Four texts that discuss how the samurai carried out Seppuku, a ritual death in which a fellow samurai would usually behead another, have been translated into English for the first time. While the ...

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Like many places in Japan, the city of Matsue is proud of its local history, and also like many places in Japan, that local history involves samurai. Matsue is the prefectural capital of Shimane and ...