BROTHER CADFAEL: MATTE KUDASAI, Toranaga-sama! I beg you to observe - a cut of this sort, regardless of its place on the belly, could only have been made by the ō-dachi, not by the wakizashi as is typical? Why use a tool for cutting down a horse for seppuku? This was no honorable sacrifice, but a murder most foul! I beg you to give me three days to uncover the culprit of this grave misdeed.
