I hope that he will not now be tempted to commithara-kiri, and that none of us will be forced to do so, either.
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Are we justified in committinghara-kirifor no reason?
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I do not know what to do, except to go off and commithara-kirias a result of that particular item of news.
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I cannot believe that this is necessarily a superior form ofhara-kirithough it may be more comfortable.
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They have to perform under it a very difficult and complicated operation something likehara-kirior self-vivisection.
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One may say that a party which has committedhara-kiriso soon after birth has not a great deal to contribute.
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This is a form of intellectualhara-kiri.
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Sohara-kiriis a spoken term, but only to commoners and seppuku a written term, but spoken amongst higher classes for the same act.
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It is commonly pointed out thathara-kiriis a vulgarism, but this is a misunderstanding.
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His father was forced to commithara-kiriand his older brother too.
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Mitsutoshi then performed his famous and unpredicted act of committinghara-kiriwhile writing a poem on a door with blood from his abdomen used as ink for his brush.
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