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
Samurai Warriors 2 out of 100 for the X360 version. "Xtreme Legends" was met with very mixed to negative reception. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 53% and 50 out of 100 for the PS2 version, and 53% and 42 out of 100 for the X360 version. Samurai Warriors 2 "Samurai Warriors 3", the sequel to SW2 and the third game in the series was released in December 2009 for the Wii. The gameplay of "Samurai Warriors 2" builds on the first "Samurai Warriors" by adding new characters and new features, such as the removal of the traditional range attacks in