tsumaro

Updated: May 28, 2025

And during this reign of Yuryaku, when Lord Otomo was killed in a fatal engagement with the Sinra troops, his henchman, Tsumaro, crying, "My master has fallen; what avails that I alone should remain unhurt?" threw himself into the ranks of the enemy and perished. Loyalty to the death characterized the Japanese in every age.

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