Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index
"Following one's lord into death". Sacrifice and self-sacrifice ; The Japanese custom of junshi -- Nogi in history. Nogi's life sentences ; The sword and the brush -- Nogi in literature. Mori Ōgai's junshi stories. "Okitsu Yagoemon no isho" (first version): junshi postponed ; "Sahashi Jingorō": anything but seppuku ; "Okitsu Yagoemon no isho" (second version): a spectacle for the lord's successor ; "Abe ichizoku": the perplexities of permission ; Mori Ōgai's "Sakai jiken": rebellion and martyrdom ; Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro: living as though dead -- Coda: last stands in ancient Rome and modern Japan
