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7. divizija

Seznam divizij z zaporedno številko 7.

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- 7. divizija (Avstralija)
- 7. divizija (Združeno kraljestvo)
- 7. pehotna divizija (Združeno kraljestvo)
- 7. pehotna divizija (ZDA)

Oklepne


- 7. oklepna divizija (ZDA)
- 7. oklepna divizija (Združeno kraljestvo)

Gorske


- 7. SS-prostovoljna gorska divizija »Prinz Eugen«

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- seznam pehotnih divizij
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7 (število)

: Glej tudi leto 7 ---- 7 (sédem) je naravno število, za katerega velja 7 = 6 + 1 = 8 - 1.

Razvoj števke

Razvoj števke 7 od Indijcev do Evropejcev

V matematiki


- Mersennovo praštevilo 7 = 23 - 1.
- Newman-Shanks-Williamsonovo praštevilo.
- drugo Woodallovo praštevilo.
- drugo varno praštevilo.
- drugo središčno šesterokotniško število 7 = T_1 \cdot 2 + 1; \quad (T_1=3).
- četrto palindromno praštevilo.
- četrto fakultetno praštevilo 7 = 3! + 1.
- tretje srečno število in drugo srečno praštevilo.
- četrto desetiško samoštevilo.
- Harshadovo število.
- drugo veselo število.

V znanosti

Vrstno število 7 ima dušik (N).

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- leta 7 pr. n. št., 7, 1907, 2007 ja:7 th:7 (จำนวน)

7. oklepna divizija (Združeno kraljestvo)

7. oklepna divizija (angleško 7. Armoured Division) je britanska elitna oklepna divizija.

Zgodovina

Organizacija

Organizacija med drugo svetovno vojno

Trenutna formacija


- 7. oklepna brigada "Puščavske podgane"
- : Kraljevska garda škotskih dragoncev
- : Kraljičini kraljevski irski huzarji
- : 1. bataljon Kraljičine garde dragoncev
- : 1. bataljon Staffordshirskega polka
- : 40. polk korpusne artilerije
- : 10. baterija zračne obrambe Kraljevske artilerije
- : 21. inženirski polk
- : 207. četa zvez
- : 654. eskadrilja Letalskega korpusa KOV
- 4. oklepna brigada
- : 14./20. kraljevi huzarji
- : 3. bataljon Kraljevskega polka mušketirjev
- : 1. kraljevski škotski bataljon
- : 2. polk korpusne artilerije
- : 46. baterija zračne obrambe Kraljevske artilerije
- : 23. inženirski polk
- : 204. četa zvez
- : 659. eskadrilja Letalskega korpusa KOV
- Divizijske enote
- : 16./5. kraljičini kraljevski suličarji
- : 32. polk armadne artilerije
- : 39. polk armadne artilerije
- : 26. polk korpusne artilerije
- : 12. polk zračne obrambe
- : 32. oklepni inženirski polk
- : 1. oklepni transportni polk
- : 4. oklepni transportni polk
- : 1. oklepna poljska bolnišnica
- : 5. oklepna poljska bolnišnica
- : 3. artilerijsko-tehnični bataljon
- : 7. oklepna delavnica
- : 11. oklepna delavnica
- : 4. polk Letalskega korpusa KOV

Oborožitev in oprema

Operacije


- Operacija Puščavska nevihta (Kuvajt, 1991)

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- primeri oklepnih divizij Kategorija:Elitne enote Kategorija:Oklepne divizije Kategorija:Kopenska vojska Združenega kraljestva

Hare kari

:Harakiri redirects here. For the 1962 film by Masaki Kobayashi, see Harakiri (film). Seppuku (切腹 lit."stomach-cutting" or "belly slicing") is a Japanese word that means ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku is better known in English as hara-kiri (腹切り) and is written with the same kanji as seppuku but in reverse order with an okurigana. However, in Japanese hara-kiri is considered a colloquial and somewhat vulgar term. The practice of committing seppuku at the death of one's master is known as oibara (追腹 or 追い腹); the ritual is similar.

Overview

Seppuku was a key part of bushido, the code of the samurai warriors; it was used by warriors to avoid falling into enemy hands, and to attenuate shame. Samurai could also be ordered by their daimyo (feudal lords) to commit seppuku. In later years, disgraced warriors were sometimes allowed to commit seppuku rather than be executed in the normal manner. Since the main point of the act was to restore or protect one's honor as a warrior, those who did not belong to the samurai caste were never ordered or expected to commit seppuku. In his book The Samurai Way of Death, Samurai: The World of the Warrior (ch.4), Dr. Stephen Turnbull states: :Seppuku was commonly performed using a dagger. It could take place with preparation and ritual in the privacy of one’s home, or speedily in a quiet corner of a battlefield while one’s comrades kept the enemy at bay. :In the world of the warrior, seppuku was a deed of bravery that was admirable in a samurai who knew he was defeated, disgraced, or mortally wounded. It meant that he could end his days with his transgressions wiped away and with his reputation not merely intact but actually enhanced. The cutting of the abdomen released the samurai’s spirit in the most dramatic fashion, but it was an extremely painful and unpleasant way to die, and sometimes the samurai who was performing the act asked a loyal comrade to cut off his head at the moment of agony. Sometimes a daimyo was called upon to perform seppuku as the basis of a peace agreement. This would so weaken the defeated clan that resistance would effectively cease. Toyotomi Hideyoshi used an enemy's suicide in this way on several occasions, the most dramatic of which effectively ended a dynasty of daimyo forever, when the Hojo were defeated at Odawara in 1590. Hideyoshi insisted on the suicide of the retired daimyo Hojo Ujimasa, and the exile of his son Ujinao. With one sweep of a sword the most powerful daimyo family in eastern Japan disappeared from history.

Ritual

Ujinao Ujinao, prepares for her suicide; note the legs tied together, a female feature of seppuku to ensure a "decent" posture in death]] In time, committing seppuku came to involve a detailed ritual. Dressed ceremonially, with his sword placed in front of him and sometimes seated on special cloths, the warrior would prepare for death by writing a death poem. With his selected attendant (kaishakunin, his second) standing by, he would open his kimono (clothing), take up his wakizashi (short sword) or a tanto (knife) and plunge it into his abdomen, making first a left-to-right cut and then a second slightly upward stroke to spill out the intestines. On the second stroke, the kaishakunin would perform daki-kubi, a cut in which the warrior is all but decapitated (a slight band of flesh is left attaching the head to the body). Because of the precision necessary for such a maneuver, the second was often a skilled swordsman. The principal agrees in advance when the kaishaku makes his cut, usually as soon as the dirk is plunged into the abdomen. The second was usually, but not always, a friend. If a warrior had fought honourably and well but lost, an opponent who wanted to salute his bravery would volunteer to act as his second. In the Hagakure, Yamamoto Tsunetomo wrote: :From ages past it has been considered ill-omened by samurai to be requested as kaishaku. The reason for this is that one gains no fame even if the job is well done. And if by chance one should blunder, it becomes a lifetime disgrace. :In the practice of past times, there were instances when the head flew off. It was said that it was best to cut leaving a little skin remaining so that it did not fly off in the direction of the verifying officials. However, at present it is best to cut clean through. Some samurai chose to perform a considerably more taxing form of seppuku known as jūmonji-giri (十文字切り, lit. "cross-shaped cut"), in which there is no kaishakunin to put a quick end to the samurai's suffering. It involves a second and more painful vertical cut across the belly. A samurai performing jumonji-giri was expected to bear his suffering quietly until perishing from loss of blood.

Seppuku as capital punishment

While the voluntary seppuku described above is the best known form and has been widely admired and idealized, in practice the most common form of seppuku was obligatory seppuku, used as a form of capital punishment for disgraced samurai. If the sentenced was uncooperative, it was not unheard for them to be restrained, or for the actual execution to be carried out by decapitation while retaining only the trappings of seppuku; even the short sword laid out in front of the victim could be replaced with a fan. Unlike voluntary seppuku, seppuku carried out as capital punishment did not necessarily absolve the victim's family of the crime. Depending on the severity of the crime, half or all of the deceased's property may have been confiscated, and the family may also be stripped of rank.

The Western experience

The first time a Westerner saw formal seppuku was the "Sakai Incident" of 1868. On February 15, twenty French sailors of the Dupleix entered a Japanese town called Sakai without official permission. Their presence caused panic among the residents. Security forces were dispatched to turn the sailors back to their ship, but a fight broke out and 11 sailors were shot dead. Upon the protest of the French representative, compensation of 15,000 yen was paid and those responsible were sentenced to death. The French captain was present to observe the execution. As each samurai committed ritual disembowelment, the gruesome nature of the act shocked the captain, and he requested a pardon due to which nine of the samurai were spared. This incident was dramatized in a famous short story, Sakai Jiken, by Mori Ogai. In the 1860s, The British Ambassador to Japan, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford (Lord Redesdale) lived within eyesight of Sengaku-ji where the Forty-seven Ronin are buried. In his book Tales of Old Japan, he describes a man who had come to the graves to kill himself: :I will add one anecdote to show the sanctity which is attached to the graves of the Forty-seven. In the month of September 1868, a certain man came to pray before the grave of Oishi Chikara. Having finished his prayers, he deliberately performed hara-kiri,[8] and, the belly wound not being mortal, dispatched himself by cutting his throat. Upon his person were found papers setting forth that, being a Ronin and without means of earning a living, he had petitioned to be allowed to enter the clan of the Prince of Choshiu, which he looked upon as the noblest clan in the realm; his petition having been refused, nothing remained for him but to die, for to be a Ronin was hateful to him, and he would serve no other master than the Prince of Choshiu: what more fitting place could he find in which to put an end to his life than the graveyard of these Braves? This happened at about two hundred yards' distance from my house, and when I saw the spot an hour or two later, the ground was all bespattered with blood, and disturbed by the death-struggles of the man. Mitford also describes his friend's eyewitness account of a Seppuku: :There are many stories on record of extraordinary heroism being displayed in the hara-kiri. The case of a young fellow, only twenty years old, of the Choshiu clan, which was told me the other day by an eye-witness, deserves mention as a marvellous instance of determination. Not content with giving himself the one necessary cut, he slashed himself thrice horizontally and twice vertically. Then he stabbed himself in the throat until the dirk protruded on the other side, with its sharp edge to the front; setting his teeth in one supreme effort, he drove the knife forward with both hands through his throat, and fell dead. During the Meiji Restoration, the Tokugawa Shogun's aide committed Seppuku: :One more story and I have done. During the revolution, when the Tycoon, beaten on every side, fled ignominiously to Yedo, he is said to have determined to fight no more, but to yield everything. A member of his second council went to him and said, “Sir, the only way for you now to retrieve the honour of the family of Tokugawa is to disembowel yourself; and to prove to you that I am sincere and disinterested in what I say, I am here ready to disembowel myself with you.” The Tycoon flew into a great rage, saying that he would listen to no such nonsense, and left the room. His faithful retainer, to prove his honesty, retired to another part of the castle, and solemnly performed the hara-kiri. In his book Tales of Old Japan, Mitford describes witnessing a hara-kiri [http://www.blackmask.com/thatway/books162c/taja.htm]: :As a corollary to the above elaborate statement of the ceremonies proper to be observed at the hara-kiri, I may here describe an instance of such an execution which I was sent officially to witness. The condemned man was Taki Zenzaburo, an officer of the Prince of Bizen, who gave the order to fire upon the foreign settlement at Hiogo in the month of February 1868,—an attack to which I have alluded in the preamble to the story of the Eta Maiden and the Hatamoto. Up to that time no foreigner had witnessed such an execution, which was rather looked upon as a traveller's fable. :The ceremony, which was ordered by the Mikado himself, took place at 10:30 at night in the temple of Seifukuji, the headquarters of the Satsuma troops at Hiogo. A witness was sent from each of the foreign legations. We were seven foreigners in all. :"After another profound obeisance, Taki Zenzaburo, in a voice which betrayed just so much emotion and hesitation as might be expected from a man who is making a painful confession, but with no sign of either in his face or manner, spoke as follows:— :"I, and I alone, unwarrantably gave the order to fire on the foreigners at Kobe, and again as they tried to escape. For this crime I disembowel myself, and I beg you who are present to do me the honour of witnessing the act." :Bowing once more, the speaker allowed his upper garments to slip down to his girdle, and remained naked to the waist. Carefully, according to custom, he tucked his sleeves under his knees to prevent himself from falling backwards; for a noble Japanese gentleman should die falling forwards. Deliberately, with a steady hand, he took the dirk that lay before him; he looked at it wistfully, almost affectionately; for a moment he seemed to collect his thoughts for the last time, and then stabbing himself deeply below the waist on the left-hand side, he drew the dirk slowly across to the right side, and, turning it in the wound, gave a slight cut upwards. During this sickeningly painful operation he never moved a muscle of his face. When he drew out the dirk, he leaned forward and stretched out his neck; an expression of pain for the first time crossed his face, but he uttered no sound. At that moment the kaishaku, who, still crouching by his side, had been keenly watching his every movement, sprang to his feet, poised his sword for a second in the air; there was a flash, a heavy, ugly thud, a crashing fall; with one blow the head had been severed from the body. :A dead silence followed, broken only by the hideous noise of the blood throbbing out of the inert heap before us, which but a moment before had been a brave and chivalrous man. It was horrible. :The kaishaku made a low bow, wiped his sword with a piece of rice paper which he had ready for the purpose, and retired from the raised floor; and the stained dirk was solemnly borne away, a bloody proof of the execution. :The two representatives of the Mikado then left their places, and, crossing over to where the foreign witnesses sat, called us to witness that the sentence of death upon Taki Zenzaburo had been faithfully carried out. The ceremony being at an end, we left the temple. :The ceremony, to which the place and the hour gave an additional solemnity, was characterized throughout by that extreme dignity and punctiliousness which are the distinctive marks of the proceedings of Japanese gentlemen of rank; and it is important to note this fact, because it carries with it the conviction that the dead man was indeed the officer who had committed the crime, and no substitute. While profoundly impressed by the terrible scene it was impossible at the same time not to be filled with admiration of the firm and manly bearing of the sufferer, and of the nerve with which the kaishaku performed his last duty to his master."

Seppuku in modern Japan

Seppuku as judicial punishment was officially abolished in 1873, shortly after the Meiji Restoration, but voluntary seppuku did not completely die out. Dozens of people are known to have committed seppuku since then, including a large group of military men who committed suicide in 1895 as a protest against the return of a conquered territory to China; by General Nogi and his wife on the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912; and by numerous soldiers and civilians who chose to die rather than surrender at the end of World War II. In 1970, famed author Yukio Mishima and one of his followers committed public seppuku at the Japan Self-Defense Forces headquarters after an unsuccessful attempt to incite the armed forces to stage a coup d'etat. Mishima committed seppuku in the office of General Kanetoshi Mashita. His second, a 25-year-old named Morita, tried three times to ritually behead Mishima but failed; his head was finally severed by Hiroyasu Koga. Morita then attempted to commit seppuku himself. Although his own cuts were too shallow to be fatal, he gave the signal and he too was beheaded by Koga. Some believe the 1990 suicide of the father of Japanese serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki should be considered seppuku. In 1999, Masaharu Nonaka, a 58 year old employee of Bridgestone in Japan, slashed his belly with a sashimi knife to protest his forced retirement. He died later in the hospital. This suicide was dubbed risutora (downsizing/lay-off) seppuku by the mass media, and was said to represent the difficulties in Japan following the collapse of the bubble economy.

Well-known people who committed seppuku


- Yukio Mishima
- Sen no Rikyu
- Anami Korechika
- Maresuke Nogi

In pop culture

Seppuku features prominently in Western depictions of pre-Meiji Japan in books, movies, videogames, etc. such as The Last Samurai or the novel Shogun. Some video games give players the option of committing seppuku: Mortal Kombat: Deception adds a new "Fatality" feature to the series called "Hara-kiri," which allows a defeated player to kill himself in a graphic manner before his opponent can. In American media, particular television and film from the 1940s-1960s era, the term "hara-kiri" was often mispronounced as "Harry Carry". (See, for example, the TV series McHale's Navy). In the manga/anime Ranma ½, Genma promised his wife Nodoka that he would raise his son Ranma to be a man among men. If he failed, both him and Ranma would commit seppuku. Ranma falls into a cursed spring that causes him to turn into a girl when splashed with cold water, and Genma (who changes into a panda with cold water) hides Ranma and himself whenever Nodoka comes around. Ranma often called him/herself Ranko to spend time with his mother, although she doesn't find out until late in the manga. Eventually Nodoka finds out and declares Ranma to be a man despite the curse, so no one had to commit seppuku. For the most part, seppuku is depicted in popular culture as marking a true warrior's ethos and the (stereotypical) mystical Eastern understanding of death. The dutiful suicide of seppuku is often seen as a uniquely Japanese cultural trait, although the Western tradition has its share of historical figures who have killed themselves when facing dishonor, death or both at the hands of their enemies. The television adaptation of Shogun, produced in 1980, sparked an upswing of interest in all things Japanese, including the ritual of seppuku; in one dubious reference to the practice, the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes featured an episode in which Gary Coleman's character Arnold Drummond dresses in Japanese robes and announces his intent to commit seppuku (though this is done in a humorous fashion). In Raymond Benson's James Bond book The Man with the Red Tattoo, the main villain, Yami Shogun Goro Yoshida commits seppuku just before Bond could capture him. Yasutake Tsukamoto, yakuza leader and Yoshida's secundant, tells Bond that Yoshida won, because he "robbed Bond of the ultimate victory". Bond tells Tsukamoto that he does not care about it, because "he's bloody dead and that's all that matters." In Giacomo Puccini's opera, Madame Butterfly, the heroine Cio-cio-san, commits Seppuku at the end of the final act. Unit leaders in computer strategy game Shogun: Total War may commit seppuku if the units they command are defeated in combat too many times. In the computer game Warcraft III the night elf demon hunters commit ritual suicide as part of their death animation. In the console fighting game Tekken 2, the character Yoshimitsu has a move wherin he turns away from the enemy and stabs his sword through his stomach and out his back. If the sword connects with Yoshimitsu's opponent, it causes devastating damage to them, and minor damage to Yoshimitsu himself. However, if it misses, it can drain almost half of Yoshimitsu's life, meaning that it can easily kill him, or make a match almost impossible to go in his favour. The cult website [http://www.realultimatepower.net/ realultimatepower.net] describes a darkly hilarious method of committing seppuku by swallowing a Frisbee. The website [http://www.ninjaburger.com/ ninjaburger.com], a parody of fast food delivery services, states on their webpage: Guaranteed delivery in 30 minutes or less, or we commit Seppuku! In the American film Harold and Maude, the character Harold, a young man obsessed with death, fakes his own suicide in a multitude of ways. At one point, he brings out a blade and educates a woman in the art of "hara-kiri" before going through with the (faked) ritual. Seppuku is depicted twice on the American film The Last Samurai, at the beginning of the movie after the general of the Japanese newly formed army faces defeat in the hands of Katsumoto's (played by Ken Watanabe) forces, and later, near the end of the film, with Katsumoto committing seppuku after his army is killed to the last man (all but Nathan Algren (played by Tom Cruise)). In the first instance we see Katsumoto in the role of kaishaku, beheading General Hasegawa to quickly end his suffering. This action comes as a shock to Algren, who sees it as a barbaric form of execution. Finally, defeated on the battlefield it is Algren who helps Katsumoto to end his life with honor by pushing the dagger all the way into his friend's stomach.

See also


- Kamikaze
- Yukio Mishima
- Japanese funeral
- Nakano Seigo
- Google seppuku
- Jigai

Further reading


- Jack Seward, Hara-Kiri: Japanese Ritual Suicide (Charles E. Tuttle, 1968)
- Seppuku - A Practical Guide http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml
- An Account of the Hara-Kiri from Mitford's "Tales of Old Japan" provides a detailed description: http://www.blackmask.com/thatway/books162c/taja.htm
- The samurai way of death --a chapter from "Samurai: The World of the Warrior" by Dr. Stephen Turnbull http://www.ospreysamurai.com/samurai_death02.htm
- [http://www.win.net/ratsnest/archive-articles21/fog0000000384.html The Fine Art of Seppuku]
- Zuihoden - The mausoleum of Date Masamune -- When he died, twenty of his followers killed themselves to serve him in the next life. They lay in state at Zuihoden http://www.zuihoden.com/ Category:Suicide Category:Japanese terms Category:Japanese culture ja:切腹

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