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Year 1553 ( MDLIII ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)An early instance of a remonstrative seppuku, recorded by Ōta Gyuichi in his biography of Oda Nobunaga, was the death of Hirate Masahide on February 25, 1553. A former general, in his sixties Masahide served as personal tutor to the young Nobunaga, whose teenage bad-boy antics are legendary in Japan.