Seppuku: Difference between revisions

* There's a controlled cell death inducing gene in humans, actually called ''harakiri'', it's protein ''hrk''.

* Etsu Sugimoto a Japanese-American of aristocratic parentage tells in her memoirs how when she took her children from the American side of her trans-pacific marriage to see her birth home she was embarrassed at explaining what the head bucket was for(to have around just in case the emperor required it of her father). This troper rather thinks that many children would find it charmingly gruesome but whatever.

 

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