From the daily newsletter: a selection of Yukio Mishima novels. Plus: Emily Witt on the L.A. wildfires; Justin Chang’s Oscars ...

When the soldiers, instead of rising up, jeered at him, Mishima killed himself in the classic samurai fashion: performing hara-kiri, or seppuku (as the Japanese more commonly call it), by plunging ...

A common misconception about this build is that you need to put points into Arcane, but this stat doesn’t scale with Seppuku, the primary Ash of War choice for the Blood Loss Samurai.

Depending on how you’re discovered and how bad your actions were, you may have to commit seppuku or even face having your whole family executed, which ends the game. Way of the Samurai has its ...

The life and death of acclaimed writer Yukio Mishima is a cautionary reminder of the complex, sometimes dangerous ...

At once a steely samurai, a loyal servant ... she claims it an offense against her lord and prepares to perform seppuku. Anna Sawai’s performance throughout this ceremony is breathtaking.

It is said he built it only for his sworn friend (at the time), samurai and daimyō Toyotomi ... In 1591, Rikyū was ordered to commit seppuku as punishment by Hideyoshi. Tea rooms built by ...