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| The word {{nihongo|'''''jigai'''''|自害}} means "]" in ]. The usual modern word for suicide is {{Nihongo|''jisatsu''|自殺}}.<ref></ref> Related words include {{Nihongo|''jiketsu''|自決}}, {{Nihongo|''jijin''|自尽}} and {{Nihongo|''jijin''|自刃}}. | The word {{nihongo|'''''jigai'''''|自害}} means "]" in ]. The usual modern word for suicide is {{Nihongo|''jisatsu''|自殺}}.<ref></ref> Related words include {{Nihongo|''jiketsu''|自決}}, {{Nihongo|''jijin''|自尽}} and {{Nihongo|''jijin''|自刃}}. In some western texts the term is associated with suicide of samurai wives.<ref>insert relevant examples from voluminous refs in martial arts books etc.</ref> | ||
| ==Femal ritual suicide in pre-modern Japan== | |||
| Turnbull (1996<ref>Stephen R. Turnbull ''The Samurai: A Military History'' 1996 Page 72 "Thus began the most tragic mass suicide in the history of the samurai. The Emperor's mother was next to jump into the sea, but was hauled out by a Minamoto samurai who caught her hair in a rake. The wife of Shigehira was also about to jump ...</ref> 2012<ref>Stephen Turnbull ''Samurai Women 1184-1877'' 2012 "In one celebrated case the religious beliefs of the wife of a daimyo prevented her from committing suicide. This was Hosokawa Gracia, the staunchly Christian wife of Hosokawa Yusai. The steps taken to avoid such disasters could be as awful ..."</ref>) provides extensive evidence for the practice of female ritual suicide, notably of samurai wives, in pre-modern Japan. The expected honour-suicide of the samurai wife is also frequently referenced in Japanese literature and film.<ref>Orit Kamir ''Framed: Women in Law and Film'' 2005- Page 64 "his lost honor, the samurai uses his wife's dagger to commit the suicide she should have committed. His act manifests how, when not used properly by the woman on herself, the dagger, representing the woman, becomes the vehicle of the ..."</ref><ref>Alastair Phillips, Julian Stringer ''Japanese Cinema: Texts And Contexts'' 2007 Page 57 "The other samurai does not have the courage or honesty to face his degradation and it is left to his wife to stage a double suicide by killing him and then herself with a humble knife. The scene in which the wife takes out the knife in readiness ..."</ref> | |||
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The word jigai (自害) means "suicide" in Japanese. The usual modern word for suicide is jisatsu (自殺). Related words include jiketsu (自決), jijin (自尽) and jijin (自刃). In some western texts the term is associated with suicide of samurai wives.
Femal ritual suicide in pre-modern Japan
Turnbull (1996 2012) provides extensive evidence for the practice of female ritual suicide, notably of samurai wives, in pre-modern Japan. The expected honour-suicide of the samurai wife is also frequently referenced in Japanese literature and film.
References
- じがい 1 0 【自害】 - goo 辞書
- insert relevant examples from voluminous refs in martial arts books etc.
- Stephen R. Turnbull The Samurai: A Military History 1996 Page 72 "Thus began the most tragic mass suicide in the history of the samurai. The Emperor's mother was next to jump into the sea, but was hauled out by a Minamoto samurai who caught her hair in a rake. The wife of Shigehira was also about to jump ...
- Stephen Turnbull Samurai Women 1184-1877 2012 "In one celebrated case the religious beliefs of the wife of a daimyo prevented her from committing suicide. This was Hosokawa Gracia, the staunchly Christian wife of Hosokawa Yusai. The steps taken to avoid such disasters could be as awful ..."
- Orit Kamir Framed: Women in Law and Film 2005- Page 64 "his lost honor, the samurai uses his wife's dagger to commit the suicide she should have committed. His act manifests how, when not used properly by the woman on herself, the dagger, representing the woman, becomes the vehicle of the ..."
- Alastair Phillips, Julian Stringer Japanese Cinema: Texts And Contexts 2007 Page 57 "The other samurai does not have the courage or honesty to face his degradation and it is left to his wife to stage a double suicide by killing him and then herself with a humble knife. The scene in which the wife takes out the knife in readiness ..."
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