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He would have, but women samurai weren't allowed to have a second. They also didn't kill themselves the way the movie was portraying. They slit their own throats.

Her having a second is apparently true to the original text (it was someone different who stepped in as her second in the book, I don’t want to spoil that for folks who may want to read later).

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Posted by Buckeye Backer

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Member since Aug 2009

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Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:38 am to BluegrassBelle

I have never read the book, so the last episode was jaw dropping for me. When Mariko was about to kill herself...i was screaming "No way...no fricking way"...and then Ishido comes in and i was like "whewwww"...and then they play with my emotions and turn right around and kill her anyway. First Hiromatsu..and now Mariko...Lord Toranaga and Blackthorne are gonna frick some shite up...and i cannot wait!!

This show better clean up at the Emmy's!!!!

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Posted by DukeSilver

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Posted on 4/18/24 at 9:05 am to BluegrassBelle

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Her having a second is apparently true to the original text (it was someone different who stepped in as her second in the book, I don’t want to spoil that for folks who may want to read later).

Yeah, they were definitely allowed to have seconds.

It just wasn't as necessary. They did do the dagger to the heart, but they put the dagger against the ground pointing up and fell on it with all of their weight on their heart. So just a more immediately/guaranteed lethal way of doing it rather than slicing your belly which could take a long time to actually die from.

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