In a final act of protest, Torri reveals he had committed Seppuku a short while earlier, but was concealing the gaping wound in his stomach.
Torri argues that wooden swords would prove more than sufficient and with the nation long enjoying peace time, desecrating the garden of Sunpu Castle with blood would surely be interpreted as an expression of rebellion against the Shogunate. He pleads with Tokugawa Tadanaga against holding a tournament inside the Castle, for which 21 contestants will employ the use of real swords. Years earlier, in January 1629 at Sunpu Castle, Torri Naritsugu, the Governor of Tosa, appears before officials in intense pain. Tokugawa Tadanaga, Lord of Sunpu Castle and the younger brother of Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, has been sentenced to commit seppuku on being found guilty of immoral conduct and atrocities. The story begins at Sunpu Castle on December 6th 1633.
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