User:Albert Lento/Seppuku/Bibliography

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'''Perez LG. Hara-kiri (Seppuku). In: Japan at War. Bloomsbury Publishing USA; 2013. (P. 110-111)'''

This section of this book is about Hara-Kiri also called Seppuku. This discusses what Seppuku is, when people did this, and how it was performed. It also discusses the first recorded account of Seppuku which was done by Minamoto Tametomo in 1177. Minamoto was a bowman who reportedly was seven feet tall. Minamoto committed Seppuku when he tried to take control of the island Oshima and the Taira sent a military to stop him. The author of this book is Louis G. Perez who received his PhD from the University of Michigan and has published many works on aspects of Japanese history. Perez has the credentials of a scholar and has written many things on scholarly subjects however I couldn’t find much else about him, like how the scholarly word perceives his books. This may not be an amazing source due to the lack of information on the author. This book says that Minamoto Tametomo was the first person to commit Seppuku in 1177, however, the Wiki article says that Minamoto no Yorimasa was the first one to commit Seppuku in 1180. Assuming that the book that I found is accurate (I would probably have to do more research to figure this out), then we could slightly change the Wiki article to who really did commit Seppuku first.

'''Ravina, Mark J. (2010). "The Apocryphal Suicide of Saigō Takamori: Samurai, "Seppuku", and the Politics of Legend". The Journal of Asian Studies. 69 (3): 691–721.'''

This Wiki article is about Seppuku, ritualistic suicide of the samurai class in Japan. The article discusses the evolution of seppuku and its significance. Samurai would carry out seppuku if they did something deemed dishonorable or if they committed a crime. Some retainers of lords would even commit seppuku as a way to protest a lord's decision. The source that I decided to review was a section of a book about a samurai named Saigo. Saigo led a rebellion against the newly formed Japanese government (a little after he helped to overthrow the shogunate) because he and other samurai were dissatisfied with the new government. After the rebellion was defeated, Saigo committed Seppuku. Saigo’s death represented the end of the Samurai era. This book is only used in the wiki article for definitions of what seppuku is and when it was used. Saigo is however mentioned in the section of the article mentioning notable cases of seppuku, each name in this section has a link to another wiki article about said person. This book makes sense to include in the wiki article because it is important to know when people would use seppuku and to know when people would do this act of suicide.

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