This article discusses suicide and extreme violence.

Warning: This article contains Spoilers for Shogun's finale.

Yabushige learned Toranaga's true motives. Yabushige realized Toranaga's manipulation and his plot to become shgun. As a "man with no future," Yabushige got to hear everything from Toranaga himself.

Lord Toranaga smiled during Yabushiges seppuku in Shguns finale, subtly confirming Yabushiges suspicions about Toranagas true motives. Shgun episode 10 was very faithful to James Clavells novel and concluded the story without showing any major battles. Rather than depicting the Battle of Sekigahara between Toranagas forces and Ishidos, Shguns finale focused on revealing how Toranaga had been manipulating everything and everyone since the beginning of the show.

It did not take long for Yabushige to be exposed for helping Ishido attack the Osaka Castle, which directly led to Lady Marikos death in Shgun episode 9. Sentenced to commit seppuku, Yabushige asked Toranaga to be his second. Before it happened,...