Mitsuhide Drama Opens Late January

The Akechi Mitsuhide Taiga drama will open on January 19th two weeks later than usual due to the arrest of Erika Sawajiri. As posted earlier, Kawaguchi Haruna will be the new Nohime actress.  The reason why for the late start is NHK plan to reshoot the scenes. 

Tenka no tame!

Taiga Drama Update

There is major news regarding next year's NHK Taiga drama on Akechi Mitsuhide.  Kawaguchi Haruna will replace the druggie Sawajiri Erika's roles as Nohime.  I am glad that NHK quickly found a replacement for the disgrace Sawajiri Erika.  There is so much riding on next year's Taiga drama.  The cast is good as well as the script.  Also everyone in Japan is looking forward to see the drama.  Hope for the best.


Nobunaga no tame!

Mitsuhide Taiga in Trouble

The 2020 Akechi Mitsuhide NHK Taiga drama is major trouble.  Actress Erika Sawajiri has been arrested on drug charges.  Erika's lead role in the 2020 NHK Taiga was Nobunaga's wife Nohime.  She  has been taken off the list.  So far, there will be no re-shooting of the drama or another actress to fill in the role.  I am in shock.  Why would do that type of garbage she knows Japan's policy towards drugs is brutal.  Unfortunately, in the US actors/actresses who are caught with drugs are often praised since there is no shame.  It is a badge of honor for them.  She was selfish and now she has nearly put the whole Mitsuhide project in jeopardy.

I had high hopes for drama.  From what I understand, the cast is great as well as the script.  Now, the drama is in limbo because one stupid bimbo decided to use drugs. As I chatted with a friend last night, the NHK Taiga drama needs a blockbuster to keep it moving.  This was it and now it looks like it might do down the toilet.  I still think in my opinion a new brutal and bloody Nobunaga Taiga needs to be made.   A Nobunaga drama that will scare the bejesus out of people.  Something like Ran, but more terrifying.  If a Nobunaga drama is going to be made like that.  I am in and willing to help.

Tenka no tame!

Mitsuhide in Shincho-Ko ki

With the new NHK Taiga drama airing next year on Akechi Mitsuhide, I will write a post on Mitsuhide's first appearance in Ota Gyuichi's Shincho-Ko ki.  Mitsuhide first appeared in the Shincho-Ko ki in 1569 in Kyoto.

Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga (p. 128)

"On the 4th of the First Month, the Miyoshi Triumvirs together with Saito Uhyoe no Tayu Tatsuoki, Nagai Hayato and others having recruited ronin from southern parts surrounded the shogun in his temple residence at Rokujo.  Yakushiji Kurozaemon commanded their advance guard.  His soldiers burnt down the neighborhood in front of the gate and were on the point of forcing their way inside the temple.  The shogun's men who were on guard at Rokujo included

Hosokawa Tenkyu, Oda Sakon, Nomura Etchu, Akaza Shichiroemon, Akaza Sukeroku, Tsuma Sama no Jo, Watanabe Shozaemon, Sakai Yoemon, Akechi Jubyoe, Mori Yagohachi, Naito Bitchu, Yamagata Genmai, and Uno Yashichi."


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Shizuoka Yoshimoto Statue

Big news regarding the Battle of Okehazama and Imagawa Yoshimoto.  Finally, there will be an Imagawa Yoshimoto bronze statue in Shizuoka.  Shizuoka is the home of the Imagawa family and now there will be a statue of Yoshimoto which will be place north of Shizuoka station next year.  On your left is historian Owada Tetsuo who I met earlier this year at the Imagawa Yoshimoto festival.  We chatted for a few minutes about Nobunaga and the Battle of Okehazama.  At the present time, there is only one Yoshimoto statue and that is located at the Arimatsu Okehazama Battlefield.

Link: https://www.at-s.com/amp/news/article/topics/shizuoka/698058.html

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Battle for Kiyosu

Nobunaga statue at Kiyosu Castle Park.

In the early 1550s, the Battle for Kiyosu started.  Nobunaga would have his hands on the the "Jewel of Owari" in 1555.  That being said, it was not an easy task.

Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga (pp. 70-1)

"On the 18th of the Seventh Month, Shibata Gonroku too the field against Kiyosu.  His light infantry included Abiko Ukyo no Suke, Fujie Kyuzo, Ota Matasuke [Gyuichi. the author of this work], Kimura Gengo, Shibazaki Magozo, and Yamada Shichigoro.

The Kiyosu forces joined battle at the approach to the Sanno Shrine but were put to flight.  Next, they tried to put a defense in Kojikimura but could not hold their ground.  Then they made a stand in front  of the Seiganji but in the end were forced to seek refuge at the entrance to the town, inside the large moat.  Kawajiri Sama no Jo, Oda Sanmi, Lord Hara, and Lord Saiga fought back ferociously, closing to within two or three ken [about four or five meters].  But their spears were short and those of Nobunaga's men long, so they could not avoid being stabbed.  For all that, they did not tale a single step back, preferring to die in battle.  Those who fell included

Kawajiri Samna no Jo, Oda Sanmi, saiga Shuri, Lord Hara, Yaita Kokita, Furusawa Shichirozaemon, and Asano Kyuzo.

In all about, about thirty warriors of standing were killed.

yu kiichi, a lad of seventeen or eighteen who had been in the service of lord Buei, stormed into the ranks of the Kiyosu forces, dressed only in a light summer kimono, and took the head of Lord Oda Sanmi.  Kazusa no suke Nobunaga was extraordinarily impressed by his fighting deed.

Even though Lord Buei had plotted treachery, the fact remains that his assassins were guilty of killing their hereditary and ancestral lord.  The retribution for their crime manifested itself immediately--on the seventh day they all lay dead.  The Way of Heaven is terrible."

Nobunaga no tame!