Sekigahara Page #2

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for retaining the greatest...

most honorable samurai of our time

I have no interest

If you refuse to serve me

then, advise me as my brother

If not my brother, as a worthy friend

My lord

You haven't changed, Myozen

It must be all my prayers

Pray for me, too

I want that youth

Your companion?

His name is Mitsunari

A strange fellow

As in Lord Ishida Mitsunari?

Give me some gruel

I'm famished

I dislike the Taiko. I will not serve you

Why? Tell me

It won't be pretty

I'll listen

His lewd and disgraceful behavior

is unparalleled

He took his master Nobunaga's

daughters as his concubines

He even took Nobunaga's

own concubines

and the wife of his son

Coming from humble beginnings

His Highness admires noble ladies

He desires the ladies of

warriors in particular

He considers his master's clan

to be the apex of nobility

Still, Lady Nene is his wife

He cherishes her above all

saying she is a woman among women

Hideyoshi wants Hideyori, his son

with Lady Yodo to succeed him

Thus, the Regent, his nephew had to go

So snuffed him out as a rebel

Am I wrong?

As far as I know, the Regent

had no rebellious intentions

You and Lady Yodo are both from Omi

Aren't you?

We were both born near Lake Biwa

There are rumors it was a plot by Mitsunari

Some say Yodo conceived the plan

and Hideyoshi bought it

Some even say worse

Such as?

That I am the father of Hideyori

When together, Hideyoshi and Lady Nene

would joke and argue loudly

like a couple from the lower class

They had a heavy country dialect

from Owari

Naturally, Lady Nene was feared

as the most powerful political force

of the Toyotomi house

On the eve of Sekigahara

if she had secretly ordered the lords

to kill leyasu

it may have altered Japanese history

But in fact, the opposite was true

Why?

Hideyoshi's chief concubine,

Lady Yodo whose parents...

were destroyed by Hideyoshi

was from Omi

As were Mitsunari and Gyobu

Get off your high horse, Omi

I'm a bumpkin from Owari

Damn me if I ever get friendly

with the oh-so-gifted Omi folk

Why did you save them?

They fought for justice

Was not the execution an injustice?

Why are you loyal to that tyrant?

The tyrant made me

- Shouldn't he go?

- I'd rather inherit...

the heart for justice he once had

Or else justice will be lost forever

When His Highness is dead...

there will be war to determine his successor

That is when the flag of justice

must be raised

In this age?

That is His Highness' ignominy

In crushing his enemies

or making peace with leyasu

he never cared for justice

He has reigned for 13 years

Order in the realm is built on self-interest

I will take up arms for justice

When all the world is self-interested

it is a worthy task...

to run alone against it

My life isn't even worth a poem

by Du Fu or Du Mu

But I'll take 15,000

20,000 for a worthy friend

Ride it and leave it

Leave Pa?

A riderless horse returns home on its own

The wisdom of an old horse

Mitsunari's mansion, Fushimi

- Am I to be your plaything?

- No

Why did you spare me?

Your courage struck me

Did the others survive?

Your friend was badly wounded

I left her with the doctor

She will live

Unless she kills herself out of despair

My sister nor I will commit suicide

I can arrange your return

- For what?

- Have you no family there?

I only have my sister

Just don't think about revenge

The world is unjust. Revenge is laughable

You are from?

Iga

An lga ninja

My father was born in lga

and served Lord Takeda

All the houses we served perished

After he died we had to survive

as street performers and pilgrims

You and your sister?

And my mother

She died at the riverbank

The three of you served Koma

- Taken in as dogs

- Dogs?

That's what my mother said

We can spy, agitate, watch, ensnare

spread rumors - anything"

Use us as your dogs"

Will you serve me?

Might be bad luck

I want to change the unjust world

under the flag of

Da/ lch/ Da/ Man Da/ K ich/

Dai Ichi Dai Man?

I retained a samurai

who has all the qualities I lack

So, I designed a new emblem

If one gives oneself for all

the world will prosper

You risked your lives for your bond

I covet your service

Then consider me a dog

Neither human nor woman

Let me roam free and

I will requite your trust

Home of Yamato Yagyu

What is the way of

a long and healthy life?

The way the Yagyu and Shima clans

grew up in Yamato

helping each other

The marriage of sword and medicine

The land may eventually split in two

Ieyasu and Mitsunari may go to war

How, then, to foster life?

He who survives from either house

must nurture the families of both

I have chosen Mitsunari

Then, I shall give my sons to leyasu

Father

I have been retained

Hanano. We will be moving

to the Ishida House in Fushimi

And I thought you were

in Kyoto womanizing

A counselor worth 20,000

That's a da/myds pay

You can practice medicine there

Will we meet next on the battlefield?

We may cross swords

Three years later

Fushimi, 1598

You went on a site inspection

at a temple in Kyoto

Idid

You gave orders with this stick

Idid

You dropped the stick

Ieyasu picked it up and

gave it back to you

What did you do?

Nothing

You turned away

frowned, and walked away

Ieyasu didn't say anything either

You're like a child

Where did you get the stick?

From leyasu's servant

Sakon. I am not so skillful as to smile

at a person I dislike

Others don't see your frown as harmless

It is seen as hubris of the most

powerful man under the Taiko

It's your loss

I can explain

Let's hear it

Even as the Taiko grows feeble

that villain has presented the emperor...

two swans and ten pieces of gold

He wants to take over

Cozying up to Lady Nene as well

I see

But I am talking about

a very simple thing

When someone picks up your stick

smile and acknowledge them

Even more so if it is Ieyasu

That's too much for me

That night Masanobu went

to Ieyasu's bedroom

and asked whether

the stick incident was true

Oddly enough, the two men

always conspired in the bedroom

The younger men are demanding

to kill Mitsunari

How did you stop them?

I told them the stage must be set

The killing must serve Tokugawa

But is the stick incident even true?

What would you think if it were?

- He must be killed

- When?

- After Hideyoshi dies

- When after?

When he rises up for

Lady Yodo and her son

Not enough

They must first be labeled rebels

Then we can kill

Oh, you win this time

Masanobu

Masanobu always let Ieyasu

win the last hand

The two were more conspiracy partners

than master and servant

Then they exchanged predictions

on who would side with Mitsunari

and who would side with Ieyasu

if something were to happen

Of those who've served Hideyoshi

since youth...

how many can we persuade?

That is the key

To split the Toyotomi house in two

Where do we start?

Lord Kobayakawa

His verdict will be announced tomorrow

We are moving the times

We will need people in various roles

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