Minamoto-no-Yorimasa's death is argued by some to be the earliest record of a samurai committing seppuku in defeat.

Beside Byōdō-in's Kannon-do (観音堂), built around 1230, is a fan-shaped stretch of lawn called 'Ogi-no-shiba' (扇の芝), upon which Yorimasa likely killed himself.

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