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 Chinese music and rock collaborations in the "Dynasty Warriors" series, "Samurai Warriors" combines traditional Japanese instrumentals with techno. The sounds of both "Samurai Warriors" and "Dynasty Warriors" are combined in their crossover game, "Warriors Orochi". Samurai Warriors: Xtreme Legends (or Samurai Warriors XL for short) is a PlayStation 2 expansion disc for "Samurai Warriors". Just like the "Dynasty Warriors" series, the aim of these expansions is solely to add more content to the game. Players can use the "Import" feature (through switching discs with the original game) to use all features of the original game. Without the original game disc,