The following is a rough draft.
I'm talking about NHK's Taiga drama, "The Kirin is Coming."
Since its re-opening, I've been losing interest in watching it.
I was disappointed to find that some of these interesting drama producers had a self-tormenting historical view.
It will discuss the greatness of Nobunaga below.
It is no exaggeration to say that after the show was interrupted and resumed due to the Corona disaster, the real protagonists replaced by two women: the female head of a troupe of traveling entertainers and a lady who worked for a doctor.
The filmmakers want them to talk about the Peace Constitution's spirit, the renunciation of force, the hatred of power, the opposition to war, and the renunciation of force.
They are so biased that they might even go so far as to observe the Peace Constitution.
It would be a waste of time for the military commanders who have colored the history of Japan.
Who in their right mind could watch a story like this, in which the two women mentioned above portray Japanese history as if they were wiser and more significant than the greatest man in Japanese history, Nobunaga!
I used to watch NHK's Taiga dramas hardly.
I began to watch the series on Yoshida Shoin and others' theme, but
I stopped watching Idaten in the second half of the series when the Asahi Shimbun came on the scene.
I watched the first half of Lady Castle Lord Naotora because I was amazed at the child actor who was the main character in the first half of the series (you could say she was a natural talent as an actor).
I was looking forward to watching "The Kirin is Coming" from the beginning because it was about Nobunaga and his wife, whom I have mentioned many times.
First of all, I would like to explain why I consider Nobunaga a great genius, a rare genius in Japan's history, or even the world's history.
It is because Nobunaga is the only person in the history of the world who was able to put China to rights.
GHQ had complete control and domination of the Japanese press to ensure the success of the Japanese occupation.
It is an obvious fact that it was the Asahi Shimbun and NHK that GHQ used them to inculcate a self-tormenting historical view in the Japanese people, in other words, to brainwash them into thinking it was in GHQ's best interest to do so.
The people in control of NHK's news department are still the world's worst and most stupid people who have no brains other than to abide by the self-tormenting historical view instilled by GHQ so-called "Peace Constitution" given by GHQ to weaken Japan forever.
But sometimes they show real skill.
I like a show called "History Historia" quite a bit, and I watch it a lot.
A long time ago, there was an episode on Oda Nobunaga.
As readers may know, I rediscovered Kyoto more than ten years ago, and I've been exploring the city every weekend.
From early 2012 until about two years ago, I was the world's most significant visitor to Kyoto for someone who didn't live there.
One of Kyoto's great things is the presence of Honnoji Temple in front of City Hall, right in the middle of the city.
It is when I dropped in unexpectedly.
Honnoji itself is a very ordinary temple among shrines and temples in Kyoto.
However, It caught me in a peculiar emotion on that day.
Maybe it was natural for me to refer to him as the Nobunaga of today.
Nobunaga came to me powerfully.
I deeply felt the regret of Nobunaga.
The genius, which can be said to be the greatest in Japanese history, died relatively young.
It is the place where it crushed his grandiose vision.
History Historia has done an excellent job explaining why Akechi Mitsuhide, who was heavily used by Nobunaga, rebelled.
Akechi Mitsuhide, like all other ordinary lords, would be no different, as he was a man who wanted the safety of his family and the safety of his people.
He knew better than anyone else what Nobunaga was.
That's why he was horrified by what Nobunaga had told him, his senior vassal.
Nobunaga was a man with the qualities of a man under heaven.
Akechi Mitsuhide knew better than anyone else that he was an uncommon vessel.
It was then that Nobunaga said to Mitsuhide, "I will strike at Ming Dynasty. I will ride out to the Ming dynasty and rule the Ming dynasty. Because Japan is a small country and the territories, I have to give my vassals according to their merit will be gone sooner or later.'
Mitsuhide was terrified to the core.
He had fought and worked for Nobunaga without fear of death because it convinced him that Nobunaga could unify the warring states.
He was confident that he could unify the warring states and ensure the safety and prosperity of the Akechi family.
And that's not the end of it; this time he's going to be sent to Ming!
It was entirely out of his range of thought and a bolt from the sky.
Akechi Mitsuhide knew better than anyone else that Nobunaga was a true man of unusual ability.
If this were not the case, it would send him to the Ming Dynasty.
So he took revenge on Nobunaga.
The following article proves that my "hunch" was right and that the historical historians of that day, unusually, told the truth.
I discovered this article by searching for the Chinese was the Ming Dynasty in Nobunaga's time.
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/akechikenzaburotekisekai/e/dd45887bcc0ea039eb548f88d4774d05
What if Nobunaga had unified the country? (Strategic planning for the conquest of China)
Last time, we talked about how Nobunaga used the Jesuits to prepare his fleet for China's conquest.
This time, we will talk about how he thought about forming the invasion force and the control system after the conquest of China.
An excellent example of this is Hideyoshi's plan to invade China, so let's look at it first.
Hideyoshi's official document to Kanpaku Hidetsugu (Hideyoshi's nephew) around the time of his victory in the early stages of the War of Genroku and his occupation of Seoul.
It was a plan for the division of China, Japan, and Korea.
According to the plan, the Emperor and the Hideyoshi family were planned to be placed in each of the three countries.
Emperor Go-Yōzei was the Emperor of China.
Kanpaku: Toyotomi Hidetsugu
Japan Emperor: Prince Yoshihito or Prince Hachijō Toshihito
Kanpaku: Toyotomi Hideyasu (Hidetsugu's youngest brother) or Ukita Hideie
King of Korea: Toyotomi Hidekatsu (Hidetsugu's younger brother) or Ukita Hideie
Wikipedia "Emperor Goyozei" article
Wikipedia "Hidetsugu Toyotomi" article
Wikipedia "Toyotomi Hideyasu" article
Wikipedia "Hidekatsu Toyotomi" article
Wikipedia "Hideie Ukita" article
As you can see from this, Hideyoshi thought of a system of direct rule by the Toyotomi family in China, Japan, and Korea.
The formation of the invasion force was also in line with this, with the Daimyo of Kyushu, Chugoku, and Shikoku at the center, but among them were Hideyoshi's favorites such as Konishi Yukinaga, Kato Kiyomasa, Kuroda Nagamasa, Fukushima Masanori, Hachisuka Iemasa, Ukita Hideie, and Kinoshita Shigekata.
He appointed Ishida Mitsunari, Otani Yoshitsugu, Masuda Nagamori, Kato Mitsuyasu, and Maeno Nagayasu as magistrates system of the Toyotomi administration (although Tokugawa Ieyasu did not participate in it).
Wikipedia "Konishi Yukinaga" article
Wikipedia "Kiyomasa Kato" article
Wikipedia "Kuroda Nagamasa" article
Wikipedia "Masanori Fukushima" article
Wikipedia "Mitunari Ishida" article
Wikipedia "Yoshitsugu Otani" article
Now then, what kind of control system did Nobunaga have in mind, and what sort of invasion force did he organize?
Did they still think about the Oda family's direct control system in China, Japan, and Korea?
There was a crucial difference between the policies of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi here.
Let's read Luís Fróis's description of Nobunaga's strategy again.
'When I have pacified Mouri and become the absolute sovereign of Japan's sixty-six nations, I will raise a great fleet to conquer China by force and divide the nations among my sons.'
The text refers to the nations that "give their share to their sons."
Nobunaga had three sons in their mid-twenties.
Nobutada, Nobuo, and Nobutaka.
If you divide the three sons among China, Japan, and Korea, the number fits.
If we allocate them in Hideyoshi's way, Nobutada to China, Nobuo to Japan, and Nobuko to Korea.
However, there is no character of Korea in the text.
It seems that Nobunaga did not have Korea in his mind.
The countries are the "66 nations of Japan".
In other words, they allocate and divide Japan into their sons and daughters.
Then, who would rule China?
That's right, powerful generals like Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi.
Naturally, the invasion force was formed by those generals.
It is the same structure of the "Second Structural Reform" (please refer to my book "The Honnoji Incident: 47 Years of Truth"), in which powerful generals such as Hideyoshi and Katsuie Shibata were sent to attack Mori and Uesugi, and it reorganized the area around Azuchi and Kyoto under the direct control of the Oda family.
Perhaps Nobunaga had learned from the information he had obtained through the Jesuits about acquiring Spanish and Portuguese colonies abroad.
He asked Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi to play the role of "conquistadors," such as Pizarro, who invaded the Inca Empire, and Cortes, who invaded the Aztec Kingdom.
The strategy was to expand its territory without spilling the blood of the Oda family.
It is the significant and fundamental difference between this strategy and the one implemented by Hideyoshi.
Wikipedia "Age of Discovery" article
★ Wikipedia "Conquistador" article
Now, stay tuned for the next installment to see how these results play out.
I'm talking about NHK's Taiga drama, "The Kirin is Coming."
Since its re-opening, I've been losing interest in watching it.
I was disappointed to find that some of these interesting drama producers had a self-tormenting historical view.
It will discuss the greatness of Nobunaga below.
It is no exaggeration to say that after the show was interrupted and resumed due to the Corona disaster, the real protagonists replaced by two women: the female head of a troupe of traveling entertainers and a lady who worked for a doctor.
The filmmakers want them to talk about the Peace Constitution's spirit, the renunciation of force, the hatred of power, the opposition to war, and the renunciation of force.
They are so biased that they might even go so far as to observe the Peace Constitution.
It would be a waste of time for the military commanders who have colored the history of Japan.
Who in their right mind could watch a story like this, in which the two women mentioned above portray Japanese history as if they were wiser and more significant than the greatest man in Japanese history, Nobunaga!
I used to watch NHK's Taiga dramas hardly.
I began to watch the series on Yoshida Shoin and others' theme, but
I stopped watching Idaten in the second half of the series when the Asahi Shimbun came on the scene.
I watched the first half of Lady Castle Lord Naotora because I was amazed at the child actor who was the main character in the first half of the series (you could say she was a natural talent as an actor).
I was looking forward to watching "The Kirin is Coming" from the beginning because it was about Nobunaga and his wife, whom I have mentioned many times.
First of all, I would like to explain why I consider Nobunaga a great genius, a rare genius in Japan's history, or even the world's history.
It is because Nobunaga is the only person in the history of the world who was able to put China to rights.
GHQ had complete control and domination of the Japanese press to ensure the success of the Japanese occupation.
It is an obvious fact that it was the Asahi Shimbun and NHK that GHQ used them to inculcate a self-tormenting historical view in the Japanese people, in other words, to brainwash them into thinking it was in GHQ's best interest to do so.
The people in control of NHK's news department are still the world's worst and most stupid people who have no brains other than to abide by the self-tormenting historical view instilled by GHQ so-called "Peace Constitution" given by GHQ to weaken Japan forever.
But sometimes they show real skill.
I like a show called "History Historia" quite a bit, and I watch it a lot.
A long time ago, there was an episode on Oda Nobunaga.
As readers may know, I rediscovered Kyoto more than ten years ago, and I've been exploring the city every weekend.
From early 2012 until about two years ago, I was the world's most significant visitor to Kyoto for someone who didn't live there.
One of Kyoto's great things is the presence of Honnoji Temple in front of City Hall, right in the middle of the city.
It is when I dropped in unexpectedly.
Honnoji itself is a very ordinary temple among shrines and temples in Kyoto.
However, It caught me in a peculiar emotion on that day.
Maybe it was natural for me to refer to him as the Nobunaga of today.
Nobunaga came to me powerfully.
I deeply felt the regret of Nobunaga.
The genius, which can be said to be the greatest in Japanese history, died relatively young.
It is the place where it crushed his grandiose vision.
History Historia has done an excellent job explaining why Akechi Mitsuhide, who was heavily used by Nobunaga, rebelled.
Akechi Mitsuhide, like all other ordinary lords, would be no different, as he was a man who wanted the safety of his family and the safety of his people.
He knew better than anyone else what Nobunaga was.
That's why he was horrified by what Nobunaga had told him, his senior vassal.
Nobunaga was a man with the qualities of a man under heaven.
Akechi Mitsuhide knew better than anyone else that he was an uncommon vessel.
It was then that Nobunaga said to Mitsuhide, "I will strike at Ming Dynasty. I will ride out to the Ming dynasty and rule the Ming dynasty. Because Japan is a small country and the territories, I have to give my vassals according to their merit will be gone sooner or later.'
Mitsuhide was terrified to the core.
He had fought and worked for Nobunaga without fear of death because it convinced him that Nobunaga could unify the warring states.
He was confident that he could unify the warring states and ensure the safety and prosperity of the Akechi family.
And that's not the end of it; this time he's going to be sent to Ming!
It was entirely out of his range of thought and a bolt from the sky.
Akechi Mitsuhide knew better than anyone else that Nobunaga was a true man of unusual ability.
If this were not the case, it would send him to the Ming Dynasty.
So he took revenge on Nobunaga.
The following article proves that my "hunch" was right and that the historical historians of that day, unusually, told the truth.
I discovered this article by searching for the Chinese was the Ming Dynasty in Nobunaga's time.
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/akechikenzaburotekisekai/e/dd45887bcc0ea039eb548f88d4774d05
What if Nobunaga had unified the country? (Strategic planning for the conquest of China)
Last time, we talked about how Nobunaga used the Jesuits to prepare his fleet for China's conquest.
This time, we will talk about how he thought about forming the invasion force and the control system after the conquest of China.
An excellent example of this is Hideyoshi's plan to invade China, so let's look at it first.
Hideyoshi's official document to Kanpaku Hidetsugu (Hideyoshi's nephew) around the time of his victory in the early stages of the War of Genroku and his occupation of Seoul.
It was a plan for the division of China, Japan, and Korea.
According to the plan, the Emperor and the Hideyoshi family were planned to be placed in each of the three countries.
Emperor Go-Yōzei was the Emperor of China.
Kanpaku: Toyotomi Hidetsugu
Japan Emperor: Prince Yoshihito or Prince Hachijō Toshihito
Kanpaku: Toyotomi Hideyasu (Hidetsugu's youngest brother) or Ukita Hideie
King of Korea: Toyotomi Hidekatsu (Hidetsugu's younger brother) or Ukita Hideie
Wikipedia "Emperor Goyozei" article
Wikipedia "Hidetsugu Toyotomi" article
Wikipedia "Toyotomi Hideyasu" article
Wikipedia "Hidekatsu Toyotomi" article
Wikipedia "Hideie Ukita" article
As you can see from this, Hideyoshi thought of a system of direct rule by the Toyotomi family in China, Japan, and Korea.
The formation of the invasion force was also in line with this, with the Daimyo of Kyushu, Chugoku, and Shikoku at the center, but among them were Hideyoshi's favorites such as Konishi Yukinaga, Kato Kiyomasa, Kuroda Nagamasa, Fukushima Masanori, Hachisuka Iemasa, Ukita Hideie, and Kinoshita Shigekata.
He appointed Ishida Mitsunari, Otani Yoshitsugu, Masuda Nagamori, Kato Mitsuyasu, and Maeno Nagayasu as magistrates system of the Toyotomi administration (although Tokugawa Ieyasu did not participate in it).
Wikipedia "Konishi Yukinaga" article
Wikipedia "Kiyomasa Kato" article
Wikipedia "Kuroda Nagamasa" article
Wikipedia "Masanori Fukushima" article
Wikipedia "Mitunari Ishida" article
Wikipedia "Yoshitsugu Otani" article
Now then, what kind of control system did Nobunaga have in mind, and what sort of invasion force did he organize?
Did they still think about the Oda family's direct control system in China, Japan, and Korea?
There was a crucial difference between the policies of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi here.
Let's read Luís Fróis's description of Nobunaga's strategy again.
'When I have pacified Mouri and become the absolute sovereign of Japan's sixty-six nations, I will raise a great fleet to conquer China by force and divide the nations among my sons.'
The text refers to the nations that "give their share to their sons."
Nobunaga had three sons in their mid-twenties.
Nobutada, Nobuo, and Nobutaka.
If you divide the three sons among China, Japan, and Korea, the number fits.
If we allocate them in Hideyoshi's way, Nobutada to China, Nobuo to Japan, and Nobuko to Korea.
However, there is no character of Korea in the text.
It seems that Nobunaga did not have Korea in his mind.
The countries are the "66 nations of Japan".
In other words, they allocate and divide Japan into their sons and daughters.
Then, who would rule China?
That's right, powerful generals like Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi.
Naturally, the invasion force was formed by those generals.
It is the same structure of the "Second Structural Reform" (please refer to my book "The Honnoji Incident: 47 Years of Truth"), in which powerful generals such as Hideyoshi and Katsuie Shibata were sent to attack Mori and Uesugi, and it reorganized the area around Azuchi and Kyoto under the direct control of the Oda family.
Perhaps Nobunaga had learned from the information he had obtained through the Jesuits about acquiring Spanish and Portuguese colonies abroad.
He asked Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi to play the role of "conquistadors," such as Pizarro, who invaded the Inca Empire, and Cortes, who invaded the Aztec Kingdom.
The strategy was to expand its territory without spilling the blood of the Oda family.
It is the significant and fundamental difference between this strategy and the one implemented by Hideyoshi.
Wikipedia "Age of Discovery" article
★ Wikipedia "Conquistador" article
Now, stay tuned for the next installment to see how these results play out.
