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Who can fathom the depths
of another man's heart?
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Thanks to the shogunate's ruthless policy
of wiping out the provincial lords,
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countless samurai lost their masters
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and were cast out
to wander the depths of hell.
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How can those who never wanted for food
or clothing understand their misery?
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To those who find Motome
loathsome for his pleading, I ask:
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What if you found yourself
in the same position?
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Would you do any differently?
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After all,
this thing we call samurai honor
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is ultimately nothing but a facade.
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Is that your grievance?
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Grievance?
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Is that what you're trying to tell us?
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That samurai honor
is nothing but a facade?
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Yes.
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"Even if I say I want
to commit harakiri,
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they surely won't actually
make me do it."
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Such wishful thinking
is where these ronin go wrong.
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If a man says he wants
to commit harakiri, we will let him.
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In fact, since he has proposed it himself,
we'll make sure he does.
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That is the policy of the House of Iyi.
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For us, samurai honor
is no mere facade!
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And so Hanshiro Tsugumo too
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has come here
with no intention of committing harakiri,
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but rather out of deep bitterness
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over the manner in which the Iyi Clan
treated his son-in-law Motome Chijiiwa,
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and the desire to vent
his many grudges.