Eiji Yoshikawa
The expected honor-suicide of the samurai wife is frequently referenced in Japanese literature and film, such as in "Taiko" by Eiji Yoshikawa, "Humanity and Paper Balloons", and "Rashomon". "Seppuku" is referenced and described multiple times in the 1975 James Clavell novel, "Shōgun"; its subsequent 1980 miniseries "Shōgun" brought the term and the concept to mainstream Western attention. It was staged by the young protagonist in the 1971 dark American comedy "Harold and Maude".