阿部一族 = The Abe clan
In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei (1924.2.30-1644.12.16), Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him into death, one after another they still committed seppuku. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but as a result was labelled as a coward by his comrades. He decides to follow Tadatoshi into death in order to save his family's honor. But Mitsunao decides to punish the Abe family for Yaichiemon's action. In protest against their treatment the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in
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