hirate

Updated: April 30, 2025

Rough and careless, without any apparent dignity, he caused so much solicitude to his tutor and guardian, Hirate Masahide, and showed so much indifference to the latter's remonstrances, that finally Masahide had recourse to the faithful vassal's last expedient he committed suicide, leaving a letter in which the explanation of his act was accompanied by a stirring appeal to the better instincts of his pupil and ward.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era