While offering tea to the monk Takuan Soho, Iemitsu (1604–51, the third Tokugawa shogun) had his servants fire a gun out in the garden. It was a loud bang, but Takuan did not bat an eyelid.

He first killed a man at the age of thirteen! He makes short work of dozens of soldiers, and it's only the intervention of wily monk Takuan and Matahachi's heartbroken fiance, Otsu, that ...