The Japanese word "seppuku" — commonly known as "harakiri" among Turks — translates to stomach cutting, and it is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide.
In the past, only the samurai class was allowed to perform seppuku as a part of the bushido tradition, meaning the way of the warrior. Samurai used to prefer to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies and be tortured and killed. Seppuku was abolished in after the Meiji restoration, which enabled the emergence of Japan as a modernized and westernized nation. However, voluntary seppuku has been practiced since then. According to Japanese culture, if a person does something wrong that can tarnish his honor or can harm other people, it is quite normal to commit suicide even today — not unlike the traditional seppuku way by cutting the stomach.
But they also represent human mortality. They are beautiful and short-lived, only lasting a few days. Unlike other flowers, cherry flowers shed their petals at the height of their beauty without discoloring, withering and dying. The Japanese believe that people are trained to die with honor and beauty just like cherry blossoms.
The extreme beauty and quick death of the cherry blossoms are associated with the life of an honorable person. In the novel, Under the Blood-Red Sun, the author Graham Salisbury tells a story from the perspective of Tomikazu Nakaji, a young Japanese-American boy and his struggles with racism and becoming the man of his family.
After the attack, the suspicions and biased racism of the non-immigrant Americans is raised, which lead to the wrongful arrests of Tomikazu's father and grandfather.
This resulted with him having to get a job, take care of his family, and. The Lie of Bushido in The Hidden Blade Two samurai face each other, both bound by a code of honor to fight to the death. This code is Bushido the ancient honor system of the samurai. It emphasized eight important virtues that all samurai must live by. These virtues include Rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, honesty, honor, loyalty, and character. Any failure to follow these virtues resulted in the need to commit seppuku or Hara-kiri, which was honorable suicide.
The Hidden Blade demonstrates. This started very early in their history. The social controls used to eliminate diversity are the family, the power of gender, the poor treatment of minority groups, the corporate Japanese mentality, and the respect required by people in authority.
However, due to globalization and the shrinking of the world, Japanese society is starting to make the change to diversity. The individualistic mentality shared by. To say the Japanese culture value family is an understatement. To say they value honor is a no brainer. In the past the Japanese valued honor, now they call it saving face in our modern times.
The code also regulated the relationship between warriors and the rest of the society, which — according to the samurai philosophy — should be based on strictly defined relations of power and serfdom. Bushido was passed orally from generation to generation, never written down.
Perhaps this is why it became so imprinted on the minds of the Japanese and permanently influenced their special culture. The shape and content of the unwritten code changed because of inaccurate oral communications; still, its assumptions are summarised in 7 basic rules. They showed the warriors how to reach corporeal and spiritual perfection. It is the basic rule that applies to the personality and behaviour of a warrior.
Samurai fought with complete commitment because they believed that their deeds were blessed and that their strength was of divine origin. To understand the Yuuki rule, we must take a look at the original notation of the Japanese word and at the kanji characters that form it.
Yuu means courage, heroism, while ki can be translated as the mind or the spirit. The idea of bravery was strongly connected with rectitude and justice. Cowardly warriors had to suffer condemnation and criticism. On the other hand, the deeds of courageous heroes went down in history, with the heroes becoming role models for the next generations. A samurai was not an ordinary man. Intensive training made him fast, nimble and strong. However, the skills he continuously developed were to be useful for all, especially for the weak and oppressed, and opponents also deserved mercy and respect.
A warrior did not take a life of a weaker man if the latter deserved saving but whoever surrendered and shamed himself could not count on his mercy. Despite the strictness of the whole process, children were taught to be sensitive to beauty, art and the surrounding nature. It is an idea taken from Confucianism. A warrior had to be perfect not only on a battlefield. He was also expected be a role model for other citizens.
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