Death with Honor? Behind the Myths of Seppuku

Seppuku has been a popular theme in Japan's literature and theatre for yea

Seppuku During the 1500s: The Development of Honorable Death In the 1500s, the practice of seppuku, or ritual suicide, became a formal part of

seppuku And seppuku is historically primarily a corporal punishment for warrior nobles if we exclude the cases in war (The alternative was

seppuku In James Clavell's Shōgun novel, Blackthorne attempting to commit seppuku happens much earlier in the narrative · Co-showrunner Rachel Kondo