Shogun's Seppuku Explained: What Happened To The Baby

Shogun's Seppuku Explained: What Happened To The Baby

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[overthewebb]

The baby got killed, that is what happened

[boxtears]

Went to the baby farm, where all the babies can run around and roam free and happy.

[khanhlam]

Tadayoshi: "I ask permission to commit seppuku, and permission for my baby to commit sudoku." :)

[PROVOCATEURSK]

The boiling was plenty of times worse than what the baby experienced.

[luckyrockmore]

Had to explain this to my mother as we watched this, she just couldn't fathom why

[edithjarvisfriday]

Committed an offense and wanted to wipe clean.
West: Oh father forgive me for I have sinned.
East: Seppuku.

[miliba]

What if they made the baby disappear. For example donating it to a monastery and have its lineage officially renounced

[catrain]

I thought that I would also offer my child's life because I felt sorry for living as a "Usami's child" later, or that I avenged my father and tried not to commit a rebellion against the monarch.

[rawrsince]

There was usually another swordsman present to behead them, so as to not prolong the agony.

[gemmajoseph]

I get the importance of honour as defined in the samurai code but why did an innocence infant have to die? The baby is a baby the father spoke out of turn at a delicate meeting. The seppbuku on a baby is too much.

[swatzinatorhanselhoff]

Im glad i exist in a more enlightened age than 1600s

[marcsph]

It was a lot worse in the book. He was not allowed to commit Sepuku but instead crucified at an eta village and the baby ordered buried there as well.

“Your swords will be broken and buried in the eta village. Your son will be buried in the eta village. You head will be put on a spike for all the population to jeer at with a sign on it: ‘This man was born samurai by mistake. His name has ceased to be!’”

[angelabestauti]

Still crying about that infant😭poor baby

[yohanekina]

Japanese here. Seppuku was considered an honorable, dignified way to die by your own hands, compared to public execution by others. The man could have been beheaded in front of everyone, which was 10 times more humiliating. In the book, he was executed publicly in an agonizing, embarrassing way with his son. I know. That does not make it any better but worse lol.

I’m a Christian, and I actually appreciate Christian nations for abolishing our savage customs like seppuku, beheadings, and corporate punishments. Wait! Actually, we still do practice corporate punishments in a social way. If your dad hits someone while driving, you will be treated as a criminal too, shunned by everyone who knows about your dad. There is no mercy or forgiveness of Christ.

I am aware of all the brutality of western colonialism, but I can clearly see the stark difference between Christian and non Christian civilizations in the way they treat human life.

[JacobAndJamal]

I thought the Japanese leader said something about he was brave and he would see it that he lives ? I’m still confused about why the baby died

[TempleofBrendaSong]

I would go over there and off Tadayoshi myself for even scaring the baby.

[Zenkai.boost.Kekkei.Genkai]

killing a baby for such a stupid reason, these people are crazy bruh

[ameerahradhi]

Episode 1 was hard for me
The infant death
And burning man alive
Still I have to watch
This is real world and it is ugly truth

[lubystkaolamonola]

"I do not question his honor, I deny its existence." Killing baby was a barbarism not culture.

[lubystkaolamonola]

" I do not question his honor, I deny its existence." Killing baby was barbarism not culture.