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Seppuku, a history of samurai suicide, Andrew Rankin

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Seppuku, a history of samurai suicide, Andrew Rankin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Seppuku

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1015813355

Responsibility statement

Andrew Rankin

Sub title

a history of samurai suicide

Summary

The history of seppuku -- Japanese ritual suicide by cutting the stomach, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri -- spans a millennium, and came to be favored by samurai as an honorable form of death. Here, for the first time in English, is a book that charts the history of seppuku from ancient times to the twentieth century through a collection of swashbuckling tales from history and literature. Author Andrew Rankin takes us from the first recorded incident of seppuku, by the goddess Aomi in the eighth century, through the "golden age" of seppuku in the sixteenth century that includes the suicides of Shibata Katsuie, Sen no Riky? and Toyotomi Hidetsugu, up to the seppuku of General Nogi Maresuke in 1912

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