Seppuku known as harakiri (腹切り, "cutting the stomach"); the term "harakiri" (often misspelled/mispronounced "hiri-kiri" or hari-kari by English speakers) is more familiar to non-Japanese speakers than the term "seppuku". "Harakiri" is written with the same kanji as "Seppuku", but in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, the more formal "seppuku", a Chinese "on'yomi" reading, is typically used in writing, while "harakiri", a native "kun'yomi" reading, is used in speech. Ross notes, It is commonly pointed out that hara-kiri is a vulgarism, but this is a misunderstanding. Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or "Kun-yomi" of the characters; as it became customary
Way of the Samurai "Way of the Samurai" was also released on PlayStation Portable on September 18, 2008 in Japan; prior to the release of "Way of the Samurai 3". The story of "Way of the Samurai" takes place in 1878, after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the start of the Meiji period, during the Satsuma Rebellion, a time when the samurai who were once at the top of Japanese society are all but outlawed. The game begins with the player, taking the role of a wandering rōnin by the name of Kenji, arriving in a fictional outpost called Rokkotsu Pass. Rokkotsu