切せっ腹ぷく

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment

Refers to the formal Japanese ritual suicide by cutting the abdomen, historically practiced by samurai to restore honor or avoid capture.

• 武ぶ士しは主しゅ君くんへの忠ちゅう誠せいを示しめすために切せっ腹ぷくした。

  The samurai committed seppuku to show loyalty to his lord.

• 切せっ腹ぷくは江え戸ど時じ代だいに制せい度ど化かされた。

  Seppuku was institutionalized in the Edo period.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

seppuku as a death penalty; judicial seppuku

Historical term for seppuku carried out as a formal death penalty, where the condemned was decapitated by a second as they made the motions to disembowel themselves; specific to the Edo period.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、切せっ腹ぷくが刑けい罰ばつとして用もちいられることがあった。

  In the Edo period, seppuku was sometimes used as a form of punishment.