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Stick of Time | Shogun: 1x7 | FULL Reaction (Patreon)

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2026-06-19 15:00:17
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2026-06

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Alecta's Shadow

Regarding your question on seppuku: AFAIK it was originally a way for warrios that were about to be captured in battle to avoid torture and interrogation by committing suicide. In that context it was not necessarily formalised that you would have someone to "second" you (i.e. behead you), the idea would be to cut deep enough to cause death to be rapid through massive blood loss. It is only fairly late that it becomes the sort of formal, honour-bound acceptance of death we see in the show. By the time the show is depicting, seppuku being a formal expectation of the nobility/martial class was a fairly new thing, maybe a hundred years old or so. I think it's helpful to see it as simply a form of death penalty. The fact that you are mandated to carry it out yourself, at least in part, is harkening back to warrior culture, but at the end of the day you're only doing it under duress because you are at the mercy of your victorious enemy - if they were to hang you or whatever, you'd be just as dead. A more modern Western analogy might be things like "disloyal" German officers being "allowed" to commit suicide with a cyanide capsule rather than face a public trial and execution from the regime, stuff like that. Technically the sentenced person is taking their own life, but it's purely for symbolic reasons: for all intents and purposes, they are being executed. That said, Japan at the time was culturally very obsessed with death. The show points this out several times very successfully imho, from the very first episode. Or even what Mariko said after the first earthquake, "death is in our air" etc. It hugely permeates their cultural understanding and their rituals, in a way that is as alien to Blackthorne as it is to a modern Western audience. Yabushige having a will written every day and minutely observing how people die is another example of the theme being pretty much universal background radiation to everything that happens in this show, imho.

PP82

It's also important to note that the "second" that became a formal part of ritual seppuku in the Sengoku period wasn't there to prevent pain on the part of the one committing suicide, but to prevent dishonor or embarrassment should that person cry out, or fail to complete the required cuts.