Seppuku San story by John Luther Long. Though both Long's story and Puccini's opera predate Hearn's use of the term "jigai", the term has been used in relation to western japonisme which is the influence of Japanese culture on the western arts. While the voluntary seppuku described above is the best known form, in practice the most common form of seppuku was obligatory seppuku, used as a form of capital punishment for disgraced samurai, especially for those who committed a serious offence such as rape, robbery, corruption, unprovoked murder or treason. The samurai were generally told of their offense in full
Samurai Warriors 2 33 days using 25 actors. Samurai Warriors 2: Empires (戦国無双2 Empires) is an expansion to the original "Samurai Warriors 2" and the third Empires expansion by Koei (The first was "", and the second was ""), available for PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360, as well as PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in a compilation with the original and "Xtreme Legends". The game was first released in Japan on November 16, 2006. Very similar to both "Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires" and "Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires", the game features the strategic and tactical Empire Mode that combines the gameplay of "Samurai Warriors"