his lord
to the
death, and
his
right-about-face
of
extravagant
enmity
when he
felt
himself
insulted.
A good
example is
from the
stories
about
Ieyasu,
the first
Tokugawa
Shogun. It
was
reported
to one of
his
retainers
that
Ieyasu had
said of
him, ‘He
is the
sort of
fellow who
will die
of a
fishbone
stuck in
his
throat.’
The
imputation
that he
would die
in an
undignified
manner was
not to be
borne, and
the
retainer
