Seppuku he requested a pardon, as a result of which nine of the samurai were spared. This incident was dramatised in a famous short story, "Sakai Jiken", by Mori Ōgai. In the 1860s, the British Ambassador to Japan, Algernon Freeman-Mitford (Lord Redesdale), lived within sight 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: Mitford also describes his friend's eyewitness account of a seppuku: During the Meiji Restoration, the Tokugawa Shogun's aide performed seppuku: In his book "Tales of Old Japan", Mitford
The Warriors of Spider believe Spider is the name of God and the Santos, a mix of Christian and Mexican beliefs, who call God Haysoos, are all about warfare and following what they interpret God is telling them what to do. The Warriors of Spider The Warriors of Spider is the first book in the Spider Trilogy, written by W. Michael Gear and first published in 1988. The story is set roughly 600 years in the future, sometime between 2600 and 2700. This book contains much of the same themes as the Forbidden Borders trilogy of worshiping God though experience. The human race consists