Assertion: samurai | /r/CapableOf | commit suicide
Facets:
value: from experiencing undo
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: by an assassin
type: OTHER
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: due to his failure in his duty
type: CAUSE
value: to state his case
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Honor was valued above all things, and samurai were known to commit suicide to retain their honor.
text: A samurai would commit suicide to state his case or make his point to a lord when all other forms of persuasion had been proven ineffective.
text: A samurai would also commit suicide due to his failure in his duty of protecting his lord from being killed in battle, or by an assassin.
text: Just as a samurai often committed suicide when his lord had done so, the followers and retainers of a samurai were similarly expected to kill themselves on the loss of their master in a code known as junshi or 'death by following.'
text: His job was to prevent the samurai committing suicide from experiencing undo suffering by cutting the doomed man's head off once he had slit his belly.