Seppuku approaching her, they would find that she had ended her life long before they reached her. Stephen R. Turnbull provides extensive evidence for the practice of female ritual suicide, notably of samurai wives, in pre-modern Japan. One of the largest mass suicides was the 25 April 1185 final defeat of Taira no Tomomori establishing Minamoto power. The wife of Onodera Junai, one of the Forty-seven Ronin, is a notable example of a wife following seppuku of a samurai husband. A large number of honor suicides marked the defeat of the Aizu clan in the Boshin War of 1869, leading into
Battle of Nagashino and ignored aid to the latter. The Battle of Nagashino is a significant part of many PlayStation 2 games, predominantly Koei's "Kessen III" and "Samurai Warriors". If Shingen is the playable character in "Samurai Warriors", there is a 'what-if' situation which examines what would have happened if he had not died: Shingen successfully reads the feint, and does not charge. It then starts raining, rendering the arquebuses worthless except as clubs. Only then would the Takeda cavalry charge, completely routing the Oda–Tokugawa combined forces. Likewise, this can be done in Uesugi Kenshin's Story in "Samurai Warriors 2" where due to