Would you cut your belly ?  | | | |  I always wondered about Japanese warriors, they chose honor instead of life, if they were defeated they committed suicide, if they insulted their lords, they committed suicide, if they ashamed someone or themselves they committed suicide, it's not even a joke it's real !
I was thinking how many people would have the courage and chose to stick a blade in their bellies and cut it open !
Now the ritual is something like this, you take a bath, dress up, they serve you your favorite meal, then you sit down and take your wakizashi, a smaller blade than katana, you wrap a cloth on the middle of the blade, witch is on top of a wooden board, then you take the sword and stick it in your belly deep, then make a cut from left to right, spin it and go up, then you bend your head and someone from behind decapitates you, in all this time you are supposed to bear your pain and not show it on your face.
Now imagine yourself being a samurai, you ashamed yourself, and now you're expected to commit sepuku (hara kiri), no one MAKES you, it's your choice, would YOU do it ?
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| 1.  tigerlily1972 (274)
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2 years ago
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is this still practiced nowadays? i thought maybe it is only in movies or magazines... i have seen old chinese movies doing the same too. The common people as well as the warriors. But i want to believe it is only for the show .. not real thing.
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| | 3. Cutie18f (2465)
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2 years ago
| |  But that's too much. Killing one's self for having wronged or shamed someone is just too extreme. I will never do it. I will ask for forgiveness, kneel down, and kiss his a*s but kill myself, no.
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| | 4. rinzgca (239)
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2 years ago
| |  Yes, that is an interesting part of the culture of the Japanese. Not intending to demean this ancient ritual of samurais, but, I just realized something. Isn't it also cowardice when you end your life because of a wrong doing? It isn't really punishment, is it. It's just one way to get out of the wrong doing. An easy way out as they say. Wouldn't it be better if you bear the shame, and make up for it for your whole life? After all, a dead person isn't really valuable or beneficial to anyone. However, a live person can still do something for you.
To answer your question, if I was a Japanese during the time of the samurais, I probably will. Honor is very important to a Japanese. They are very loyal to their lords. Being a shame does not only affect how people would look at you but it would also affect how the people would look at your lord. Thus to end it all, you just end your life.
But if it were today and I am who I am, no I wouldn't. I will make amends. Even if I have to work for that person my whole life, I will.
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