New Okehazama Magazine

Rekishijin Magazine has a new issue on the Battle of Okehazama.  I need this issue ASAP.  I wonder if the local historians, the Kajino family has been consulted?  Hopefully, they were.

Tenka no tame!

Nobunaga link

There is a Nobunaga link that I use time to time and it is highly useful.  The page is in Japanese.  That being said, this is one of the better Nobunaga links out there.  The link also has a twitter and facebook account.

https://www.oda-sha.jp/

Nobunaga no tame!

Nobunaga and Kunitomo

In 1549, Nobunaga ordered 500 matchlock rifles from Kunitomo in Omi.

Tanegashima (Lidin, p. 135)

"Over and over again, Lord Nobunaga repeated that the number of teppo were too few, and the iron workers and teppo specialists were ordered to step up their efforts.  Ichiyu received the command that all kinds of preparations should be made and since quick action was asked for, instructions were sent to Kunitono village in Omi Province, to kunitomo Zenbee, Hyoeshiro, Sukedayu, Tokyusaemon in Kunitomo in (Goshu) Omi Province.  These four men undertook the work together with the iron experts, and 500 teppo for six-momme bullets were manufactured.  On the 18th day of the 7th month of Tenbun 18 (10 August 1549), they received the order from Lord Nobunaga through Hashimoto Ippa, . . ."

1 momme=3.75
The bullets for Nobunaga's guns were 22.5 grams.

Tenka no tame!

Young Nobunaga

I did some artwork drawing a young Nobunaga during his "Owari no Utsuke" days and it turned out okay.  Here is a passage from Ota Gyuichi's Shincho-Ko ki (Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga), pp. 58-9.

"As for young Nobunaga's manner: He had on a bathrobe (yukatabira) with its sleeves removed, wore half-trousers (hanbakama) over it, and carried any number of pouches for flints and that sort of thing around his waist.  He kept his hair straight up like a tea whisk, tied with crimson and fresh-green cords. He bore a great sword with a vermilion sheath and ordered all the samurai of his retinue to outfit themselves in vermilion."

Nobunaga no tame!