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切腹 [spec2,news2,nf36]
【せっぷく [spec2,news2,nf36] 】

[n,vs]
▶ seppuku
▶ harakiri
▶ [expl] ritual suicide by disembowelment

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 1501220 腹切り【はらきり】 1. harakiri; seppuku; ritual suicide by disembowelment
	⇐ see: 2846912 扇腹【おうぎばら】 1. fan seppuku; death penalty for samurai in which the condemned performs a symbolic disembowelment with a fan before being decapitated
	⇐ see: 2846993 扇子腹【せんすばら】 1. fan seppuku; death penalty for samurai in which the condemned performs a symbolic disembowelment with a fan before being decapitated

[n,vs] [hist]
▶ seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

Conjugations

History:

5.	A 2020-10-09 11:36:45 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Mishima did disembowel himself before being decapitated, and he wasn't sentenced to it, so it's sense 1. I was considering adding a note to sense 1 about decapitation by a second oft. being part of the package, but daij don't, so I too left it out. I think the main difference is that sense 2 can't actually be called a "suicide".
4.	A 2020-10-09 10:54:31 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Hmmm. Really two senses? Mishima's death was the sense 2 variety, but it wasn't a "death penalty".
3.	A* 2020-10-09 09:36:12 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	daijs 自ら腹を切ろうとするところを... daijr 切腹は形だけで実際は背後から介錯かいしやく人が首をはねた。
	Comments:	sense 1 is older - Heian - but not strictly hist, unlike sense 2. (unless sense 2 still is a thing in the yakuza...)
	Diff:	@@ -22,0 +23,6 @@ +<sense> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<pos>&vs;</pos> +<misc>&hist;</misc> +<gloss>seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)</gloss> +</sense>
2.	A 2018-02-27 23:45:43 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1.	A* 2018-02-27 23:39:26 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -19,2 +18,0 @@ -<gloss>ritual suicide</gloss> -<gloss>disembowelment</gloss> @@ -22,0 +21 @@ +<gloss g_type="expl">ritual suicide by disembowelment</gloss>

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