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HAWT Halo Thar
I wanna die like this <3
>> RE@L !!CXJ7I9RiX1h
Fail! Because women makes seppuku on their neck!!!!!
>> Anonymous
Who Cares....shes hot..both of them
>> Que?
Is there a source to this? I'd love to find out why a naked chick is commiting seppuku and the other girl helping is also... totally naked. Or did I just miss the bit where females in japan must commit seppuku in the nude >_>
>> Anonymous
yeah, that's a new thing they decided to do. Dishonors their family if they don't do it in the nude. They'll never live it down. or die it down. or whatever.

as long as we're nit-picking, the head wasn't supposed to come clean off. The swordsman was supposed to leave a small flap of skin on the neck to keep it from rolling around.
>> Anonymous
>>281048
Further nitpick: 2 strokes, one across, one upwards pointing along the first, before the beheading. But yeah, flap of skin as well.
>> Anonymous
>>280939

nope. In fact they used to tie their legs together so they'd die gracefully and not with their legs splayed out like some whore.
>> San Groku
>>280939

Juan Gotoh made it
>> Anonymous
>>280877
grab a knife and have at it.
>> Anonymous
SOURCE
>> Anonymous
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longer, hawter version

you get to see her decapitated head roll around and take a few breaths before actually dying
>> Anonymous
Emo suicide! LOL.
>> Anonymous
That's good, release your soul from your stomage.
>> Anonymous
honestly, how the hell did this stuff come about in Japan? How could such an abstract concept as honor have that big of an impact on one's life; so big that you are willing, and ENCOURAGED by society to kill yourself over it?
>> Anonymous
>>281222

It only became weird and EMO later. In the beggining it was a fairly practical afair. You killed yourself because if you were captured you'd be tortured, humilated and then executed.
So you made sure to off yourself it it looked like you were going to be captured, kind of a big "fuck you!" to the enemy. People generally just stabbed themselves though the Taira clan drowned themselves enmasse, a few people put swords intheir mouths and lept off their horses. And one supreme stud allegedly cut his own head off.

Ladies under duress and needing to kill themselves quickly might stab each other to death if their male relatives didn't kill them first before their own seppuku.
Later, it became a way of attoning for an unforgivable mistake or a way of protesting an order or shame you felt was unbearable. (The former was along the lines of "look what you made me do." the later, well don't underestimate the value of face in Japan, being shunned is incredibly stressful.)

There is sort of a Hagekure-ish theme about dying well and a beautiful death. (Yoshio Mishima in particular was obsessed with this concept.) You have a sub-theme Shinju, the love suicide where the lovers choose to be together in death because they can't be together in life.
This on the other hand is just someone's sick guro fantasy, and not very good at that. You're supposed to have mad passionate sex with your squeeze *before* you kill yourself to have that one moment of nirvana before you fall like a cherry blossom. Not worthy of the Samurai death cult by a long shot. :p
>> Anonymous
>>281244
.....whoa.
>> Anonymous
>>281244
That IS the truth, doesn't change that its cowardice, you kill yourself to avoid capture? Come on now, wheres your immortal spirit, I thought the whole point of the japanese warriors was their bravery, guess I was mislead huh? Being shamed worse then death, someone needs to reasess their priorities.
>> Anonymous
isnt it just a suicide but with the help of another. They kill u after u cut urself so they dont take the blame for killing u but only relinquishing from ur pain
>> Anonymous
>come on now, wheres your immortal spirit, I thought the whole point of the japanese warriors was their bravery, guess I was mislead huh?

Well, that's because you're an ethnocentric little christian idiot who has demonstrably no knowledge of what he's ignorantly pontificating about.

And personaly, I don't like having my ears nose cut off, having molten copper poured on me or being boiled to death for some Daimyo's sick, twisted amusement. Stab myself to death or endure the devious tortures of a feudal warlord and then die. Gee, real HARD choice there.

>Being shamed worse then death, someone needs to reasess their priorities.

Being shamed historically meant severe social isolation which could lead to depression and as a consequence, suicide. A 'noble' suicide could remove the taint of your shame from your Uchi (group) and spare them your disgrace. It's a bit like amputating a limb to keep the disease from spreading. Seppuku was the ultimate apology and forgiveness was given to your memory and your family's Kao. (face, 'honor' is a bit misleading. 'Kao' is how the Japanese themselves term it.)

Yes, it was a dysfunctional practice. You had things like Junshi where retainers would follow their lord into death. The practice was specifcally banned because it tended to gut the clan.

It was part of a larger dysfunctional society. If society expects you to kill yourself, chances are you may have to particularly if the alternative is worse.

Some people killed themselves for personal reasons. Typically these suicides were looked down upon as being weak or pathetic.
>> Anonymous
>>281382
And like everything it was missused too, like talking someone you want out of your way into commiting seppuku

You can understand it if you read books like Inazô Nitobe's "Bushido"
>> KazeKage
>>280877

I CAME!
>> Anonymous
suicide and gore fetish... LAME
>> cat lady
>>281382
i agree, and also, to all you lil catholic/christian ppls dat think this is sick, at least they can die gracefully