Act of the day - Seppuku
Kategori: Livet
"Seppuku (切腹?, "stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku was originally reserved only forsamurai. Part of the samurai bushido honor code, seppuku was either used 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 for other reasons that had brought shame to them. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the abdomen and moving the blade from left to right in a slicing motion."
The more you know~
Not only do I find this to be one of the coolest, most honourable ways to go - it makes a pretty neat picture too.
As for the word of the day we are looking at a brand new word today that is perhaps more connected to the capital punishment kind of Seppuku.
Mephistophelian
adj : showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil;
"devilish schemes"; the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen";
"the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"
