Greetings all. A few days ago I received a private message from one lwegerich asking about the poem that's mentioned in my signature - for the unfamiliar of you:
After the battle of Yamazaki in 1582 Akechi Mitsutoshi performed the unprecedented act of committing seppuku and writing a poem on the door with the blood from his abdomen, using a brush.
lwegerich was interested in just what that poem was and whether I had a translation. Unfortunately I had to send him off empty handed because I only picked up the fact from a website. I've tried googling for the subject, but other than a small handful of pages making reference to the poem (usually not in a very certain sense), but nothing concrete. We've speculated that it might just be a myth. lwegerich said he'd make a post in a Japanese newsgroup on the subject and suggested that I do a similar thing here.
So! By incredible fluke, does anyone here know anything about the supposed incident, or know of someone/somewhere that an answer might be found? I'm dubious that there's a lot of information to find on such an obscure incident in history, but I have to agree with lwegerich that it would certainly be very interesting to read. I wonder what one writes at a moment like that???
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Originally Posted by mingshi
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