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Huanjing bunao (traditional Chinese: 還精補腦; simplified Chinese: 还精补脑; lit. 'returning the semen/essence to replenish the brain' or coitus reservatus) is a Daoist sexual practice and yangsheng ("nourishing life") method aimed at maintaining arousal for an extended plateau phase while avoiding orgasm.
A kaishakunin (Japanese: 介錯人, lit. ' assist mistake person ') is a man appointed to behead an individual who has performed seppuku, Japanese ritual suicide, at the moment of agony. The role played by the kaishakunin is called kaishaku.
A Chinese print depicting "The Joining of the Essences", based on Tang Dynasty art. Taoist sexual practices (traditional Chinese: 房中術; simplified Chinese: 房中术; pinyin: fángzhōngshù; lit. 'arts of the bedchamber') are the ways Taoists may practice sexual activity.
Written during the Han dynasty, [4] the original text is lost, though it was partially preserved in the Japanese medical text Ishinpō (醫心方). [5] In 1903, Chinese sexologist Ye Dehui (葉德輝) published an almost fully reconstructed version of Yufang mijue, alongside four other ancient Chinese texts on sexuality; this was not well-received by the public, and in 1927 the Chinese ...
Seppuku (切腹, lit. ' cutting [the] belly '), also called harakiri (腹切り, lit. ' abdomen/belly cutting ', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment.
Mark Csikszentmihalyi says, "This text may date from the second to fifth centuries CE, and reflects the integration of ritualized visualization, invocation, and sexual techniques." [16] According to Andersen "It presents a wedding ritual, or perhaps one should rather say a rite of sexual union. In any case, sexual union takes place as a part of ...
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The ritual suicide was in accordance with the samurai practice of following one's master to death . [15] In his suicide letter, he said that he wished to expiate for his disgrace in Kyūshū, and for the thousands of casualties at Port Arthur. He also donated his body to medical science. [4] House of Maresuke Nogi in Nogizaka