Nah. You'd be surprised. It got to the point where even the joshi couldn't deny what was goin' on. Old Yodo didn't wanna end up on the wrong side of history in the end.

[ he sounds just a little bitter about this. that was not an easy time for him, close to the end. ]

Can't take credit for that. Times change and even fools catch on. You and I an' all the rest of us were way ahead. I wanted ronin 'cause we understood before anyone else what was really important; I didn't want Tosa men or Choshu men when we all already knew domains didn't matter anymore.