Ritual Suicides in Feudal Japan (416 words, 1 pages)
Ritual Suicides During feudal Japan (1192-1868) ritual suicides played an important part of the code of bushido and the discipline of the samurai warrior class. Seppuku is the Japanese formal name for ritual suicides and hara-kiri is the common language term. Hara-kiri, which literally means, "stomach cutting", is a very ...
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