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Sagara Kyuma was completely at one with his master and served him as though his own body were already dead. He was one man in a thousand.
Once there was an important meeting at Master Sakyo's Mizugae Villa, and it was commanded that Kyuma was to commit seppuku. At that time, in Osaki there was a tea-house on the third floor of the suburban residence of Master Taku Nui. Kyuma rented this, and gathering together all the good-for-nothings in Saga, he put on a puppet show, operating one of the puppets himself, carousing and drinking all day and night. Thus, overlooking Master Sakyo's villa, he carried on and caused a great disturbance.. In instigating this disaster he gallantly thought only of his master and was resolved to committing suicide.

(There is a note on this saying he may have been trying to cover up some crime or something of a similar nature for his master.)

This falls into the context of how a master looks viewed from the public or from their superiors and/or colleagues. The role of the student to their master is that of sacrifice for them to save face. Consider this; which is it better to have look a fool? A student with limited experiences or a master with years or decades of experience? As a master, a person is put into a position of having to appear infallible, although we are all still human and make mistakes.