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There is no citation regarding the bamboo sword decapitation in James Clavell's novel Shogun. However, this is accurate. The death of the individual Sugitani Zenjubō is NOT depicted - it is the novel's main antagonist, Ishido, that dies in this fashion.

From the Wikipedia entry on the novel: "In a brief epilogue after the final Battle of Sekigahara, Ishido is captured alive and Toranaga has him buried up to his neck. The novel states that "Ishido lingered three days and died very old". "

This lingering death scene parallels the historical Sugitani Zenjubō's death, and it is likely that Clavell included it with knowledge of the historical event due to his research on 17th Century Japan and the life of Nobunaga.

There is a move request to make beheaded -> beheaded (disambiguation) so that beheaded can redirect here. -- Green C 05:41, 10 June 2022 (UTC) reply

It took a bit of digging to get to the bottom of this. The article has {{ 1728}}, indicating text was taken from the 1728 Cyclopædia. Why? A timeline:

• May 18, 2007 Brian0918 added some "trivia" from the 1728 Decollation entry, citing the source with {{1728}}. The original can be found here.
• June 5, 2007 The {{1728 talk}} template was added to the talk page, due to the existence of {{1728}} in the article.
• May 12, 2008 The relevant text was removed from the article, including the citation. However, the talk template was not removed.
• January 23, 2009 Eastlaw re-added {{1728}} to the bottom of the article, one of many similar edits that day, apparently based on the now-spurious talk page template.
• January 28, 2009 Yobot removed the talk page template, citing Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 March 24.

So, there is no reason for {{1728}} to stay in the article, and I am removing it. Tim Starling ( talk) 11:35, 9 December 2022 (UTC) reply

In this article it is described that Hume witnessed the execution of Margaret Pole, but how can that be? Because she died in 1541 and David Hume was born in 1711? 85.146.39.44 ( talk) 13:08, 20 October 2023 (UTC) reply