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>>81949306
That's literally how you sudoku. You stab yourself in the gut and then another bloke chops your head off so you don't suffer the agonising pain of having a sword in your guts for too long.

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>>81949306
>why you would behead a samurai after watching him commit harakiri

>>81949306
stabbing yourself in the stomach doesn't cause immediate death, but it's part of the ritual

>>81949517
I though it was that if you scream or wince before disemboweling yourself (dying), they behead you.

Being behesded is dishonorable in Japanese culture.

>>81950797

>I though it was that if you scream or wince before disemboweling yourself (dying), they behead you.

no

>Being behesded is dishonorable in Japanese culture.

You don't know what the fuck you're talking about and need to stop

>>81949306

Since you are an ignorant gaijin you could not be expected to understand that the ghost is acting as his kaishakunin. I will explain;

First, the kaishakunin sits down in the upright (seiza) position, or remains standing, at the left side of the person about to commit seppuku, at a prudent distance but close enough to be reached with his sword (katana) at the appropriate time.

If seated, the kaishakunin will rise slowly, first on his knees, then stepping with the right foot while drawing the katana very slowly and silently and standing up in the same fashion (keeping in mind that the opponent (teki) is not an enemy, but rather a fellow samurai). If the kaishakunin was in a standing stance, he will draw his sword slowly and silently as well. In both cases, after the sword is out of the scabbard (saya), he will raise it with the right hand and wait for the seppuku to begin. Some classic (koryū) Iaido styles, like the Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū school, establish this "waiting stance" as the kaishakunin having taken one step back with the right foot, katana behind his head parallel to the floor held with the right hand, left hand holding the scabbard in the proper (sayabiki) position; other styles, like Musō Shinden-ryū, establish that the katana is to be held vertically, parallel to the body, held in the right hand, the left hand resting at the kaishakunin side, feet together. In any case, the kaishakunin will always keep eye contact with the samurai performing seppuku, and waiting for his cut (kiri) through his abdomen (hara).

>>81950876

When the samurai actually performs the seppuku, and after he returns the dagger (tantō) back to its place, the kaishakunin steps forward, letting the katana drop straight through the back of the neck of the dying samurai. Just before making contact, the kaishakunin grips the handle (tsuka) with both hands, giving precision to the katana's blade and strength to the downward cut (kiritsuke). The final cut must be controlled in order to reach only half the neck of the samurai; the kaishaku, leaving the required skin to hold the head attached to the samurai's body, was performed by a single slashing/withdrawing motion of the katana. The complete cut-slash-withdraw motion is called daki-kubi.

After the dead samurai falls, the kaishakunin, with the same slow, silent style used when unsheathing the katana, shakes the blood off the blade (a movement called chiburi) and returns the katana to the scabbard (a movement called noto), while kneeling towards the fellow samurai's dead body. When this is completed, the kaishakunin remains kneeling for a while, as a sign of deep respect to the fallen samurai who committed the ritual suicide, always in a state of "total awareness" (zanshin) before standing up and bowing (rei) to his body.

>>81950820
Calm down sperg, I wasn't stating anything or implying you were wrong.

Congratulations, you're an expert in how to kill yourself, with that attitude maybe you should get on with it.

That episode had a hell of a time setting it's tone

bwahaha stupid nips

>>81950894
Why is it important that the sword not cut through the nexk leaving the head attached .

>>81951032
So it doesn't roll into a ditch

>>81951032

If you do it perfectly, and he does it perfectly, the skin flap that is left attacked makes the head fall forward and down and end up in his hands. So he is holding his own head.

>>81951092
This.

They shit in ditches over there.

>>81950920
Nah you got told lil bitch

>>81949306
>weaboos tripping over each other in response to baneposting