Tozama Daimyo. Tozama daimyo were daimyo who had not been vassals of Ieyasu in 1600 and their descendants. Many of them, especially the greater ones, had close ties with the shogunate, including marriage ties, but they did not take part in the bureaucracy or concern themselves with national affairs, at least publicly.
Besides the Tell â Tale Heart, I also have read Ligeia and I too have watched the movie. The Tell â Tale Heart is about the narrator whom hates the old man eyes. Evil Eye, he said. The old man has a vulture eye â a pale blue eye, with a film over it.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: It's now believed that he didn't. What is believed to have happened was a fight between him and P. Gauguin in his studio was the result of the mutilation. Gauguin was a master swordsman and we believe that in a fit of frustration towards Van Gogh, Gauguin cut his ear with a rapier! believe that he went insane (probably because he was starving, and he ate his paint to survive, which was lead-based at the time, of course) therefore, with the added insult of lead-poisoning he cut off his ear to give to a prostitute. END OF STORY.