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What would seppuku mean to a sumurai?

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its Japanese, its a Japanese ritual suicide by disbowlment, its usually reserved for a samurai and die with honor. seppuku is like plunging into the stomach and moving it left. practincing of committing suppuku to ones death of a master, known as oibara.

for more info about it go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku

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