| This man, a superior samurai named Yogo Zenemon, has been ordered by the lord, for his own reasons, to commit hara-kiri, or ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. |
| The story describes, with obvious admiration, a young army officer who commits seppuku, or ritual disembowelment, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Japanese emperor. |
| Maybe it was just some weird ritual disembowelment or something. |
| There are other terrible conclusions — defenestration, decapitation, disembowelment — but they have a certain élan, as in Jacobean tragedy. |
| Dismemberment, disembowelment and evisceration abound and Ayer delights in the aftermath of ritualistic slaughter. |
| Was it possible that she had actually lived through the disembowelment? |
