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Definition of Harikari
1. Noun. Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society.
Generic synonyms: Self-annihilation, Self-destruction, Suicide
Geographical relationships: Japan, Nihon, Nippon
Definition of Harikari
1. n. See Hara-kiri.
Definition of Harikari
1. Noun. An alternative spelling of hara-kiri, considered to be incorrect. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harikari
Literary usage of Harikari
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shall disease triumph in our army?: Extracts from a Volume Entitled, "From by Louis Livingston Seaman (1904)
"... penalty of the offence by committing harikari, but ie Marchioness graciously
soothed him with gentle ..."
2. With Kuroki in Manchuria by Frederick Palmer (1904)
"harikari is a particular form of death adopted because it tested the victim's
... harikari was never frequent. Duels were not frequent in the last century; ..."
3. Japan by Samuel Mossman (1880)
"Four more of the Kumamoto rebels went as fugitives to a private house, there to
put themselves out of reach of the enemy, and commit harikari. ..."
4. Pekin, Jeddo, and San Francisco: The Conclusion of a Voyage Round the World by Agnes Stephenson, Helen Stephenson, Ludovic Beauvoir (1872)
"In Japan as soon as a murder has been committed the assassin performs the harikari,
so as to prove that if he knows how to inflict death he also knows how ..."
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