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In the 1962 movie Harakiri, it is supposedly common for ronin to show up at a clan's palace and ask for a place to commit suicide, hoping the clan will pay to go away. Is there any record of this happening in Japan around 1630?

by /u/MisterBigStuff in /r/AskHistorians

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