Similarly, many Japanese samurai warriors in the past had quoted aspects of this particular famous phrase by Sun Tzu.

过去日本有很多武士，也特别喜欢引用孙子的这个讲法。

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Seppuku (Hara-Kiri) 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.

切腹自杀是日本武士阶级信奉的武士道的重要部分；往往切腹自杀是为了防止自己落入敌人之手，借以此来洗刷耻辱。

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Defeated warriors (samurai) often resorted to hara-kiri.

落败的武士总是采用切腹的死法。

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In Japan, Samurai warriors would carry out Seppuku, a ritual suicide by disembowelment, rather than fall into enemy hands.

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Three of his films were remade in the West, including Seven Samurai, his 1954 epic of freelance warriors who help a village of farmers beat their plowshares into swords (as The Magnificent Seven).

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In the Edo period, when the vast majority of the objects on display were made, the samurai evolved from hired archers and swordsmen to an elite class of warriors respected for their military skills, education and refinement.

WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence