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Bushido : The Soul of Japan
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Author: Nitobé Inazo
Year: 2001
To begin with suicide, let me state that I confine my observations only to seppuku or kappuku, popularly known as hara-kiri – which means self-immolation by disembowelment. "Ripping the abdomen? How absurd!" – so cry those to whom the name is new. Absurdly odd as it may sound at first to foreign ears... whoever has heard the swansong that Addison makes Cato sing, will not jeer at the sword half-buried in the abdomen.
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