RED THIN LINE Mug

Title: "RED THIN LINE" 薄赤色ライン - 切腹, Artist: Robert Zietara Size canvas 40 x 40 x 1.9 cm Media: Oil on canvas (unframed) Image of Japanese girl created on a canvas stretched on a frame My new painting illustrating a Japanese girl who is just about to commit ritual suicide formally known as Seppuku or harakiri. It usually involved cutting the abdomen open with a short sword, which was believed to immediately release the samurai's spirit to the afterlife. Seppuku was not only reserved for man. Women of the samurai class often committed seppuku if their husbands died in battle or were forced to kill themselves. Women would first bind their legs together with a silk cloth to prevent an unseemly posture after death.