HARA-KIRI (Japanese hara, belly, and kin, cutting) also pronounced though incorrect HARI-KARI,the act of self disembowelment, primarily the method of suicide permitted to offenders of the noble class in feudal Japan, and later the national form of honorable suicide. Hara-kiri has been often translated as the happy dispatch in confusion with a native euphemism for the act. More usually the Japanese themselves speak of hara-kiri by its Chinese synonym, Sep puku. Hara-kiri is not an aboriginal Japanese custom. It was a growth of medithisthingisdisabled militarism, the act probably at first being prompted by the desire of the noble to escape the humiliation. of falling into an enemys hands. By the end of the 14th century the custom had become a much valued privilege, being formally established as such under the Ashi-Kaga dynasty. Hara-kiri was of two kinds, obligatory and, voluntary. The first is the more ancient. An official or noble, who had broken the law or been disloyal, received a message from the emperor, couched always in sympathetic and gracious tones, courteously intimating that he must die. The mikado usually sent a jewelled dagger with which the deed might be done. The suicide had so many days allotted to him by immemorial custt~m in which to make dignified preparations for the ceremony, which was attended by the utmost formality. In his own burial hall or in a temple a platform 3 inches from the ground was constructed.Upon this was laid a rug of red felt. The victim,clothed in his ceremonial dress as a hereditary noble, and accompanied by his second or Kaishaku, took his place on the mat, the officials and his friends ranging themselves in a semicircle round him. After a minutes prayer the weapon. was handed to him,he then stripped to the waist. Every movement in the grim ceremony was governed by precedent, and he had to tuck his wide sleeves under his knees to prevent himself falling backwards, for a Japanese noble must die falling forward. A moment later he plunged the dagger into his stomach below the waist on. the left side, drew it across to the right and, turning it, gave a slight cut upward. At the same moment the Kaishaku who crouched at his friends side, leaping up, brought his sword down on the outstretched neck. At the conclusion of the ceremony the bloodstained dagger was taken to the mikado as a proof of the consummation of the heroic act. The performance of hara-kiri carried with it certain privileges. If it was by order of the mikado half only of a traitors property was forfeited to the state. If the gnawings of conscience drove the disloyal noble to voluntary suicide, his dishonour was wiped out, and his family inherited all his fortune


So if Ed Boon plans on making a traditional Hara-kiri,expect them to all be the same move,if not then he should change the rirle for them because it wouldnt be a true Hara-kiri,it would be nothing more than a suicide