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 , a social spin-off game released on April 22, 2014 for the mobile phones also to commemorate the series' 10th anniversary. Koei Tecmo also collaborated with the Japanese Racing Association (JRA) to release on May 25, 2014 for the PC. "Derby Musou" reuses assets from "Samurai Warriors 4" to create a horse racing game, like that of the "Winning Post" series, with famous Japanese racehorses. Eight characters from "Samurai Warriors 4" make up the playable cast, plus Matthew C. Perry (known in-game as just Perry). The game received a revision, titled , which was released in Japan on February 11,