Seppuku approaching her, they would find that she had ended her life long before they reached her. Stephen R. Turnbull provides extensive evidence for the practice of female ritual suicide, notably of samurai wives, in pre-modern Japan. One of the largest mass suicides was the 25 April 1185 final defeat of Taira no Tomomori establishing Minamoto power. The wife of Onodera Junai, one of the Forty-seven Ronin, is a notable example of a wife following seppuku of a samurai husband. A large number of honor suicides marked the defeat of the Aizu clan in the Boshin War of 1869, leading into
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,