切腹

せっぷくseppuku

noun · suru verb · intransitive

  1. seppuku
  2. harakiri
  3. ritual suicide by disembowelment
  4. seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

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