seppuku

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As a result, I was more familiar with Mishima’s life — the turn to ultraright nationalism, the attempted coup and his ensuing death by seppuku — than with his art.

From New York Times

So, I commit first-date seppuku and tell him about my lens and my vision loss.

From Los Angeles Times

It takes everything the lord has left in him to prevent his Nagakado from blindly accepting Ishido’s order to commit seppuku over the cannon attack he ordered in Episode 4.

From New York Times

“I loved it. But it’d be committing theatrical seppuku to transfer it,” a theater critic mutters to another at the show’s after party.

From New York Times

Nobunaga ended his own life by performing seppuku, a ritual suicide.

From BBC