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i'm having a hard time finding who took this photo. it's either felice beato or kusakabe kimbei.
I don't understand what the pig intestines have to do with this.
are you saying it's a staged photo using pig intestine as the gore, or that they somehow impaled themselves with it?
it's staged.
Damn ahegao is older than I thought
Get up, man! you only have 60 seconds before the buff runs out!
Interesting there's no Kaishaku
I figure that's for seppuku, the ritual. This is just harakiri, the act.
AFAIK theres no difference. "Harakiri" was just what the nobility called it condescendingly when poor people did it. It's not a verb vs noun thing.
The subject being a samurai means they would probably employ a kaishaku to retain their honour. The role of kaishaku was given to someone skilled and trusted, because they had to cut as much as possible in a single blow without beheading the subject thus destroying their honour.