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Connoisseurs wait for the set pieces: the colorful parade of the courtesan, a poignant seppuku suicide, the exciting fight scenes, and — summit of the art of kabuki — the end of a love affair that the heroine must break off, perhaps to save her lover’s honor, but never because she no longer loves him.
His death in 1591 by seppuku (the ritual disemboweling more crudely known to Westerners as harakiri) was in fact commanded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, his former friend and patron.