔ refered to a district under direct control of the Edo Shogunate . The book ends with a collection of quotations from authors and commentators down through the centuries, summing up both the Japanese attitude toward seppuku and foreigners' reactions- "As for when to die, make sure you are one step ahead of ... Found inside – Page 622The samurai practiced a code of conduct known as Bushido , which called for seppuku , or ritual suicide , if one were dishonored . The sword was still the ... 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