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sep·pu·ku  (sp-k, s-p-)
n.
Ritual suicide by disembowelment formerly practiced by Japanese samurai. Also called hara-kiri.

[Japanese : setsu, to cut (from Middle Chinese tshet) + fuku, stomach, abdomen (from Middle Chinese fuwk).]

seppuku [sɛˈpuːkuː]
n
(Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) another word for hara-kiri
[from Japanese, from Chinese ch`ieh to cut + fu bowels]
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Noun1.seppuku - ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide - the act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit suicide"
Nihon, Nippon, Japan - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building


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Then, in a carefully staged event, Mishima committed seppuku, plunging a ceremonial dagger into his abdomen while, almost simultaneously, his assistant beheaded him.
A Japanese right-wing nationalist stabbed himself in the stomach Monday outside the parliament building in an apparent suicide attempt by ritual seppuku disembowelment, police said.
Teenagers held off the unremitting boredom of it all by break-dancing in groups while this reporter ruminated on whether volunteering to cover a never-ending pop concert held in a car park was a form of Seppuku.
 
 
 
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