Fingers Removed

 This is a small passage from Rumi Komonz's Kicho & Nobunaga 2nd Edition (p. 173)

"I run into Nobunaga's study breathless after hearing a shocking rumor. They are saying that Monkey (Hideyoshi) ordered his men to cut off Ichi's mother-in-law's fingers one a day tillage was finally executed.

Holding  my fast-beating heart, I scowl at Nobunaga. `Is it true?' 

'Fake news.' He corrects me."

The actual truth is that Azai Nagamasa's mother Ono-tono (d. 1573) did have her fingers removed. It was ordered by Nobunaga who had no love loss of the Azai. It was a gruesome and cruel death.

Tenka no tame!