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 4 and Tadakatsu Honda, Mitsunari Ishida, Kanetsugu Naoe, Kunoichi, Ina, and Ieyasu Tokugawa in supporting roles. The ending of the special, which features cameos by Kagekatsu Uesugi and Nobunaga Oda, teases a full anime adaptation, simply titled "Samurai Warriors", again directed by Kojin Ochi and animated by TYO Animations, which aired between January 11, 2015 and March 29, 2015 for 12 episodes in total. It goes beyond the Siege of Ueda and covers the entire timeline of the game, ending on the Siege of Osaka, though it notably focuses on the Sanada clan. More characters are thus featured in the anime,