harakiri
- n ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
- He had, quite obviously, committed harakiri.
- Aboard the Japanese flagship Mikasa the captains of the fleet faced their admiral across a lacquer tray containing the instruments used in committing harakiri.
- Before committing harakiri, he wrote a farewell to his Emperor ("I humbly beg .