seppuku

Now, my readers will understand that hara-kiri, or seppuku, was not a mere suicidal process.

The glorification of seppuku offered, naturally enough, no small temptation to its unwarranted committal.

More usually the Japanese themselves speak of hara-kiri by its Chinese synonym, Seppuku.

Hara-kiri, or seppuku, is the term applied to suicide among the samurai class.