seppuku (samurai suicide)

My studies have revealed that "seppuku" refers to any righteous suicide by a samurai, and "hari-kiri" specifically refers to the "belly-cutting" which was the traditional ceremonial suicide. These images are photographs from my phone of a book bag I bought at the Comic Con. This image is extreme as well as extremely innacurate as the blade would not even go past the spinal cord. The goal was to slice open the belly and nothing more. To impale all the way through the back is simply ridiculous, although obviously quite dramatic.Wikipedia: Seppuku (Japanese: 切腹, "stomach-cutting" or "belly slicing") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku is also known in English as hara-kiri (腹切り) and is written with the same kanji as seppuku but in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, 'hara-kiri' is considered a somewhat vulgar term. The practice of committing seppuku at the death of one's master is known as oibara (追腹 or 追い腹) or junshi (殉死); the ritual is similar.