This led to a meeting between Toranaga and Ishido, during which a young samurai named Tadayoshi ended up asking permission to commit seppuku. The historical epic Shgun was originally billed as a ...

As the first foreign-born samurai, Yasuke fought important battles ... Nobunaga ended his own life by performing seppuku, a ritual suicide. Before he killed himself, he asked Yasuke to decapitate ...

Regular Skill Useable on swords as well as polearms capable of thrusting (small and colossal weapons excepted). A forbidden technique used by swordsmen from the Land of Reeds. Plunge the blade ...

Plunge the blade into your stomach to stain it with blood. Increases attack power and improves ability to inflict blood loss. This skill causes you to thrust your weapon into your stomach ...

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 ...