Ernest Satow, diplomat and translator for the British embassy (1862-1869) to Japan had a very rough relationship with his boss, Sir Harry Parkes. In Satow's "Diplomat in Japan" , based off the diaries he kept at the time, he vents a lot about Parkes, who was well known for his bad temper. Parkes thought it was perfectly fine to carry on negotiations with Japanese officials by screaming and swearing at them, and didn't even notice when that offended them, because they were silent instead of yelling back. Then Satow would be left mending the bridges.

This dynamic plays out a lot in Satow's account so he must have had a great deal of contentment when he got up to the following bit of gossip with a Japanese counterpart who'd borne the brunt of Sir Harry's ill temper: for context, Ikebe here had privately told Satow he considered himself a Christian (despite Christianity not being yet legalized in Japan).

I had some interesting conversation with Ikébé Goi, whom I went to see on the 13th. At his lodgings I met a young man named Yoshida Magoichirô, a councillor of the Yanagawa clan. We talked about Christianity, and Ikébé cited the Sermon on the Mount as a composition that pleased him more than anything written by Buddhist or Confucian Sages. I remarked that the Christian religion reversed the Chinese saying: "Do not unto others as ye would not that others should do unto you"; upon which he quoted the command to turn the other cheek to be smitten. After a little he began to talk about my chief's violence in conference, and said: "Now in his case, when he gets in a rage, so far from offering the other cheek, I feel inclined to kick him out of the room."

• pp. 402-403, A Diplomat in Japan by Sir Ernest Satow

As the comment mentioning him was deleted from the other thread, here an illuminating bit from Peter Hagendorf, a mercenary who wrote a diary from 1625 to 1649.

In the span of a few pages, he details how he went to Welschland (Italy) and was hired by the Venetians, how lovely Italy is, how he fought against Pappenheim - who was his commander before - how he was sick for a few months shortly after he was hired "most of the Germans died".

On the way back, he tells us that

Hier ist die Kapelle noch zu sehen, wo Wilhelm Tell ist rausgesprungen, wo die Schweizer ihre Freiheit von her haben.

Here the chapel can still be seen, where Wilhelm Tell sprung out of, where the Swiss have their freedom from.

[I tried to preserve the strange word arrangement of Hagendorf]

Then, he begs enough money to buy shoes, but pisses it all away on wine. Walking to Ulm, he hires again in the company of Pappenheim.

The Pappenheimers are part of the operations against Denmark, so in 1629, Hagendorf reaches Pomerania.

And there, he nonchalantly relates this:

Hier haben wir kein Rindfleisch mehr wollen essen, sondern es haben müssen Gänse, Enten oder Hühner sein. Wo wir über Nacht gelegen sind, hat der Wirt müssen einem jedweden einen halben Taler geben, aber im Guten, weil wir mit ihm zufrieden sind / gewesen und haben ihm sein Vieh in Frieden gelassen.

Here we didn't want to eat beef any more, it had to be geese, ducks or chicken instead. Where we lay the night, the innkeeper had to give everyone half a Taler, but in good [humor], because we were content with him and left his livestock alone.

So they extorted the innkeeper. But only half a Taler (which was a bit more than Hagendorf's monthly salary as corporal) each, as they were so content with him!

Edit: Oh, an during the time covered by the twenty pages I just retold, two of his children died, one being birthed premature, the other aged two, he never knew either.