Isao inokuma (second from left) was the gold medalist in the men's heavyweight judo competition at the 1964 Olympics. However, in 2001, due to the huge financial losses of the company, he, as the ceo, chose to commit suicide by caesarean section, becoming the last known person to commit suicide by cutting his abdomen.
Belly cutting is a death ritual of Japanese samurai. It has been circulating in Japan since the 12th century and has become a form of suicide with a sense of dignity and ritual that only samurai are qualified to perform.
Screenshot of the movie "Cut belly"
In fact, not only Japanese samurai, but also the wives of samurai have their own suicide rituals, "self-harm", which is similar to cutting the abdomen with a knife. Moreover, if their husbands have committed suicide by cutting their own stomachs or are about to be captured by enemy forces, they will choose to commit suicide in order to avoid rape.
As a ritual, abdominal cutting has its prescribed procedure. Usually, samurai who were preparing to cut their abdomen had to bathe and change into white clothing to show purity. In order to better demonstrate the determination and grandeur of death, the suicidal person should drink two glasses of sake in four sips and write a poem that must reflect the heroic death heart of the suicidal person, but also cannot directly mention death. After that, the samurai could pick up the knife and cut the abdomen.
The common method of abdominal incision is to first use a knife to cut a knife in the abdomen from left to right, and then cut a knife upwards on the far right, gracefully keeping the body leaning forward, quietly waiting for the intestines and blood to flow out of the body. The whole process is very painful and long. It is said that in 1793, the samurai Takayama Hikakuro cut his abdomen in the afternoon and died at nine o'clock the next morning, and the pain lasted for up to 19 hours. Later, in order to alleviate the pain of the abdominal cutter, there appeared that the "wrong person" cut off the head of the abdomen cut off with a knife after the suicide person cut the abdomen, to be precise, the wrong person would not completely cut off the head of the cesarean section, but would make the head and neck still have a slight connection in the throat. If the wrong person fails to do this, the reputation will be damaged.
A samurai cut his stomach and committed suicide, and at his feet was a poem
Although the abdominal cutting ceremony was protracted and the pain was unbearable, many warriors who cut their abdomen still insisted on taking the wounds to their masters after cutting their abdomen, and when they did not die, they were really "risking death to enter the counsel".
The reason why the samurai chose to cut the abdomen was because they believed that the human soul was hidden in the abdomen, and to cut the abdomen open was actually to hand over the soul to the master, as if to tell the heart: This situation can be learned. And these seemingly cruel and inexplicable ways of committing suicide are the embodiment of the Japanese Bushido spirit- rather than for the whole of the tiles.
After World War II, many Japanese officers could not bear to be defeated and committed suicide by cutting their stomachs
However, with the development of Japanese society, the samurai class slowly withdrew from the stage of history, and the cutting of the abdomen gradually became history. In modern society, we know that in addition to Ino-Kumakon, there is also the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima who committed suicide by cutting his abdomen due to the failure of the coup d'état.
Mishima's body was carried out of Rikugun's office
With the change of the japanese samurai lifestyle, the cutting of the abdomen became a thing of the past, and as the tide of the times washed away, the samurai class also declined.
A movie called "Cutting the Belly" records the embarrassment of the Japanese samurai class: a large number of samurai were forced to become ronin who lost their jobs and did nothing, running to the homes of the princes to kill themselves by cutting their stomachs to defraud money. A ronin man carries a samurai sword made of bamboo, cheats money, and eventually bites his tongue and commits suicide. As everyone knows, the life of the ronin has long been ruined to the extreme, and in the face of survival, the spirit of Bushido has to sink into a decoration of dignity... This film also won the Jury Special Award at the Cannes International Film Festival that year, becoming a stepping stone for the world to understand Japanese Bushido culture.
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