@Tyler M23it's an old Viking death penalty method where they cut two incisions on the backside of a victim. after that, they dig their hands in and pull out the lungs and let them hand out through those incisions to show an eagle spreading its 'wings'. that's why it is called the Blood Eagle.
Could you imagine that having not just your own personal honor but the honor of your family over your head going into battle bet it made them fight for more than just them selves
@@NeutralGuyDoubleZero I didn't say we should take it up. I just said what it was. I'd rather not have to kill myself because my brother lost a fight or watch my teacher get his head partially chopped off because he felt he couldn't teach the class.
It's not a gg. It's a I lost and gave my family/clan shame, and there is no reason to conform to another way of life in another clan so they killed themselves
You clearly didn't pay attention or actually watch the video if you think that sending the guys head rolling was actually the goal of the ritual suicide.
Dimitri Kvasha He doesn’t think that, he meant it like this - “imagine you cut open your stomach and not show any reaction (doing it perfectly) only to have the assistant fuck up and send your head rolling (messing the whole ritual up and shaming you and himself)”
reading the first poem had me tearing up realizing these words were written right before a man took his life. thanks for providing this information dude! i love learning about Asian culture.
Fun Fact: Today’s Samurai have developed from Seppuku into even more interesting views, arousing sleeping spirits of Samurai all around the world ever since, the way of Hentai,
If my family was depending on me to not dishonor the family name then I'm sad to say that they're outta luck. I'm just not capable of spilling my own guts.
@@anthonyfox585 dishonor isn't b.s. and your family has no obligations to loving you regardless. Seppuku really is extreme, however your outlook is also just as wrong
Wait wait wait WAIT So a guy commits seppuku but the guy who would cut his head botched and in turn WANTED to commit seppuku and also botched. So it can be chain reaction?
Takemata Hideshige was so bitter about losing to Shibata Katsuie that he basically said he was going to be reincarnated so he could take Katsuie's head. I am not sure I would have mentioned the guy I just lost to in my death poem.
The current music link has been taken down, so for those of you who are interested the first song used in this video is called "Tea Ceremony" by Brandon & Derek Fletcher
@Mooly Stankiss Before you're going to call him a coward--did it come to mind whether or not you will actually do it when it happens? It's not uncommon in human nature to talk and act tough about a scenario until they're actually experiencing it themselves. Doubt either of us here are any different.
Hear here dude, few dont know what honor and dignity is, especially these days... The more time passes the more our society's forget what honor is and anyone who trys to just gets looked down upon, its sad realy
Love your channel man, I enjoy listening to it while I’m at work and I appreciate the research done on the videos to especially the ones that don’t have much information recorded through history. Maybe for Japan you could do a video on the Yamabushi to go with the Sohei video.
It reminds me of a German who apparently worked as a contract killer. He was caught, but didn't say a word to the cops and in prison he managed to commit suicide by drinking bleach, cutting his wrists and hanging himself... Apparently that impressed his former employer so much that his family gained financial support through dubious sources...
@@reynaldiwidjaja277 Oddly enough, I was reminded today of another German that committed suicide as the honorable way and in his case I do know the name. There was a famous General in the Wehrmacht that got involved in an assassination attempt against Hitler and rather than torturing him to death, like they had done countless times before, he was offered to commit suicide and as the icing on the cake, his reputation shall remain untarnished and his family unpersecuted and supported as if he died in combat. Do you know the name of the general?
I always found the Japanese attitudes towards suicide quite noble. I never thought of suicide as shameful. However, I do not necessarily agree with the... almost flippant need to commit suicide over just about every dishonor. It should be reserved for when there is no choice, no way out.
Mate, most of these dudes were random warriors and mercenaries who were given land and titles in return for helping their lords. If the punishment for dishonor weren't so severe, they'd quickly lose their value to their lords. Samurai were mercenaries turned noblemen. And lords were the true noblemen. So they needed to keep them strictly in-line and basically threaten them with destroying their families at the smallest offense.
@@PrettyPrincess2614 It is good and noble to think of failure and dishonor as unacceptable. In contrast to the West which has become corrupt with such, and coupled with a fear of death.
This is so fascinating. It’s crazy but at the same time I’m fascinated at how neatly organized they all were in their roles while performing the ritual
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French Ambassador: Dude your warriors killed my friends, wtf! Japanese Ruler: My b fam, on it *normal tradition of atonement takes place* French Ambassador: Yooooooooo chill out, like please dog. That shit crazy.
It was also seen as a sign of respect to the Japanese ruler when ordered to do this action and was taken very seriously the act was seen as a dignified way to face death for a samurai seppuku was one of the most honourable things a samurai could ever do as their final act in life and not something that they ever took lightly it also showed true honour and courage without any fear of death they were extremely brave warriors in battle going to this extent of taking their own life rather than being taken as a prisoner of war it’s very brave
Frenchman: I demand Justice!! Samurai: Hai *Group of Samurais taking turn committing Seppuku* Frenchman: Mon dieu! For the love of God, pardon the poor souls! Samurai: Hai. YAMERU! *remaining samurais stop* These people.
@@markuhler2664 actually that's an interesting thought, in that scenario would they still be a disgrace to themselves and their families for not being able to go through with the seppuku?
"lie a rotten log half burred in the ground- my life ,which has not flowered come to this sad end" I like to think this mans life did flower and the poem is the fruit left for us
I’m converting to Shinto...and going out like this. I love that it wasn’t viewed as “the person passed away” but as “They achieved death.” That’s badass.
That's very much something I'd figure "KidofSteel036" would say. At least you didn't capitalize the "of". Seriously though. Chill out. We aren't in an age of warinf tribes between a single homogeneous nation, dawg.
@@lindyxyo4254 Your comment shows what's wrong with modernity though. Yeah we don't live in an age of "warring tribes" (they didn't either, Edo period was period of tranquility), we live in a barbarian age where people die of obesity or cancer in their beds, living meaningless spiritual-less lives. It's the age of materialistic hebraic American global capitalism. For such a man as OP to look into spirituality, Shinto, Buddhism (I advise this, esp Zen Buddhism) and digging deeper into the existence of life, is a very noble endeavour. You will not do that and live a meaningless cattle like life, fed on American fast food, Netflix, low attention span, and die a meaningless death, having lived a meaningless life. I urge you to reconsider, develop a higher IQ, and examine the finer mysteries of life.
@@Bahamut998I respect this comment , and I’m guilty of partaking in a lot of the meaningless stuff you’ve mentioned . & I’m trying to find more in life but very cynical. What is it about all of this and “spirituality” that makes life more meaningful? Do you end up doing the same everyday tasks as everyone else but mentally, you’re on another level where you’ve achieved peace or happiness? I’m very interested in it and want to learn more because right now I feel like it’s all meaningless no matter how you go about it or live your life
Those death poems got me doing a big think for real. I'm gonna go find more, thank you for introducing me to this fascinating, if quite morbid, subject.
So sad. You explained this very good. I learned new information about the soul in the abdomen, which is why the laceration is done there. Excellent video. I am enjoying your channel so much.
"Yeah ok you do have a stable job, a girlfriend that loves you and the support of several very good friends, but your grandpa did kinda flinch while committing sepukku soooo..."
Apparently in the story of 47 Ronin when the head Samurai Ayoshi was laying low for 2 years in Tokyo before they made their attack, the story goes he knew he had spies following him & in order to get them off his back he walked around the bars as a drunk all day & night. One day he was passed out on the street & a man spit on him saying he was not worthy to be a samurai. Once they finally carried out their attack, this same man heard of it & travelled to Ayoshi’s grave to apologize, & also committed seppuku right there at his headstone 😳😳
When you read about Seppuku and see it in films and study it, it’s almost as though the actual physical side of the act is made to seem like it’s something that can inherently be done and it’s the mental courage and willpower to inflict excruciating pain unto yourself and then dying that’s the really hard part. Which yes that is extremely hard to commit to, but actually physically pressing a blade into your stomach through all that tough skin and fat and veins and stomach lining is tough let alone getting it deep enough to be fatal. I think anyone from today who attempts seppuku comes out realizing “Damn those Samurai were some tough fuckers”
Something to keep in mind however, is they used special Seppuku blades which were extremely sharp. They sliced through flesh like butter. So if you did the correct Seppuku technique, you wouldn't be cutting with difficulty.
Sexy Tomato No, they were not. Seppuku is generally defeatist in nature, and intended only to give one an honorable death and being honor to the bereaved family. Kamikaze attacks were an offensive strategy, focused less on bringing one’s self honor and more on destroying one’s enemies while simultaneously displaying an utmost sense of dedication to the Emperor, to one’s family, and to one’s homeland. It of course was also a very honorable way to die at the time. Sacrificing one’s self to hopefully help stop a nearly unstoppable foe is... Perhaps one of the best ways a warrior could die. If not the best. In any case, it would bring a sense of peace to the family, to know that the husband and father they lost, died as a hero of the highest order, and voluntarily, rather than being defeated in battle and proven to be the inferior. Though in modern warfare, a man who kills another man and emerged as a victor... really has little to credit himself for. He merely had to pull a trigger, and happened to get lucky enough not to be hit first. In the times of the samurai, he who was victorious could be assumed to have been victorious due to his own superiority with the sword rather than due to mere luck. And therefore he who was defeated would also prove to be the inferior. That was something of a shameful title. Though it was certainly not the most dishonorable of deaths to die in battle. By all means it was far preferable to being captured and executed, and preferable to dying peacefully on a bedside.
Commander Rockwell Then they got horrendously fucked up. Not so honorable now and a complete and utter fail in strategy. Kamikaze strikes should only be done when losing hard. That way you can hit the enemy hard up until the last breath of your army. Now it makes it look like some of the pilots had a chance of surviving the horrors to keep providing for their families and country.
Commander Rockwell kamikaze was defeatist in nature, and only really became common after the tide had turned against Japan in the war. It was viewed as a last ditch effort to do as much damage as you could before your life ended
@@t.b.cont. You could look at it as defeatist in nature, or you could look at it from a strategic standpoint. One plane for one aircraft carrier (at best) are some pretty good odds. Plus it causes terror in your enemies, cause you were a crazy bastard and your squadmates are too. Kind of makes you wonder what would have happened if we didn't drop the bombs on em. Every single man, woman and child would have fought to the death in some crazy ways and millions more would've died as a result on both sides.
“... industrialization is the number one cause for life expectancy to have doubled since antiquity.” *Japanese Warriors killing themselves at 20 because their lord lost a single battle*
I was instead pondering on the situation and wondering how well it would go. Not that I'd like to die this way, but just the fact that there are so many cultural elements of honour related to it.
Excellent video, especially on a topic so foreign to the modern western mind. It's hard to appreciate the dignity & reasoning of why someone, especially a warrior & lord who has fought his whole career, would commit seppuku.
I remember that Morita incident in 1970. It was at the end pages of look magazine. I was a little kid but it was so weird seeing his head on the carpet. In 1567 there was sepukku, now there are sensitivity training clinics.
I love samurai history but a lot of people have to realize the samurai were anything but honorable, even in Seppuku. Junshi was especially a sad aspect of seppuku and just a loss of life (for those who don't know, junshi is when a lord's retainers would commit seppuku in order to follow them in death)
Hope the video he does make has that in it. Do read a lot but it is great when the video has things like that in them or linked videos to get the whole story.
Respectful. Full of honor. No need to judge them by the way they live. I was going to do this as a child had no idea it was a thing. No I'm 39 with a man bun. It makes sense to me now. Japanese have my respect.
I’ve been thinking a recently about this particular custom; and I never fully understood why they would throw their lives away because of failure or their very subjective view of honor, but I’ve actually come to understand it more completely. People want their protectors to do their jobs right for them: to protect and serve as well as preserve peace. Titles like “hero” are established for those who are successful at accomplishing these feats in such a magnificent way. However, when said protectors fail or do not perform their duty exactly the way everyone wants them to, they are shamed and cast out, even when they were trying to do the right thing. This is actually the real scenario that all those who protect and serve face. When soldier from Vietnam returned from war, they didn’t exactly get any appreciation beyond whatever the government gave them since a lot of what happened over there was not exactly justified. Same with police officers today who are being hated on even when most of them did nothing wrong. If a cop happens to shoot someone exactly the way they were trained to given a specific situation, it doesn’t matter to anyone else since the culprit was someone who happened to committing the crime was of a particular demographic. To quote the Dark Knight: “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain”. If anything, the Japanese and their custom of Seppuku was ahead of its time socially speaking. Point is, if you die protecting people they’ll honor you, but if you survive they don’t give that much of a crap about you. Not to say it’s not worth doing, but no good dead goes unpunished. At least not when it comes to the big picture stuff. This ancient custom may take it to the extreme, but it does kind of prove the point that it’s easier to die protecting than to live with the result of those actions. Sad, but true.
Basically you are correct, however I must point out that there are many instances of Samurai surviving their initial cut and NOT being allowed to continue. There are instances of Samurai literally living days in agony (some as long as 3 days) as this was considered ritualistic pain to bring on a sense of dignity and endurance to pay for one's transgressions. On an interesting side note, you mentioned religious extremism that some in the West committed suicide. However, the Roman Catholic Pope was a member of a group called Agnus Dei who practiced ritualistic flogging of the body. It was said Pope John Paul II regularly flogged himself as the pain he said, brought him closer to God's message and intent. It is an ancient practice and I wouldn't be surprised if it did indeed have it's roots in Asia. Ritual pain IS known to be practiced for religion, penance, and to ask forgiveness for one's mistakes.
The Japanese Imperial Army is very notorious and brutal in WWII because of their Bushido Code. It is very hard to face your enemy if they are willing to fight to death and commit suicide.
Truly sad....i know they saw it as a holy way to die but i cant help feel grief over this...how many last moments were filled with the struggle to not scream in agony while their guts fell out? How many suffered from an ill-fated strike from their assistant...how many paid for their singular mistake, with their lives? Their wives...my god those poor women..
During the Meiji Restoration, seppuku was the form of execution employed for high court officials who screwed up in some way. The "subject" was NOT required to actually disembowel himself, however; after going through the ceremony, he would pass a fan across his belly, to give himself a token "cut", and would then be beheaded
I find this type of tradition is extremely harsh and backwards by modern standards. During the Feudal Age, they do not retreat, instead, the Samurai acted themselves that are expendables, even if they survived and avoid captured, they' commit suicide by not bringing shame to their family instead to improve themselves to learn from their mistakes. In WW2, many Japanese Commanders and Officers committed suicide just because they failed their objectives, they did the same like the Samurai's did in the feudal era, instead of improving, they acted as expendables again.
You’re glossing over the fact that citizens did this suicide shit too. It’s an undeniable fact that had Japan not developed this stupid suicide culture, President Truman would have not authorized the atomic bombings.
It wasn’t backwards by modern standards. It was backwards by medieval standards. Japanese idea of warfare is clearly cultural & calling the name of one enemy & where he’s from & challenging that person to 1v1 combat during a chaotic battle is clearly Japanese. The only other places that had a history of single combat during a middle of a battle was in Europe & the Middle East, but that was rare & happened to avoid further bloodshed during a stalemate. David & Goliath is the most famous example of a duel that broke the stalemate between the armies of the Israelites & Philistines. During the first Mongol invasion there was a stalemate. Many Japanese samurai challenged the Mongols to the honorable tradition of single combat, but their challenges were answered by arrows & explosives... Many Japanese clans were able to change their “outdated” tactics after the initial skirmish. The Mongols & Americans didn’t care about honor & cultural values of the Samurai... they only give a damn about forcing the Japanese into submission, either through an invasion or nuclear bombardment.
@@kinglouiev9530 The idea of Samurai honor was just a way to keep these warriors blindly loyal to their lords and ensure that they don't go rogue. If a samurai wants his family to have a good life, he better die for his lord or kill himself if that fails, or they'll be dishonored meaning that they'll be stripped of their titles and estates, and return to being peasants. Samurai is just the Japanese equivalent for a mercenary turned nobleman and given estate. It can all be stripped back, so they use dumb concepts like honor to keep them subjugated even in death.
Emajenus I knew that. I’ve had to do research on Shintoism for mythology class when I was in high school... not because I’m a weeb who runs like a “ninja” from Naruto.
The quote "Had I known that I was alreadt dead" is the same quote that was left in a supposed suicide note from a very controversial disappearance of woman who's truck was found abandoned in Alaska, yet her body never was found....... Very eerie to say the least. Someone would've had to have fore-knowledge of this quote in order to write the suicide note, and leave it in her truck. She was a member and slave of the Nexium cult.
The japanese culture put a very high importance on honor, for if history remembers you, it will be by your (dis)honorable deeds. Those are tied to your family’s name, and which is why your relatives will share yours and vice-versa. Ninjas (dishonorable samurais) have a very complicated status within that culture
Ninja's weren't dishonourable samurais dude, they were completely disconnected to samurais altogether. To be a shinobi, you didn't even have to be a samurai
Ninjas were often just commoners. Not samurai. Their lives meant nothing. Samurai had concepts of honor because their whole lives were dedicated to fighting and serving their lords. Ninjas were not meant to kill as much as they were to gather intelligence although they were of course trained to kill as well
Not being able to cry scream/shout while putting a knife through your stomach damn
You didn't just stab yourself. You stabbed in and pulled it across
Must require an extreme amount of mental toughness.
If vikings shouted or cried during the blood eagle they were said to not be able to enter Valhalla
@Tyler M23it's an old Viking death penalty method where they cut two incisions on the backside of a victim. after that, they dig their hands in and pull out the lungs and let them hand out through those incisions to show an eagle spreading its 'wings'. that's why it is called the Blood Eagle.
and yes you can die if your lungs are exposed
Could you imagine that having not just your own personal honor but the honor of your family over your head going into battle bet it made them fight for more than just them selves
Thats how propaganda works
@@elohellol8481 that not propaganda, that pride. Pride in ones own blood. Something we lack in the West.
@@alastor8091 Yeah we should have social class divides and ritual suicide in the west more often
@@NeutralGuyDoubleZero I didn't say we should take it up. I just said what it was. I'd rather not have to kill myself because my brother lost a fight or watch my teacher get his head partially chopped off because he felt he couldn't teach the class.
@@alastor8091 My mistake, I thought you meant the pride thing as a positive thing that we were missing out on.
"Tapping the emperors daughter was totes worth"
-Ancient Samurai
no regrets lel
No regretti, in spaghetti.
No regerts
LOL!!
@@N8IsCool The samurai who got the misspelled tattoo
Ritual Rage Quit, or when you can't bear to type "gg" after a battle.
I know that all too well
Lol
Lmfao
Fundamentally, all of those actions are motivated by the same stubbornness, even though they’re obviously tiered by severity.
It's not a gg. It's a I lost and gave my family/clan shame, and there is no reason to conform to another way of life in another clan so they killed themselves
samurai: *accidentally did something embarrassing
*SEPPUKU TIME*
😂💀
Pizza time plays as background soundtrack.
Death before Dishonour.
B
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Imagine cutting open your stomach and not showing any reaction only to have the assistance to set your head rolling.
You clearly didn't pay attention or actually watch the video if you think that sending the guys head rolling was actually the goal of the ritual suicide.
Dimitri Kvasha
He doesn’t think that, he meant it like this - “imagine you cut open your stomach and not show any reaction (doing it perfectly) only to have the assistant fuck up and send your head rolling (messing the whole ritual up and shaming you and himself)”
@@dimitrikvasha7021 r/woosh
MFW...
@@dimitrikvasha7021 you clearly didnt take the time to understand what he was saying
Fun fact: in dark souls two if you beat the Samurai boss in the Crown of the Old Iron King dlc with out taking any damage, he commits seppuku.
Pretty sure he just stabs himself in the stomach instead of committing seppulu
*seppuku
@@N8Bakka close enough
@@N8Bakka bruh im bout to commit seppulu
@@scpfoundation4717 cthulu?
wow...sudoku sounds extreme
ikr nobody survived from playing it
It really is the most dangerous game
That’s the point
Sudoku is a puzzle game and completely irrelevant though it sounds similar to seppuku
@@eldenring9448 ***whoosh***
When I’m stuck on a boss in sekiro
Sacrificial kanto is an item
FetchQuestAssigner 4432 the Blue tooth is made for that purpose, the sacrificial Kanto is for extra emblems.
You disgrace the gaming community. Now go and seppuku yourself noob shinobi
@@madscientistshusta used improperly.
Sunpukku is a death made easy compared to sekiro
reading the first poem had me tearing up realizing these words were written right before a man took his life. thanks for providing this information dude! i love learning about Asian culture.
merrrcurius christy on the bright side... it was his own choice. Not many people get to choose the time and place of their own death.
@@borismuller86 indeed
Where in the video is the poem can you tell please?
@@biswaranjanmallick7407 At the end the creator of the video showed some death poems of Samurai that have committed seppuku
U have to read.... about sathi culture....in India..
13:25 Takemata Hideshige was going for the shura ending on his next playthrough.
Why is this recommended to me? Is RUclips trying to tell me something? Great vid either way
You need more honor in your life
Fire up the bass cannon
SHAKIZZY
You bring the kozuka and I’ll bring the katana, numsayin. I promise I won’t fuck up and decapitate ya!
strive for honor my son! :p
People had interesting views on honour and disgrace back then
Love your profile name and picture.
@@liizzset Thanks yours is cool too
Fun Fact: Today’s Samurai have developed from Seppuku into even more interesting views, arousing sleeping spirits of Samurai all around the world ever since, the way of Hentai,
It's worth noting that the modern perception of samurai honor is a relatively recent invention, popularized by a samurai who never fought in a war.
I would substitute "interesting" with "Stupid" imo
If my family was depending on me to not dishonor the family name then I'm sad to say that they're outta luck. I'm just not capable of spilling my own guts.
afro curly girl good dishonor is bs your family should love you regardless
@@anthonyfox585 😊😘
The sake really numb u to the pain ^_^
@@luckimonster2298 I still wouldn't be able to do it. If someone wanted me dead then he/she would have to do the dirty work themselves.
@@anthonyfox585 dishonor isn't b.s. and your family has no obligations to loving you regardless.
Seppuku really is extreme, however your outlook is also just as wrong
Wait wait wait WAIT
So a guy commits seppuku but the guy who would cut his head botched and in turn WANTED to commit seppuku and also botched. So it can be chain reaction?
Perpetual seppuku...
It wasnt perfect so they tried to stay in their laws. Epic version of shit happens.
K1NG Mackdaddy "Perpetual Seppuku" sounds like an awesome band name.
@@officialclownbusiness7788 so metal
Yeah once a whole village killed themselves like dominoes of failure
y i k e r s
Takemata Hideshige was so bitter about losing to Shibata Katsuie that he basically said he was going to be reincarnated so he could take Katsuie's head. I am not sure I would have mentioned the guy I just lost to in my death poem.
Sore loser
Rage quit lol
This is how they said “ight imma head out” back then.
Rofl
@@jblocke8814 imagine saying rofl in 2020 lmao
Boss
Aight, I'm a bleed out
@@ProfessorP07 legit nothing wrong with that wtf
The current music link has been taken down, so for those of you who are interested the first song used in this video is called "Tea Ceremony" by Brandon & Derek Fletcher
When your son screams during seppuku
"I SEE THIS AS AN ABSOLUTE FAIL
This is my religion
@@matejdimovski9528 A weird one, isn't it?
@@RC-ty5ym all religions are weird, Christian's praise a guy who got hung up on a pole on top of a small hill 😂👌
@@nibel-k1433 bro even human figure is weird
Define 'weird'
@@myhand4272 translation please? I don't understand 😅
These samurai should be honored. Definitely an extremely all or nothing nation. Everything must strive for perfection.... Even death
Lol they were an embarrassment.
Nonsense
@Mooly Stankiss
Before you're going to call him a coward--did it come to mind whether or not you will actually do it when it happens?
It's not uncommon in human nature to talk and act tough about a scenario until they're actually experiencing it themselves. Doubt either of us here are any different.
@carlos green
Depends if someone cares about that, though.
Hear here dude, few dont know what honor and dignity is, especially these days... The more time passes the more our society's forget what honor is and anyone who trys to just gets looked down upon, its sad realy
8:41 I don't remember Jumanji being about suicide... though I guess it's kinda fitting...
@-246800753124688413679633 - r/woosh
@@reagangovender4217 r/woosh
@@humangenome1632 🤡
Love your channel man, I enjoy listening to it while I’m at work and I appreciate the research done on the videos to especially the ones that don’t have much information recorded through history. Maybe for Japan you could do a video on the Yamabushi to go with the Sohei video.
Thanks for the support! I will look more into the Yamabushi at some point :) Stay tuned!
Id like to know the cultural changes taken place during the phasing out of this tradition. I believe it was all the way up til post WWII
To this day people commit seppuku in japan. It's just not open in public anymore.
Key word is WAR.
@@dingo23451 ???
@@hoshii.8533 yeah a ton of people do the suicide is what he's probably saying
Got a whole forest for it
It reminds me of a German who apparently worked as a contract killer. He was caught, but didn't say a word to the cops and in prison he managed to commit suicide by drinking bleach, cutting his wrists and hanging himself...
Apparently that impressed his former employer so much that his family gained financial support through dubious sources...
Name ? I'm curious
@@reynaldiwidjaja277 I've never seen his name. He was in the news. That's all I know.
@@reynaldiwidjaja277 Oddly enough, I was reminded today of another German that committed suicide as the honorable way and in his case I do know the name. There was a famous General in the Wehrmacht that got involved in an assassination attempt against Hitler and rather than torturing him to death, like they had done countless times before, he was offered to commit suicide and as the icing on the cake, his reputation shall remain untarnished and his family unpersecuted and supported as if he died in combat. Do you know the name of the general?
@@edi9892 Erwin Rommel ?
@@reynaldiwidjaja277 yes
I always found the Japanese attitudes towards suicide quite noble. I never thought of suicide as shameful. However, I do not necessarily agree with the... almost flippant need to commit suicide over just about every dishonor. It should be reserved for when there is no choice, no way out.
Mate, most of these dudes were random warriors and mercenaries who were given land and titles in return for helping their lords. If the punishment for dishonor weren't so severe, they'd quickly lose their value to their lords.
Samurai were mercenaries turned noblemen. And lords were the true noblemen. So they needed to keep them strictly in-line and basically threaten them with destroying their families at the smallest offense.
Was saipan noble
theres no way out . everybody is using and theres no space for honest people theres my poem.
Japan is among the world's highest statistics for suicide rates, how is the mentality of taking ones life viewed as good or noble???
@@PrettyPrincess2614 It is good and noble to think of failure and dishonor as unacceptable. In contrast to the West which has become corrupt with such, and coupled with a fear of death.
Now I know why there are no more samurai.
No they still exist. We just call them "weebs"
@@NULL-ug7ve I wouldn't consider them samurai I would rather call them failures.
@@painfall, but you are a weeb.
@@niavellir7408 At least I don't have a Katana collection and also several body pillows and anime figurines.
@@niavellir7408 Are weebs allowed in the vault mr vault tec sir?!?!
This is so fascinating. It’s crazy but at the same time I’m fascinated at how neatly organized they all were in their roles while performing the ritual
Samurai Jack tried that once.
Very educational, thank you for this upload.
6:06
orochi in for honor after he realizes he can’t beat you
More like if the orochi’s last plan to light spam failed.
ULTIMATE CHAOS c’mon you gotta forgive our light spam it literally is the only moves we have that works without having to gaurdbreak which most people counter not orochi is trash but I’m to stubborn to play anyone else XD
Bruh, if the Samurai characters in For Honor could Seppuku, I would have more respect for their faction.
@@simplyq4311 I found the orochi main lol
French Ambassador: Dude your warriors killed my friends, wtf!
Japanese Ruler: My b fam, on it
*normal tradition of atonement takes place*
French Ambassador: Yooooooooo chill out, like please dog. That shit crazy.
That’s a lot of work to end your life I can see how it’s honorable but man I’m glad I’m not a disgraced samurai
It was also seen as a sign of respect to the Japanese ruler when ordered to do this action and was taken very seriously the act was seen as a dignified way to face death for a samurai seppuku was one of the most honourable things a samurai could ever do as their final act in life and not something that they ever took lightly it also showed true honour and courage without any fear of death they were extremely brave warriors in battle going to this extent of taking their own life rather than being taken as a prisoner of war it’s very brave
Father: Are you doctor yet?
Son: Otōsan im still 13
*Seppuku intensifies*
Gotta commit Sudoku
Keeko Cheecho took me a minute to get it lmao
@@mongolchiuud8931 The joke is clearly there
Vanossgaming right
I like how i am the 69th like lmao
Do you need a Kaishakunin to assist you?
Frenchman: I demand Justice!!
Samurai: Hai
*Group of Samurais taking turn committing Seppuku*
Frenchman: Mon dieu! For the love of God, pardon the poor souls!
Samurai: Hai. YAMERU!
*remaining samurais stop*
These people.
Pretty good
I bet the remaining samurai were pissed & dishonored for the rest of their lives but unable to regain that honor through seppuku.
@@markuhler2664 damn French men ruining something he don't understand.
Hon hon hon!
@@markuhler2664 actually that's an interesting thought, in that scenario would they still be a disgrace to themselves and their families for not being able to go through with the seppuku?
"lie a rotten log half burred in the ground- my life ,which has not flowered come to this sad end" I like to think this mans life did flower and the poem is the fruit left for us
After reading your reply, I agree. He left a beautiful flower behind and we can admire it all these years later.
Thank you for saying that.
Hey i was wondering if you could do an analysis on the history of the yakuza
larry southerland I think theres like a Vox video or something on it. Basically the Yakuza werw told they were less then because they smelled bad.
I’m converting to Shinto...and going out like this. I love that it wasn’t viewed as “the person passed away” but as “They achieved death.” That’s badass.
That's very much something I'd figure "KidofSteel036" would say. At least you didn't capitalize the "of".
Seriously though. Chill out. We aren't in an age of warinf tribes between a single homogeneous nation, dawg.
@@lindyxyo4254 Your comment shows what's wrong with modernity though. Yeah we don't live in an age of "warring tribes" (they didn't either, Edo period was period of tranquility), we live in a barbarian age where people die of obesity or cancer in their beds, living meaningless spiritual-less lives. It's the age of materialistic hebraic American global capitalism. For such a man as OP to look into spirituality, Shinto, Buddhism (I advise this, esp Zen Buddhism) and digging deeper into the existence of life, is a very noble endeavour. You will not do that and live a meaningless cattle like life, fed on American fast food, Netflix, low attention span, and die a meaningless death, having lived a meaningless life. I urge you to reconsider, develop a higher IQ, and examine the finer mysteries of life.
@@Bahamut998I respect this comment , and I’m guilty of partaking in a lot of the meaningless stuff you’ve mentioned . & I’m trying to find more in life but very cynical. What is it about all of this and “spirituality” that makes life more meaningful? Do you end up doing the same everyday tasks as everyone else but mentally, you’re on another level where you’ve achieved peace or happiness? I’m very interested in it and want to learn more because right now I feel like it’s all meaningless no matter how you go about it or live your life
" Taco bell has digraced my family with nuclear diarrhea" - final words of a samurai 1592
Samurai Jack's last words
Makes you appreciate how easy it is to commit suicide on the battlefield nowadays.
aliastheabnormal Bruh what???
For real. Now you can just BLAH and your family still respects you. 👌😎
@@aliastheabnormal but didn't you pay attention? A blown head is worse than a clean cut decapitation and that was considered undignified.
@@legendaryoutcast4440 You are a fucking moron. Nobody cares anymore.
@@legendaryoutcast4440 but it's painful.
Those death poems got me doing a big think for real. I'm gonna go find more, thank you for introducing me to this fascinating, if quite morbid, subject.
Absolute respect to the Samurai warrior's of Japan. Honor to the end.
So sad. You explained this very good. I learned new information about the soul in the abdomen, which is why the laceration is done there. Excellent video. I am enjoying your channel so much.
So capturing a samurai after the battle before they can do seppuku is the ultimate T-bag
Would be better if the volume of the music was lowered to a feint background.
"Yeah ok you do have a stable job, a girlfriend that loves you and the support of several very good friends, but your grandpa did kinda flinch while committing sepukku soooo..."
Excellent video!
Apparently in the story of 47 Ronin when the head Samurai Ayoshi was laying low for 2 years in Tokyo before they made their attack, the story goes he knew he had spies following him & in order to get them off his back he walked around the bars as a drunk all day & night. One day he was passed out on the street & a man spit on him saying he was not worthy to be a samurai. Once they finally carried out their attack, this same man heard of it & travelled to Ayoshi’s grave to apologize, & also committed seppuku right there at his headstone 😳😳
Bruh this made literally no sense
Thanks for the tutorial bro!!! Exited to try this out
Thomas Qiao same
When you read about Seppuku and see it in films and study it, it’s almost as though the actual physical side of the act is made to seem like it’s something that can inherently be done and it’s the mental courage and willpower to inflict excruciating pain unto yourself and then dying that’s the really hard part. Which yes that is extremely hard to commit to, but actually physically pressing a blade into your stomach through all that tough skin and fat and veins and stomach lining is tough let alone getting it deep enough to be fatal. I think anyone from today who attempts seppuku comes out realizing “Damn those Samurai were some tough fuckers”
Something to keep in mind however, is they used special Seppuku blades which were extremely sharp.
They sliced through flesh like butter. So if you did the correct Seppuku technique, you wouldn't be cutting with difficulty.
Very informative and enlightening.
This brings up a question now, were the kamikaze pilots commeting a form of Seppuku?
Good question
Sexy Tomato No, they were not. Seppuku is generally defeatist in nature, and intended only to give one an honorable death and being honor to the bereaved family. Kamikaze attacks were an offensive strategy, focused less on bringing one’s self honor and more on destroying one’s enemies while simultaneously displaying an utmost sense of dedication to the Emperor, to one’s family, and to one’s homeland. It of course was also a very honorable way to die at the time. Sacrificing one’s self to hopefully help stop a nearly unstoppable foe is... Perhaps one of the best ways a warrior could die. If not the best. In any case, it would bring a sense of peace to the family, to know that the husband and father they lost, died as a hero of the highest order, and voluntarily, rather than being defeated in battle and proven to be the inferior. Though in modern warfare, a man who kills another man and emerged as a victor... really has little to credit himself for. He merely had to pull a trigger, and happened to get lucky enough not to be hit first. In the times of the samurai, he who was victorious could be assumed to have been victorious due to his own superiority with the sword rather than due to mere luck. And therefore he who was defeated would also prove to be the inferior. That was something of a shameful title. Though it was certainly not the most dishonorable of deaths to die in battle. By all means it was far preferable to being captured and executed, and preferable to dying peacefully on a bedside.
Commander Rockwell Then they got horrendously fucked up. Not so honorable now and a complete and utter fail in strategy. Kamikaze strikes should only be done when losing hard. That way you can hit the enemy hard up until the last breath of your army.
Now it makes it look like some of the pilots had a chance of surviving the horrors to keep providing for their families and country.
Commander Rockwell kamikaze was defeatist in nature, and only really became common after the tide had turned against Japan in the war. It was viewed as a last ditch effort to do as much damage as you could before your life ended
@@t.b.cont. You could look at it as defeatist in nature, or you could look at it from a strategic standpoint. One plane for one aircraft carrier (at best) are some pretty good odds. Plus it causes terror in your enemies, cause you were a crazy bastard and your squadmates are too. Kind of makes you wonder what would have happened if we didn't drop the bombs on em. Every single man, woman and child would have fought to the death in some crazy ways and millions more would've died as a result on both sides.
Thanks for the tutorial! Hope to try this with my wife later tonight!
“... industrialization is the number one cause for life expectancy to have doubled since antiquity.”
*Japanese Warriors killing themselves at 20 because their lord lost a single battle*
With this video, you've gained a new subscriber in me. All the best.
Who else is gripping their stomach rn? 💀
I was instead pondering on the situation and wondering how well it would go. Not that I'd like to die this way, but just the fact that there are so many cultural elements of honour related to it.
Excellent! Thank you for really explaining seppuku and also the poems at the end. The last one must have been so angry that he los and now has to... t
Excellent video, especially on a topic so foreign to the modern western mind. It's hard to appreciate the dignity & reasoning of why someone, especially a warrior & lord who has fought his whole career, would commit seppuku.
The way of the warrior is a path unknown to most nowadays. We live in a world at peace for the most part
I remember that Morita incident in 1970. It was at the end pages of look magazine. I was a little kid but it was so weird seeing his head on the carpet. In 1567 there was sepukku, now there are sensitivity training clinics.
I love samurai history but a lot of people have to realize the samurai were anything but honorable, even in Seppuku. Junshi was especially a sad aspect of seppuku and just a loss of life (for those who don't know, junshi is when a lord's retainers would commit seppuku in order to follow them in death)
Love the video and speaking of Japanese culture try doing a video on my favorite story of the 47 ronin
Cody Herrera Hope there is some info on all 47 of them :)
@@JonasUllenius there is and If or when u get a chance i would look at it i know u won't be disappointed
Hope the video he does make has that in it.
Do read a lot but it is great when the video has things like that in them or linked videos to get the whole story.
For some strange reason, I find beauty in this
Respectful. Full of honor. No need to judge them by the way they live. I was going to do this as a child had no idea it was a thing. No I'm 39 with a man bun. It makes sense to me now. Japanese have my respect.
That's not strange, people who don't is.
I feel goosebumps when i read the poem.. Seems like the spirit of the Samurai is around me
I admired the Japanese culture and their honor! Thank you for explaining the Seppuku ritual!
Ooooohhhhhh I’m so glad I found your channel! Subscribed!
Thank you for the info I’ve always wondered if there was more to it.
Yukio Mishima was an excellent writer. I highly recommend "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea."
I’ve been thinking a recently about this particular custom; and I never fully understood why they would throw their lives away because of failure or their very subjective view of honor, but I’ve actually come to understand it more completely.
People want their protectors to do their jobs right for them: to protect and serve as well as preserve peace. Titles like “hero” are established for those who are successful at accomplishing these feats in such a magnificent way. However, when said protectors fail or do not perform their duty exactly the way everyone wants them to, they are shamed and cast out, even when they were trying to do the right thing. This is actually the real scenario that all those who protect and serve face. When soldier from Vietnam returned from war, they didn’t exactly get any appreciation beyond whatever the government gave them since a lot of what happened over there was not exactly justified. Same with police officers today who are being hated on even when most of them did nothing wrong. If a cop happens to shoot someone exactly the way they were trained to given a specific situation, it doesn’t matter to anyone else since the culprit was someone who happened to committing the crime was of a particular demographic.
To quote the Dark Knight: “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain”. If anything, the Japanese and their custom of Seppuku was ahead of its time socially speaking. Point is, if you die protecting people they’ll honor you, but if you survive they don’t give that much of a crap about you. Not to say it’s not worth doing, but no good dead goes unpunished. At least not when it comes to the big picture stuff. This ancient custom may take it to the extreme, but it does kind of prove the point that it’s easier to die protecting than to live with the result of those actions. Sad, but true.
Just gotta love history man great video 👍👍👍
How to disconnect back in the day
Im lagging
Really enjoy ur work, Can u do one of The Saptarishis or Shukracharya?
*_*Head goes flying clean off_**
*Kaishakunin:* _"Shit! I swung too hard."_
**Commits seppuku**
I was super enlightened with the video two 👍 👍.
My parents told me to do this. I didn't get a A+. Only a A.
Palpatine: Do it!
You are still here you dishonor family.
@@chaos120m agreed
Rip
coward
Basically you are correct, however I must point out that there are many instances of Samurai surviving their initial cut and NOT being allowed to continue.
There are instances of Samurai literally living days in agony (some as long as 3 days) as this was considered ritualistic pain to bring on a sense of dignity and endurance to pay for one's transgressions.
On an interesting side note, you mentioned religious extremism that some in the West committed suicide. However, the Roman Catholic Pope was a member of a group called Agnus Dei who practiced ritualistic flogging of the body.
It was said Pope John Paul II regularly flogged himself as the pain he said, brought him closer to God's message and intent. It is an ancient practice and I wouldn't be surprised if it did indeed have it's roots in Asia. Ritual pain IS known to be practiced for religion, penance, and to ask forgiveness for one's mistakes.
The Japanese Imperial Army is very notorious and brutal in WWII because of their Bushido Code. It is very hard to face your enemy if they are willing to fight to death and commit suicide.
Love the vid cant believe u copy the music str8 from another RUclips vid I have saved lml
I admire the Samurai's bravery.
Truly sad....i know they saw it as a holy way to die but i cant help feel grief over this...how many last moments were filled with the struggle to not scream in agony while their guts fell out? How many suffered from an ill-fated strike from their assistant...how many paid for their singular mistake, with their lives?
Their wives...my god those poor women..
Sometimes when Im bored I feel like commiting sudoku...
Spices your life right up!
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Don't did it man.... if you're not samurai its considered a cowwards way out lol
😂😂
11:32 the transition from beheading to youtube patter is hilarious
Damn bro, imagine have the guts to spill your guts.
Its not that crazy to think about
If u got the toughness in u
These people thought of embarrassment n some dishonored as worse than dat
Too much
I’m stuck on the great shinobi owl rn
Edit: I’m stuck on true corrupted monk now oof
Be more aggressive and don’t let him take your gourd away
You still stuck?
During the Meiji Restoration, seppuku was the form of execution employed for high court officials who screwed up in some way. The "subject" was NOT required to actually disembowel himself, however; after going through the ceremony, he would pass a fan across his belly, to give himself a token "cut", and would then be beheaded
Read Lone Wolf and Cub, in particular the botched seppuku in the last book. It’s horrific and probably how a lot of victims acted.
I like the fact that I start playing Ghost of Tsushima and now I’m getting recommendations like this ❤️
I find this type of tradition is extremely harsh and backwards by modern standards.
During the Feudal Age, they do not retreat, instead, the Samurai acted themselves that are expendables, even if they survived and avoid captured, they' commit suicide by not bringing shame to their family instead to improve themselves to learn from their mistakes.
In WW2, many Japanese Commanders and Officers committed suicide just because they failed their objectives, they did the same like the Samurai's did in the feudal era, instead of improving, they acted as expendables again.
You’re glossing over the fact that citizens did this suicide shit too. It’s an undeniable fact that had Japan not developed this stupid suicide culture, President Truman would have not authorized the atomic bombings.
If there's anything I learned about history, it's that it loves repeating itself.
It wasn’t backwards by modern standards. It was backwards by medieval standards. Japanese idea of warfare is clearly cultural & calling the name of one enemy & where he’s from & challenging that person to 1v1 combat during a chaotic battle is clearly Japanese. The only other places that had a history of single combat during a middle of a battle was in Europe & the Middle East, but that was rare & happened to avoid further bloodshed during a stalemate. David & Goliath is the most famous example of a duel that broke the stalemate between the armies of the Israelites & Philistines.
During the first Mongol invasion there was a stalemate. Many Japanese samurai challenged the Mongols to the honorable tradition of single combat, but their challenges were answered by arrows & explosives... Many Japanese clans were able to change their “outdated” tactics after the initial skirmish.
The Mongols & Americans didn’t care about honor & cultural values of the Samurai... they only give a damn about forcing the Japanese into submission, either through an invasion or nuclear bombardment.
@@kinglouiev9530 The idea of Samurai honor was just a way to keep these warriors blindly loyal to their lords and ensure that they don't go rogue.
If a samurai wants his family to have a good life, he better die for his lord or kill himself if that fails, or they'll be dishonored meaning that they'll be stripped of their titles and estates, and return to being peasants.
Samurai is just the Japanese equivalent for a mercenary turned nobleman and given estate. It can all be stripped back, so they use dumb concepts like honor to keep them subjugated even in death.
Emajenus I knew that. I’ve had to do research on Shintoism for mythology class when I was in high school... not because I’m a weeb who runs like a “ninja” from Naruto.
I Love the music in the background
Seppuku: translates to "Quiet Game"
Yeah dude quite
@@KyngD469 Hurp-a-derp thank you.
Fantastic video
Self death much better than the death of a thousand cuts boy o boy
The quote "Had I known that I was alreadt dead" is the same quote that was left in a supposed suicide note from a very controversial disappearance of woman who's truck was found abandoned in Alaska, yet her body never was found....... Very eerie to say the least. Someone would've had to have fore-knowledge of this quote in order to write the suicide note, and leave it in her truck. She was a member and slave of the Nexium cult.
3:55 so that’s why in Sekiro when you kill isshin you don’t actually decapitate. Man every day that game surprises me
the art in this video is beautiful
The japanese culture put a very high importance on honor, for if history remembers you, it will be by your (dis)honorable deeds. Those are tied to your family’s name, and which is why your relatives will share yours and vice-versa. Ninjas (dishonorable samurais) have a very complicated status within that culture
Ninja's weren't dishonourable samurais dude, they were completely disconnected to samurais altogether. To be a shinobi, you didn't even have to be a samurai
How Old Japan would react to Current Japan, lmao.
Ninjas were often just commoners. Not samurai. Their lives meant nothing. Samurai had concepts of honor because their whole lives were dedicated to fighting and serving their lords. Ninjas were not meant to kill as much as they were to gather intelligence although they were of course trained to kill as well
Thank you RUclips for putting this in my recommended
None of the samurai has known the sweet taste of revenge
Revenge is not sweet dont be a girl saying these sort of things
@@Paghmani1sher I don't even remember this comment.
My bad i guess...
I definitely loved this video.
*_Rage Quitting with Style, eh?_*
*GG No Re!*