TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE ERA RODNEY DANGERFIELD: i tell you i get no respect. the daimyo says i have to commit seppuku to restore my house’s honor. okay. i write my death poem, no problem. i ask my wife if she’ll be my second and she says she wants to be my FIRST!

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  1. Twitter once blocked my account because I used the word "seppuku" but that was back when they were still a little woke. I wonder if X would do the same but I avoid that neighborhood so I won't try to find out.

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  2. This joke has caused the loss of much face. Not me, though. I wrote my high school thesis on the Tokugawa era and that knowledge was finally of some use today!

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  3. I have a book of Japanese poems and the context text for one of them explained a situation like, 90% like this. A Samurai was compelled to kill himself but then his wife ran over, wrote a poem about it and herself, and killed herself

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