masanori's

Updated: August 22, 2026

So conspicuous were his virtues and so attractive was his personality that a samurai of the Akamatsu family, who had planned a vendetta against him, committed suicide himself rather than raise his hand to slay such a hero. How, then, are we to account for Masanori's infidelity to the cause he had embraced?

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