Craftstick Seppuku (Hara-kiri) Demo

Описание: The Seppuku with a Kaishakunin also known as Hara-kiri by Andre "Spike" Bitanga.

A form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment and execution. Originally reserved for Samurai as part of the Bushido honor code, Seppuku was used either voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies (and likely suffer torture) or as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offenses, or performed because they had brought shame to themselves. The ceremonial disembowelment, which was a elaborate ritual & performed infront of spectators, consists of plunging either the Tachi (longsword), Wakizashi (shortsword) or Tantō (knife) into the gut and slicing the stomach horizontally.  In the absence of a Kaishakunin, the Samurai would then remove the blade from his stomach, and stab himself in the throat, or fall (from a standing position) with the blade positioned against his heart. With his selected Kaishakunin standing by, he would open his kimono (robe), take up his tantō with a portion of cloth wrapped around so that it would not cut his hand and cause him to lose his grip. The Kaishakunin would then perform a cut in which the warrior was decapitated but traditionally only after the disembowelment & the tantō sheathed. METAL! 


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