tomoakira

Updated: May 5, 2025

Tomoakira, the seventeen-year-old son of Tomomori, deliberately sacrificed himself to save his father, and the latter, describing the incident subsequently to his brother, Munemori, said with tears: "A son died to save his father; a father fled, leaving his son to die. Were it done by another man, I should spit in his face. But I have done it myself. What will the world call me?"

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