Good afternoon everyone, friends of Steemit. I recently visualized a film entitled in fact: "Harakiri" and I wanted to make a brief investigation of that ritual called in two versions: Harakiri and Seppuku. More than an act of suicide is an art in many ways in Japanese culture and samurai culture.
A subject that seduces even the least privileged, and attractive to the depressed, not in vain this ritual was not done on purpose by mental area, but rather for honor, respect and loyalty. The Harakiri is part of the bushido, the ethical code of the samurai, was done voluntarily to die with honor instead of falling into the hands of the enemy and being cruelly tortured, or for those people who had committed serious offenses or dishonor your homeland. Pertinently it was also done as an act of protest.
The ceremony is part of a more elaborate ritual that is usually performed in front of a certain number of spectators by nailing a weapon on the abdomen, making a cut from right to left. The objective was to create an ideogram drawn by the pits.
This ceremony is very well organized and elaborate, the samurai eats his last meal, he showers and dressed in white, he sits on his death cloth and then he composes his poem of death
The code of the samurai written by Tsumemoto in the seventeenth century said:
"the way of the samurai is death".
It was also described that under the womb resided the heat and the soul and that opening the suicide thus liberated his spirit. The term hara kiri, hara means both "belly" and "spirit", kiri "spirit" "courage" and "determination".
The last seppuku performed in public was in fact by the great poet Yukio Mishima, in the fourth general of the city of Tokyo. Said seppuku was made in the form of a protest against the government and about Japanese society culturalized to the new and common and forgetting the ancient roots.
To finish I'll leave a scene from the film Yukoku 憂国 (1966) to leave you a brief objectivity of what the ritual was like.
Thanks for reading!
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Very interesting post bro, good job!
Thx, bro
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