Seppuku - Notable People Who Performed Seppuku

Notable People Who Performed Seppuku

  • Minamoto no Tametomo (1139–1170)
  • Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106–1180)
  • Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159–1189)
  • Azai Nagamasa (1545–1573)
  • Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582)
  • Takeda Katsuyori (1546–1582)
  • Shibata Katsuie (1522–1583)
  • Hōjō Ujimasa (1538–1590)
  • Sen no Rikyū (1522–1591)
  • Torii Mototada (1539-1600)
  • Forty-six of the Forty-seven Ronin (1703)
  • Watanabe Kazan (1793–1841)
  • Tanaka Shinbei (1832–1863)
  • Takechi Hanpeita (1829–1865)
  • Yamanami Keisuke (1833–1865)
  • Byakkotai (group of samurai youths) (1868)
  • Saigō Takamori (1828–1877)
  • Nogi Maresuke (1849–1912)
  • Chujiro Hayashi (1879–1940)
  • Korechika Anami (1887–1945)
  • Takijirō Ōnishi (1891–1945)
  • Isamu Chō (1895-1945)
  • Yukio Mishima (1925–1970)
  • Isao Inokuma (1938–2001)

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