Bushido was the spiritual pillar of the samurai class in feudal Japanese society. Originated in the Kamakura shogunate in Japan, it was formed by absorbing the superficial ideas of Confucianism and Buddhism in the Edo period. The most typical behavior of the Bushido spirit is to cut the abdomen. As for why caesarean section was chosen as the noblest method of death for the samurai, it is generally believed that many countries and peoples in ancient times advocated that the human soul lived in the belly; therefore, the samurai adopted the method and ritual of caesarean section to show the people when it was necessary to show his soul outward.
Because the abdomen is a nerve-dense place, this method of death is very painful, but the samurai chose it anyway. In addition to the question of "soul", there is also "dignity". The more painful it is, the more dignified it is, and the choice of the most painful abdomen is to show that the samurai are not afraid of pain, and only in this way can they reflect their dignity of not being afraid of death.
Supposedly, samurai are generally roles played or played by men and have little to do with women, but this is not the case in Japan. Some girls born into samurai families also learned martial arts from an early age and were able to use some weapons to defend their dignity. As adults, some parents will give them a short knife, both to defend themselves when threatened, and to allow them to insert themselves into their chests at certain times. For example, if a girl's virginity is threatened, and she cannot resist or cannot resist successfully, she should use this short knife to end her life, so as to protect her reputation and let herself die decently.
Under the influence of this consciousness, the role of women in society is very clear, that is, although they cannot fight on the battlefield like samurai, or even sacrifice their lives for the country, they must undertake the mission of making the samurai family continue, help the samurai manage the family well, and make them "perform better" outside. Even when the samurai died, they had to send their descendants out to continue their cause. Therefore, these women exist in the continuation of the samurai family and the samurai spirit, so their marriage is not free, generally by the parents to decide, the marriage is actually the samurai family, the samurai spirit.
In the previous text, we probably told a Japanese woman named Chiyoko Inoue, the newlywed wife of Seiichi Inoue of the 37th Osaka Infantry Company of the Japanese Army invading China, who committed suicide by her neck on the eve of her husband's expedition to China on the eve of her husband's expedition to China, in order to motivate her husband who participated in the war of aggression against China and make him "loyal to the emperor" and "dedicate himself to the country" in northeast China without worries. This kind of behavior achieved unprecedented "success", her husband Inoue Seiichi became the culprit of the "Pingdingshan Massacre", and she became a model and example for the ghost army and even all Japanese women during World War II, and the deeds were made into movies and publicized.
Today, we will talk about another Japanese woman, called Keiko, who is not famous compared to Chiyoko Inoue, but is also a victim of the spirit of Bushido. Keiko's husband is Sugiyama Moto, a Japanese field marshal, the first person in the Army Aviation Corps, an active planner and participant in the launch of the all-out war of aggression against China and the Pacific War, and when he was studying at the military academy in his early years, he was jokingly called a fool because of his thick face, and he was unusually stoic and stubborn in character.
After the outbreak of the Japanese invasion of China, the Japanese Emperor asked him how long it would take to take China, and he replied: "In three months, they can crush the Chinese, and they will seek peace." What he meant was that it would only take three months for China to submit to Japan and end the war, which was also the source of the Japanese "three months to destroy China" at that time.
Sugiyama Motoshi's journey was smooth, but it did not seem to be very smooth in terms of family, in his early years, he had married two wives, one named Yamamoto Kiharu, who died in the second year after marriage, and the other was named Ogawa Yoshiko, who was the daughter of army general Ogawa again, and died less than two years after marriage. Later, Sugiyama married his third wife, Keiko, a Japanese woman who grew up in a samurai family.
In 1945, the Japanese army suffered repeated defeats on various battlefields. In the face of the fiasco, Sugiyama still strongly advocated stubborn resistance with the US army and engaged in scorched-earth combat. On July 26 of that year, the United States, Britain, and China issued the Potsdam Proclamation, issuing an ultimatum to Japan and urging it to surrender immediately, but Sugiyama still advocated stubborn resistance to the end. On August 15, Emperor Hirohito read the Edict of the End of the War, in which Sugiyama said that "death will not be a crime", but in the end there was no choice but to face the emperor's decision to surrender.
The gray-headed Sugiyama Moto returns home, and Keiko says to him, "At this time, you should decide for yourself!" Sugiyama was startled, knowing that as a "samurai", his self-determination had become a necessity at such a time. But he still didn't want to die, and dragged it in every way. Unexpectedly, Keiko was very concerned about this matter, repeatedly urging, and even said to Sugiyama: "You can't wait until the Americans take you prisoner, can you?" Sugiyama felt very faceless, but still did not want to die.
On September 12, Sugiyama learned that Hideki Tojo had attempted suicide, so he made up his mind to commit suicide and chose the location of suicide in his office. At that time, he asked his subordinates for a pistol, and he aimed the gun at the brain shell, but he couldn't get his hands down, so he pulled the trigger several times... Finally, in a daze, he yelled at Tanaka Tadatsu Daisa, a senior staff officer of the 53rd Army who had been waiting for him outside, "Hey, what's going on, the bullets can't come out!" ”
Tanaka took the gun and told Sugiyama, "Commander, you forgot to open the insurance!" And turned on the insurance for Sugiyama, Sugiyama Moto picked up the gun and walked in. Tanaka tadaokatsu thought, how could the commander, as a veteran soldier, forget about insurance? Then, he heard gunshots — Sugiyama shot himself in the chest four times in a row. The news was soon informed to Keiko, and she was not upset, and that night in the Buddhist hall of her home, dressed in a completely white mourning dress, she committed suicide by piercing the heart with a short knife in accordance with the samurai tradition. In this regard, it is said that this woman who was not a samurai died much more decently than her husband. (Wen | Lusheng)