# Season 1
# 1 - Kanetsugu and Keiji
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***SIGN*** Ending song
**[00:02] nar**
The time is the end of the Sengoku period.
**[00:05] nar**
This is Uesugi Kagekatsu's territory,
***SIGN*** Dewa Province, Yonezawa, Doumori area
**[00:07] nar**
the Dewa Province, Yonezawa, Doumori Area.
**[00:14] nar**
This day is the celebration honoring
the new mansion of Ohnosawa Tarobei.
**[00:30] taro**
Now, everyone drink! Eat!
Enjoy the night to the fullest.
**[00:37] guests**
Yeah!
**[00:38] guest**
We're not going to hold back, then!
**[00:52] priest**
Anything that's reached its zenith
will eventually decline, huh...
**[00:57] priest**
Well, then...
**[01:06] priest**
I'd like to borrow an axe.
**[01:14] sonzae**
Tarobei, nice work
saving up for this new place.
**[01:20] sonzae**
Well done.
**[01:21] sonzae**
What a splendid mansion.
**[01:25] taro**
It's nothing.
**[01:27] taro**
Well, the thing I'm most proud of
would have to be the alcove.
**[01:34] guest**
What was that?
**[01:49] taro**
Er... What are you going
to do with that axe?
**[01:54] priest**
Well, I thought I'd
perform a lucky charm
**[01:58] priest**
in honor of your new place.
**[02:18] sonzae**
I-It can't be...
**[02:20] taro**
N-No! It can't be!
It can't be! I-It can't be!
**[02:23] taro**
Oh, no!
**[02:35] taro**
Ma-Maeda-sama...
**[02:39] nar**
This man...
**[02:41] nar**
is the man who was known as
a legendary samurai,
**[02:46] nar**
as well as a legitimate eccentric.
**[02:48] [SONG] sign**
Maeda Keiji
**[02:49] nar**
Maeda Keiji.
**[02:53] taro**
It's true that you are
a very well-known eccentric.
**[02:57] taro**
No one ever knows what you might do!
**[02:59] taro**
But this is too much!
**[03:03] taro**
I just had it built! It's brand new!
**[03:08] keiji**
That's exactly why.
**[03:09] taro**
Huh? What are you saying?
**[03:12] keiji**
Don't you get it?
**[03:18] sonzae**
Th-That's... Naoe-sama.
**[03:27] nar**
And the other samurai who
just made an appearance
***SIGN*** Naoe Kanetsugu
**[03:31] nar**
is Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[03:33] ---**
Part of the Uesugi family,
he is the governor
**[03:35] ---**
of 300,000 koku of the Yonezawa fiefdom,
**[03:38] nar**
and Keiji's best friend.
**[03:46] kane**
Everyone, listen well!
**[03:51] kane**
Everything in this world
**[03:52] ---**
that's reached its zenith
will eventually decline.
**[03:55] kane**
Once you're satisfied and conceited,
**[03:57] kane**
your luck takes a turn for the worst
**[03:59] ---**
and eventually leads
to your destruction.
**[04:06] kane**
It's too bad about that pillar.
**[04:10] kane**
But because of that wound,
**[04:12] ---**
this house will not get any grander.
**[04:18] kane**
Tarobei,
**[04:20] ---**
take a long hard look at that wound
and engrave it into your heart.
**[04:25] kane**
That is what Keiji-dono
is trying to say.
**[04:32] keiji**
What the hell?
**[04:35] keiji**
He stole my line.
**[04:40] taro**
M-Maeda-sama...
**[05:09] kane**
Kokuzouin Hyottokosai.
**[05:13] kane**
It's been a very long time
since you gave yourself
**[05:16] kane**
that name for the fun of it.
**[05:19] keiji**
Yeah.
**[05:20] ---**
I've been enjoying everything nature
has to offer here in Doumori.
**[05:26] kane**
And I look forward to visiting
you with sake in one hand.
**[05:34] keiji**
Which makes the sake even better.
**[05:38] keiji**
Say,
**[05:39] ---**
wasn't the first time we
drank together in Kyoto?
**[05:45] kane**
Indeed. That was the summer of 1588.
**[05:52] kane**
After the end of the Shibata clan,
**[05:55] kane**
and the province of Echigo
had finally been united after battle,
**[05:58] kane**
of which Hideyoshi was informed
**[05:59] ---**
as he proceeded to the capital.
**[06:02] kane**
But it was also the year
**[06:04] ---**
that started the life-or-death battle
involving the survivors of Uesugi.
**[06:12] keiji**
Shall we talk about our tales for a while?
**[06:22] kane**
Indeed. To our heart's
content over some sake.
**[06:38] ---**
The character "gi" (righteousness),
combines "oneself" with "sheep."
**[06:42] ---**
"Sheep" is the same as "beauty."
**[06:46] nar**
Therefore, "gi" means
"to make yourself beautiful."
**[06:50] nar**
I repeat.
**[06:52] nar**
"Gi" truly means
"For one to live beautifully."
**[07:03] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[07:09] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[07:13] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** Kanetsugu and Keiji
***SIGN*** Uesugi Kagekatsu's Manor
**[08:43] kane**
Wh-What?!
**[08:45] kane**
Uwanariuchi?!
**[08:46] hachi**
Indeed... I am ashamed of myself.
**[08:51] kane**
So...
**[08:53] kane**
Are you asking me
to mediate this fight?
**[08:56] guy**
No, that is not what we're asking...
**[08:59] guy**
However, depending on
the situation, he will die.
**[09:02] kane**
What?!
**[09:04] guy**
Therefore, I thought he may
not be able to fulfill
**[09:08] ---**
his duties in Kyoto,
so I brought him here.
**[09:12] kane**
Exactly what's going on?
Tell me everything.
**[09:16] hachi**
W-Well...
**[09:19] dude**
On this day, the 24th of July...
***SIGN*** Uwanariuchi
**[09:22] nar**
Uwanariuchi is a fight among women
**[09:26] ---**
when a husband remarries another woman
**[09:30] ---**
within a month of his divorce.
**[09:33] nar**
The first wife gathers helpers
**[09:36] ---**
and then barges into the
**[09:38] ---**
second wife's kitchen,
wielding wooden swords.
**[09:41] nar**
But of course, the second wife
isn't going to take this lying down,
**[09:45] nar**
so she gathers helpers, and they
wield wooden swords of their own
**[09:47] ---**
for an all-out brawl.
**[09:49] nar**
However, a third party is normally called
**[09:51] ---**
to get in the middle of this
**[09:53] nar**
and pays the first wife
a suitable amount of money
**[09:57] ---**
to try to get her to leave.
**[10:00] kane**
Then there shouldn't be an issue.
**[10:03] guy**
But you see... the helper
they got was bad.
**[10:06] hachi**
Indeed! Why did it
have to be that man?!
**[10:09] kane**
Wait. Uwanariuchi is supposed
to be conducted by women.
**[10:13] kane**
A man is participating?
**[10:14] guy**
Well... This person isn't someone
**[10:17] ---**
who is willing to listen
to logic very easily.
**[10:19] kane**
Oh? And who is this man?
**[10:22] guy**
H-His name is...
**[10:27] guy**
The legendary samurai
in battle, Maeda Keiji.
**[10:31] kane**
What? Is this true?
***SIGN*** Uesugi Kagekatsu
**[10:42] nar**
After Kenshin passed away, he took over
**[10:46] nar**
and rules over Echigo,
Uesugi Kagekatsu.
**[10:49] nar**
Because of the deep wrinkles
between his brow that has had since birth,
**[10:53] ---**
it is said that he has never smiled.
**[11:03] kage**
So Maeda Keiji is helping out
with something like an uwanariuchi?
**[11:07] kane**
It is said that he is such
a legendary eccentric
**[11:10] ---**
that everyone in Kyoto knows of him.
**[11:13] kane**
Meaning logic will mean nothing to him.
**[11:17] kage**
But isn't Maeda Keiji the one...
**[11:21] kane**
Yes.
**[11:23] kane**
It was right before Oda Nobunaga
was trying to take over the country
**[11:27] kane**
and was proceeding into our Echigo...
***SIGN*** Kasugayama Castle
**[11:32] kane**
We were trying to isolate
our enemy's advanced guard,
**[11:34] kane**
Mori Nagayoshi's army,
at Kasugayama castle.
***SIGN*** Mori Nagayoshi
**[11:39] kane**
To do so, we stopped
the Takigawa forces at Mikuni Pass,
**[11:42] kane**
as well as Shibata Katsuie
at Uozu Castle.
**[11:45] kane**
Also, to make it look like we
were sending reinforcements
**[11:49] ---**
to Uozu castle, we sent back
Kagekatsu-sama's squad,
**[11:54] kane**
and with the assistance
of the Yoita clan,
**[11:57] ---**
we were planning to surround
them all at once.
**[12:02] kage**
It was an all-or-nothing move,
and our victory was determined.
**[12:09] kane**
But...
**[12:12] kan**
A man had arrived at Mikuni
Pass with alarming speed.
**[12:18] kane**
And because of his advice,
**[12:24] kane**
we lost, right when
we were going to win.
**[12:28] kane**
And that man...
**[12:41] kane**
was Maeda Keiji.
**[12:55] kane**
Mosuke!
**[13:08] mosuke**
You're kidding!
**[13:10] mosuke**
From that distance?
**[13:16] kane**
A beast has shown himself.
**[13:19] kage**
So why is a man like that
**[13:21] kage**
intruding into something
like an uwanariuchi?
**[13:25] kane**
I don't know.
**[13:27] kane**
But this war looks like
it's going to get interesting.
**[13:35] mosuke**
Jeez. You should just leave it alone.
**[13:39] kane**
I cannot.
**[13:41] kane**
Kihachi is a retainer
of the Uesugi clan.
**[13:44] kane**
We'll have to see
this through with him.
**[13:46] mosuke**
Well, I'd like to see what this
legendary eccentric is like, too.
**[13:53] mosuke**
But who knows where he might be?
**[13:54] voice**
Over here.
**[14:03] mosuke**
Jirobo!
**[14:04] ninja**
Finding Maeda Keiji was
as simple as could be.
**[14:08] ninja**
He's very easy to spot.
**[14:13] kane**
I see.
**[14:15] mosuke**
What?
**[14:17] mosuke**
What?!
**[14:20] girl**
Right this way.
**[14:22] girl**
Welcome, sir.
***SIGN*** Capital Red-Light District, Nishinotoin
**[14:25] mosuke**
We're going to the red-light district during the day?
**[14:30] mosuke**
Then I might as well...
**[14:33] ninja**
You stay here and watch the horses.
**[14:35] mosuke**
What?! Why don't you do that?!
**[14:38] ninja**
Are you stupid?
**[14:40] ---**
Do you think a ninja would stay
still in front of a shop??
**[14:43] mosuke**
What the hell?! I'd like
to play sometime... Huh?
**[14:49] mosuke**
H-Huh?!
**[14:53] grams**
Welcome.
**[14:55] kane**
I was looking for someone.
**[14:58] grams**
Who might that be?
**[15:05] kane**
That's...
**[15:08] kane**
a melody from a biwa.
**[15:11] kane**
Prepare some sake for me.
**[15:13] grams**
Understood.
**[15:46] kane**
Pardon.
**[16:33] chick**
Are you a customer?
**[16:35] kane**
No.
**[16:37] kane**
That is a nice tune.
**[16:39] ---**
Mind if I listen for a while?
**[16:42] keiji**
Sure. That's fine.
**[17:08] nar**
The two said nothing.
**[17:11] nar**
The song from the biwa
**[17:13] nar**
was very bright and free of malice.
**[17:38] nar**
For quite some time,
Keiji continued to play,
**[17:45] nar**
and Kanetsugu continued to drink.
**[17:56] nar**
However, Keiji's song suddenly changed.
**[18:32] keiji**
You can try at any time.
**[18:35] keiji**
You want to cut me down and make
a name for yourself, don't you?
**[19:11] chick**
Trying to cut down Keiji-han
is rather rash, samurai-han.
**[19:34] guy**
Why... what... something's wrong!
**[20:04] keiji**
You've got something rare, there.
**[20:07] keiji**
So...
**[20:09] keiji**
Did you want to go a round?
**[20:26] kane**
The song from the biwa...
**[20:28] kane**
was quite the treat.
**[22:18] kane**
I'm surprised you can
sleep in this heat.
**[22:21] mosuke**
Well, I was rather bored.
**[22:26] kane**
Let's go.
**[22:28] mosuke**
Huh? W-Wait for me!
**[22:33] mosuke**
So, how did it go?
Did you take care of Keiji?
**[22:37] kane**
No. I can't lay a finger
on him before the uwanariuchi.
**[22:42] mosuke**
Oh, right...
**[22:44] kane**
But...
**[22:47] kane**
I saw something splendid.
**[22:56] chick**
What's wrong?
**[23:00] keiji**
At that moment,
**[23:03] keiji**
to make me prepare for my death...
**[23:06] keiji**
Who was that man...
**[23:11] mosuke**
Then you didn't even give your name?
**[23:15] kane**
I thought I should come
back another time.
**[23:19] kane**
And today,
**[23:21] kane**
I was able to see
Keiji-dono's gi, his righteousness.
**[23:25] mosuke**
Gi?
**[23:26] kane**
Indeed.
**[23:29] kane**
The flowers of righteousness
were in full bloom,
**[23:32] kane**
magnificently flowing
with the song from the biwa.
**[23:40] kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou: Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
***SIGN*** Episode 2 Kanetsugu's Righteousness
**[23:44] kane**
Episode 2
"Kanetsugu's Righteousness."
**[23:47] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
**[23:50] ---**
# 2 - Kanetsugu's Righteousness
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G6NQJ2ZZ6/gifu-dodo-kanetsugu-and-keiji)
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**[00:04] keiji**
Yes... the first time I ever
drank with you was in Kyoto.
**[00:12] kane**
Indeed. That was the summer of 1588.
**[00:16] kane**
One of the retainers of our
Uesugi clan, Yamada Kihachi,
**[00:20] kane**
brought misfortune upon himself
**[00:23] ---**
and got involved in an uwanariuchi.
**[01:00] guy**
Why... What... Something's wrong!
**[01:16] keiji**
So...
**[01:18] keiji**
Did you want to go a round?
**[01:30] keiji**
At that time, for a moment,
I had prepared to die.
**[01:35] keiji**
But instead, you smiled and said...
**[01:44] kane**
The song from the biwa...
**[01:46] kane**
was quite the treat.
**[01:50] kane**
The flowers that flowed
upon that melody
**[01:56] kane**
were the flowers of your
righteousness, Keiji-dono.
**[02:06] keiji**
Shall we talk about
our tales for a while?
**[02:08] kane**
About our righteousness
to our hearts' content.
**[02:20] nar**
The character "gi" (righteousness),
combines "oneself" with "sheep."
**[02:24] nar**
"Sheep" is the same as "beauty."
**[02:28] nar**
Therefore, "gi" means
"to make yourself beautiful."
**[02:32] nar**
I repeat.
**[02:34] nar**
"Gi" truly means
"For one to live beautifully."
**[02:46] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[02:52] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[02:56] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
**[04:14] sign**
Kanetsugu's Righteousness
**[04:20] new**
This only means that you'll
just have to fight, too.
**[04:24] hachi**
You say that, but the enemy
is too strong.
**[04:27] new wife**
And you call yourself a man?
A samurai?!
**[04:31] new**
How embarrassing.
**[04:33] new bg**
If that's all the pride you have, leave it!
**[04:34] guy**
How pathetic.
**[04:36] ---**
That's not a good enough reason to give up!
**[04:37] guy**
This uwanariuchi is due
to your own mistakes.
**[04:43] nar**
An uwanariuchi is a fight among women
**[04:43] hachi**
I'm doomed!
**[04:46] nar**
when a husband remarries another woman
**[04:49] nar**
within a month of his divorce.
**[04:52] nar**
The first wife gathers helpers
**[04:54] nar**
and then barges into the
**[04:56] nar**
second wife's kitchen,
wielding wooden swords.
**[04:59] nar**
This then leads to an all-out brawl
**[05:01] nar**
with the new wife and her
helpers that were waiting.
**[05:04] nar**
And a third party is normally called
**[05:08] nar**
to get in the middle of this
**[05:09] nar**
and pays the first wife
a suitable amount of money
**[05:13] nar**
to try to get her to leave.
**[05:16] nar**
But an unusual problem came up
in this particular uwanariuchi.
**[05:23] old**
That's right.
**[05:24] ---**
This uwanariuchi is a bit
different from the others.
**[05:27] old**
I have the ultimate helper.
**[05:31] old**
His name is legendary.
The legitimate eccentric, Maeda Keiji.
**[05:37] old**
Just you wait, you thieving cat!
**[05:44] hachi**
I'm done for!
**[05:46] guy**
Good grief.
**[05:47] guy**
I know that Maeda-dono is
**[05:47] hachi**
What am I supposed to do?!
**[05:49] ---**
quite the eccentric,
but this is rather much.
**[05:52] kane**
But when I met him the other day,
**[05:56] ---**
he didn't seem like the type
to do something like this.
**[06:01] keiji**
What?
**[06:02] keiji**
He was Naoe Kanetsugu?
**[06:05] chick**
No doubt about it.
**[06:09] keiji**
I see...
**[06:11] keiji**
That makes sense, then.
**[06:13] chick**
Do you know him?
**[06:17] keiji**
We were in the same battle once.
**[06:19] chick**
Battle?
**[06:21] ---**
Then... Why didn't you recognize him?
**[06:26] keiji**
Well, we were too far away
**[06:29] ---**
from each other in battle
to know our faces.
**[06:33] keiji**
It was six years ago...
**[06:36] ---**
It was when our Oda Army was
infiltrating Mt. Kasuga Castle.
**[06:42] keiji**
Our armies were approaching from
three different directions,
**[06:45] keiji**
and it should have been
an overwhelming victory,
**[06:49] keiji**
but it was all a diversion to try
**[06:52] keiji**
to annihilate us by sending
our main forces back.
**[06:57] keiji**
We had realized this and quickly
withdrew, escaping from the area.
**[07:04] keiji**
I was so impressed by this plan,
**[07:06] ---**
that I wanted to meet
the person who thought of it.
**[07:31] mosuke**
*You're kidding!*
**[07:32] mosuke**
*From that distance?*
**[07:39] kane**
*We'll just have to return the favor.*
**[07:44] big**
* He's trying to do the same*
* thing as Maeda-dono!*
**[07:47] big**
*Laughable!*
**[07:53] big**
*You fool! Like it'd reach!*
**[07:56] big**
*Know your place!*
**[07:59] keiji**
*That's not entirely true.*
**[08:10] big**
*It's in me!*
**[08:15] keiji**
*Not bad.*
**[08:17] keiji**
*The "Love" Crest...*
**[08:19] ---**
* That is, indeed, the Uesugi clan's*
* strategist, Naoe Kanetsugu.*
**[08:25] lady**
I heard that he's the chief
retainer of the Uesugi clan,
**[08:28] lady**
and he's powerful enough
that the chief advisor
**[08:31] lady**
personally wanted him to work for him.
**[08:33] keiji**
But why was a man like him...
**[08:38] lady**
I have another story
which may explain that...
**[08:47] keiji**
I see.
**[08:49] ---**
So he's mediating at the uwanariuchi.
**[08:54] keiji**
Then I shall greet him with the stroke
**[08:58] ---**
of my sword on another day.
**[09:01] mosuke**
But how strange...
**[09:03] mosuke**
Maeda Keiji was supposed
**[09:05] ---**
to be the next head
of the Maeda clan...
**[09:09] mosuke**
So why has he become a ronin?
**[09:13] kane**
There is actually
an interesting story to that.
**[09:17] girl**
Come on. You know you want to.
**[09:20] kane**
Mosuke, let us have
that story while we clean ourselves.
**[09:24] mosuke**
Huh?
**[09:27] mosuke**
Hot!
**[09:29] kane**
Then how's this?
**[09:32] mosuke**
Now I'm cold...
**[09:36] kane**
And so,
**[09:37] kane**
this was one of the
reasons that Keiji-dono
**[09:40] ---**
ended up absconding from Maeda Toshiie.
**[09:43] mosuke**
This is?
**[09:45] kane**
Yes. You see...
**[09:49] kane**
It happened in Kanazawa,
at Maeda Keiji's manor.
**[09:54] kane**
One day, Keiji-dono invited
Maeda Toshiie-dono to his manor
**[09:58] kane**
and offered him a bath,
leading him there.
**[10:02] keiji**
*Please, this way.*
**[10:03] toshi**
*A bath!*
**[10:04] kane**
It was a very cold day.
**[10:05] ---**
*Very good. Very good.*
**[10:08] kane**
Considering Toshiie-dono had been
shivering this whole time,
**[10:11] kane**
he was rather excited
about the bath and jumped in.
**[10:13] toshi**
*A bath! A bath! A hot bath!*
**[10:17] kane**
However...
**[10:19] toshi**
It's cold!
**[10:21] kane**
The bath was filled with cold water.
**[10:24] mosuke**
Why would he play such a prank?
**[10:28] kane**
It appears that Keiji-dono
didn't like the fact that
**[10:30] ---**
Toshiie-dono did whatever
the chief advisor told him to do.
**[10:34] kane**
Though he may be a daimyo,
**[10:37] ---**
once he has lost his righteousness,
**[10:40] ---**
he might as well as be a ronin...
**[10:43] kane**
That's what he said as he left Kanazawa.
**[10:46] mosuke**
So he became a ronin
for the sake of righteousness?
**[10:49] kane**
Indeed. That is the spirit
of an eccentric.
**[10:53] kane**
This was what you told me, was it not?
**[10:56] not a girl**
Indeed. That is what I heard.
**[11:03] not**
E-Excuse me, sirs!
You can't come in here like that!
**[11:06] ronin**
Shut up!
**[11:10] kane**
To bring your swords in here...
**[11:13] kane**
They're just going to rust.
What a waste.
**[11:18] ronin**
Shut up and listen.
**[11:20] ronin**
We recognize you as Naoe
Kanetsugu of the Uesugi clan.
**[11:24] mosuke**
So what if he is?
**[11:25] ronin**
We have heard that you
**[11:28] ---**
will be mediating Yamada Kihachi's
current wife's uwanariuchi.
**[11:32] ronin**
We'd like you to decline.
**[11:34] kane**
Oh? Why might that be?
**[11:37] ronin**
As you know, Maeda Keiji-dono
**[11:40] ---**
will be participating
in this uwanariuchi.
**[11:44] ronin**
Keiji-dono is a legitimate eccentric.
**[11:47] ronin**
Despite it being a fight among women,
there is no doubt
**[11:50] ronin**
that he will not care,
and there will be bloodshed.
**[11:53] ronin**
But we have heard that
**[11:56] ---**
a retainer of the Uesugi
clan will be mediating.
**[11:58] ronin**
This will just make
things more difficult.
**[12:01] ronin**
That is why we would
like you to withdraw.
**[12:05] kane**
I see.
**[12:06] ---**
So you'd like to hurry
and receive the cash that
**[12:09] ---**
will be given to stop this feud.
**[12:11] ronin**
Shut your mouth!
**[12:12] ronin**
We are just trying to stop
**[12:14] ---**
anyone from getting hurt
during this uwanariuchi!
**[12:17] ronin**
First of all, you are
obviously unarmed!
**[12:21] ---**
You cannot refuse!
**[12:22] kane**
Well then. Are you here
on Keiji-dono's behalf?
**[12:25] ronin**
That doesn't matter!
**[12:40] mosuke**
That's...
**[12:42] kane**
I ask again.
**[12:43] ---**
Are you here on Keiji-dono's behalf?
**[12:47] ronin**
Sh-Sh-Shut up!
**[12:48] ronin**
We have no reason to answer!
**[12:55] ninja**
No shinobi would ever leave
his master completely unarmed.
**[13:02] kane**
Thank you for the information in regards
**[13:04] ---**
to Keiji-dono absconding, Jirobo.
**[13:08] kane**
Because of that, I now see
the truth behind this uwanariuchi.
**[13:24] guy**
Kihachi...
**[13:26] guy**
calm yourself.
**[13:28] hachi**
Y-You say that, but we're
dealing with Maeda Keiji!
**[13:32] hachi**
My body is shaking on its own!
**[13:34] guy**
Good grief. I apologize
for this, Kanetsugu-sama.
**[13:40] guy**
But why did you divorce
your previous wife
**[13:44] ---**
and marry your new one within a month?
**[13:50] guy**
If you had waited,
there wouldn't be such
**[13:52] ---**
a grudge, and this whole thing
could have been avoided.
**[13:55] hachi**
But I was lonely...
**[13:56] kane**
Indeed...
**[13:58] kane**
The only one here with no
righteousness is Kihachi.
**[14:00] mosuke**
I wonder if Maeda
Keiji's really coming?
**[14:04] jirobo**
Jeez...
**[14:06] jirobo**
Kanetsugu-sama told us to stay behind.
**[14:10] mosuke**
Well, if this guy's that much
of an eccentric, I'd like to see it.
**[14:15] mosuke**
That, and there's something
that concerns me.
**[14:18] jirobo**
Concerns you?
**[14:19] mosuke**
Yeah. About the master
yesterday at the bath..
**[14:23] mosuke**
He looked like something
else yesterday.
**[14:28] jirobo**
Something else?
**[14:30] mosuke**
I swear I've seen it before...
**[14:33] mosuke**
Do you happen to know, Jirobo?
**[14:36] jirobo**
Did you see it?
**[14:38] mosuke**
Huh?
**[14:40] jirobo**
If you saw it, forget about it!
**[14:42] mosuke**
B-But what was that...
**[14:45] jirobo**
I can tell you, but are you
prepared to die for it?
**[14:49] mosuke**
Huh? Die for it? Why?
**[14:52] jirobo**
That is something Kanetsugu-sama
is going to take to his grave.
**[14:56] jirobo**
You're better off not knowing.
**[15:00] mosuke**
O-Okay...
**[15:03] jirobo**
Looks like they're here.
**[15:12] new**
Everyone, get ready.
We are going to strike.
**[15:15] ladies**
Right!
**[15:18] hachi**
Th-They're here!
**[15:25] old**
You know why it's come to this.
**[15:29] new**
I haven't done anything wrong,
but it appears this is inevitable.
**[15:34] old**
You have good resolve.
**[15:36] ---**
But don't think this battle
will end so easily.
**[15:40] old**
Maeda-sama! I formally
ask for your help!
**[15:44] fake**
Right. Leave it to me.
**[15:48] hachi**
Th-That's Maeda Keiji?
**[15:53] hachi**
He looks strong...
**[15:55] hachi**
There's no chance!
**[15:56] ---**
I-I'll have the money
prepared immediately!
**[15:58] hachi**
Ow!
**[15:59] guy**
Shut your mouth...
**[16:01] guy**
Kanetsugu-sama.
**[16:12] mosuke**
Looks like the master
isn't going to wait to fight.
**[16:24] kane**
Excuse me.
**[16:42] fake**
You appear to be
**[16:44] ---**
Naoe Kanetsugu of the Uesugi clan,
but what do you want?
**[16:49] kane**
Indeed... You shall not interfere
with this uwanariuchi.
**[16:54] fake**
Oh? You plan to take me on
with that fly swatter?
**[16:59] kane**
Indeed.
**[17:00] fake**
Are you implying that I'm a fly?
**[17:04] kane**
Indeed. A fly after money.
**[17:07] fake**
Wh-What?!
**[17:10] fake**
Oh? Ah, the arbitrary cash. I see.
**[17:15] fake**
So you have readied it.
**[17:25] fake**
These are...
**[17:27] kane**
It's as it looks.
**[17:29] kane**
They are the heads of the minions
you sent after me yesterday.
**[17:35] kane**
What you should be doing now
is not act as their helper,
**[17:40] kane**
but to hold a service for these men.
**[17:43] kane**
Isn't that your righteousness?
**[17:48] kane**
Now, let's see it!
**[17:51] kane**
Your righteousness
towards these men!
**[17:55] mosuke**
S-See! There it is again!
That shadow...
**[17:58] mosuke**
It's almost like Bishamon...
**[18:02] mosuke**
I-I mean... I must be seeing things.
**[18:06] fake**
I don't know who these men are!
**[18:09] fake**
They have nothing to do with me!
**[18:13] fake**
Who do you think I am?
**[18:17] fake**
I'm Maeda—
**[18:17] keiji**
You're Maeda Keiji.
**[18:19] fake**
Th-That's right! Exactly right!
**[18:23] fake**
I don't know who you might be,
**[18:25] ---**
but you seem to comprehend
what's going on.
**[18:28] fake**
Why don't you tell him
who I am? Tell this fool!
**[18:40] fake**
Huh? You're kidding... seriously?
**[18:45] fake**
Maeda Keiji?! Th-The real one!
**[18:48] fake**
Damn it!
**[19:04] keiji**
You're not worth rusting my spear.
**[19:07] kane**
Indeed, he is not worth it.
**[19:14] hachi**
I-Is he dead?!
**[19:19] guy**
It's as if a tiger just struck...
**[19:22] mosuke**
Wh-What's going on?
**[19:25] jirobo**
As you can see,
**[19:27] ---**
an eccentric who had heard
the details of this uwanariuchi
**[19:32] jirobo**
suggested the money to the ex-wife
**[19:34] ---**
and said that he was Maeda Keiji.
**[19:39] jirobo**
The men yesterday were also involved.
**[19:42] jirobo**
Hearing that Naoe-sama was now involved,
**[19:45] ---**
they tried to stop him.
**[19:49] keiji**
Naoe-dono, it's been a while since
the battle at Kasugayama Castle.
**[19:55] kane**
Maeda Keiji-dono.
**[19:57] keiji**
I know what's going on.
**[20:00] ---**
Do as you please.
**[20:02] kane**
You... Hear me!
**[20:05] kane**
This is not an uwanariuchi!
**[20:08] kane**
It is a battle of life or death!
**[20:11] kane**
Therefore, we will not be involved.
**[20:14] kane**
I, Naoe, and Maeda-dono shall observe.
**[20:17] kane**
Fight to your heart's content!
**[20:23] hachi**
Y-You can't be serious!
**[20:39] mosuke**
Wow, this has definitely
turned into something...
**[21:02] keiji**
Are you sure you're okay with this?
**[21:05] ---**
That man will be killed.
**[21:06] kane**
No one will come out
**[21:08] ---**
righteous from this fight
if we were to stop it.
**[21:11] keiji**
But I hear that man's father is
a chief vassal of the Uesugi clan.
**[21:19] kane**
If anyone has a problem with it,
**[21:22] kane**
I shall deal with them in battle.
**[21:31] kane**
Please feel free to laugh.
**[21:34] kane**
This is my righteousness.
**[21:56] both**
Let us drink!
***SIGN*** Episode 3 Keiji's Righteousness
**[23:40] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou: Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:45] kane**
Episode 3
"Keiji's Righteousness."
**[23:48] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 3 - Keiji's Righteousness
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***SIGN*** Tarobei's Mansion
**[00:04] nar**
This man
**[00:06] nar**
is the man who was known as
an unparalleled samurai,
**[00:08] nar**
as well as a legitimate eccentric.
**[00:12] nar**
Maeda Keiji.
**[00:14] nar**
And this other samurai
**[00:18] nar**
is Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[00:20] nar**
Part of the Uesugi clan,
he is the governor
**[00:21] nar**
of 300,000 koku
of the Yonezawa fiefdom,
**[00:24] nar**
and Keiji's best friend.
**[00:28] keiji**
The moon upon the lake
is a beautiful sight.
**[00:33] keiji**
The moon...
**[00:35] keiji**
If you think about it,
**[00:37] ---**
the two of us are like moons
that are shadows of the sun.
**[00:41] kane**
Indeed.
**[00:42] ---**
Originally, you were set
to carry on the Maeda name...
**[00:47] kane**
Yet, with one word
from Lord Nobunaga,
**[00:49] ---**
that title was stolen
by Toshiie-dono.
**[00:54] keiji**
It's all right.
**[00:55] ---**
Because of that, I get to sit here
and admire the beauties of nature.
**[01:00] keiji**
However, the moon you had to bare
was rather troublesome.
**[01:07] keiji**
Because you concealed the fact
that you were a retainer.
**[01:12] keiji**
Therefore, for those who could see,
it was beautiful
**[01:16] keiji**
and for those who could not see,
they didn't see a thing.
**[01:22] keiji**
It took me by surprise
when I found out, as well.
**[01:37] keiji**
Indeed. It was during
the battle for Sado in 1589.
**[01:57] nar**
The character "gi" (righteousness),
combines "oneself" with "sheep."
**[02:01] nar**
"Sheep" is the same as "beauty."
**[02:05] nar**
Therefore, "gi" means
"to make yourself beautiful."
**[02:09] nar**
I repeat.
**[02:11] nar**
"Gi" truly means
"For one to live beautifully."
**[02:22] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[02:28] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[02:32] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** Keiji's Righteousness
***SIGN*** Kyoto: Jurakudai
**[04:01] kane**
It all started when my lord,
Uesugi Kagekatsu
**[04:06] kane**
was summoned to Jurakudai in Kyoto.
**[04:11] keiji**
Indeed.
**[04:12] keiji**
And the one waiting
for him there was my uncle,
**[04:15] [SONG] sign**
Maeda Toshiie
**[04:16] ---**
Maeda Toshiie.
**[04:18] kane**
And one other...
**[04:20] kane**
The ruler of the land,
Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
***SIGN*** Toyotomi Hideyoshi
**[04:48] hide**
Welcome, Kagekatsu-dono.
**[04:54] hide**
So, how have things been in Echigo?
**[05:00] hide**
Securing peace in Echigo
with the defeat of Shibata.
**[05:05] hide**
They say a hot summer
will be upon us.
**[05:08] hide**
I'm sure that Kasugayama
is now a lot easier to live in,
**[05:11] hide**
and that you feel at ease.
**[05:15] katsu**
Indeed.
**[05:19] hide**
But...
**[05:21] hide**
Do you not want Sado,
Uesugi-dono?
**[05:26] hide**
Two years ago when I headed
to the capital, I thought I told you
**[05:35] hide**
To conquer Sado.
**[05:41] hide**
The Honma clan of Sado
keep repeating their internal strife
**[05:44] hide**
and refused to listen to any
mediation from you.
**[05:52] hide**
Are you not able to even conquer
a tiny little island, Uesugi-dono?
**[05:57] hide**
I'm asking you if you're incapable
of conquering it or not?
**[06:02] hide**
Well?! How about it, Kagekatsu-dono?
**[06:08] toshi**
Ashina.
**[06:11] toshi**
I've heard that the Aizu-Ashina clan
are trying to get their hands on Sado.
**[06:17] kage**
The Ashina?!
**[06:25] hide**
Mataza-dono, it appears that Uesugi-dono is going to let the Ashina have Sado.
**[06:58] kage**
Curse you, Ashina.
**[07:01] kage**
Curse you, samurai of Sado!
**[07:03] kane**
It was careless.
**[07:05] kane**
I believe this is a trap.
**[07:07] kage**
What?
**[07:08] kane**
Ashina's current head, Yoshihiro,
**[07:10] ---**
was just adopted in,
is only fourteen,
**[07:12] kane**
and is barely able to reign
over his own land.
***SIGN*** Echigo Aizu
**[07:17] kage**
True.
**[07:19] kane**
I believe that someone else
is pulling the strings.
**[07:22] kage**
Someone else?
**[07:23] kane**
Indeed.
**[07:25] kane**
It's not as if the civil war
in Sado had just started,
**[07:30] kane**
so why is the Chief Advisor
interested in it now?
**[07:36] kane**
In my opinion...
**[07:38] kane**
I believe this is Sassa
Narimasa all over again.
**[07:41] kage**
That would be...
**[07:43] nar**
Kagekatsu immediately understood
what Kanetsugu was implying,
**[07:46] ---**
and trembled at the thought.
**[07:48] nar**
Because...
**[07:50] kane**
Indeed.
**[07:51] kane**
Around that time,
**[07:53] ---**
Sassa Narimasa was moved
from Etchu to Higo.
***SIGN*** Etchu
**[07:59] keiji**
He was supposedly given that land
as compensation for conquering Kyushu.
***SIGN*** Higo
**[08:05] keiji**
It was supposed to appear
like it was a happy move,
**[08:10] ---**
but it was said that
Higo's reign was difficult.
**[08:14] keiji**
Despite that, Narimasa hurried
to go survey the land.
**[08:19] kane**
But the citizens there didn't agree
to any of this, and revolted.
**[08:24] kane**
Narimasa was not able
to contain the revolts.
**[08:27] kane**
And because of that...
**[08:35] keiji**
Sassa Narimasa had to commit
seppuku because of misrule.
**[08:40] keiji**
His clan collapsed.
**[08:43] keiji**
At first glance, it looked like
a regular course of action,
**[08:47] keiji**
but it was, in fact, an ingenious trap
**[08:49] keiji**
that the Imperial Advisor had set
for his former enemy
**[08:53] ---**
who he felt was still in the way.
**[08:57] kane**
My lord,
the prize is not just Sado,
**[09:00] ---**
but Echigo itself.
**[09:06] kage**
That villain...
**[09:08] kane**
No.
**[09:09] ---**
It's because he is a villain that he
was able to conquer the whole country.
**[09:14] kage**
Then Kanetsugu...
**[09:19] kane**
Since it's come to this,
**[09:24] kane**
let's cause a riot.
**[09:43] girl**
Have a drink.
**[09:48] girl**
You, too, Keiji-han.
**[09:49] ---**
Indeed.
**[09:52] keiji**
I see.
**[09:54] keiji**
So, attacking Sado...
**[09:56] kane**
Yes. The details are as I explained.
**[09:58] keiji**
So it's the Chief Advisor's bullying.
**[10:01] kane**
However, the matter of Sado was one
we eventually had to bring to a close.
**[10:06] keiji**
I see.
**[10:08] kane**
And that is why I've come to say
farewell to you tonight, Keiji-dono.
**[10:13] keiji**
Farewell?!
**[10:14] kane**
Yes.
**[10:15] ---**
I don't know when I'll be able
to come back to Kyoto.
**[10:17] kane**
Especially since Sado
may end up being Hell.
**[10:22] kane**
Oh, yes.
**[10:23] ---**
My only regret is that I wasn't able
to show you something interesting.
**[10:28] keiji**
Something interesting?
**[10:30] kane**
Indeed.
**[10:31] ---**
After seeing your single blow
with your spear the other day,
**[10:35] kane**
I wanted to be able to pull off
a similar move myself.
**[10:40] keiji**
I see!
**[10:42] kane**
Do you remember Mosuke?
**[10:45] keiji**
Yes, your spear-bearer.
***SIGN*** Honkokuji
**[10:50] kane**
Before he had met me,
**[10:53] kane**
he was working as a blacksmith.
**[10:56] kane**
He was quite famous for his skills.
**[11:01] kane**
So I asked him to make me one.
**[11:03] kane**
However,
**[11:04] ---**
it was said that it would have been done
right around the time of our departure,
**[11:08] kane**
so I didn't think I'd be able to show you.
**[11:12] keiji**
You have a point...
**[11:20] kane**
Would you play me a tune
**[11:23] kane**
as a farewell gift since
I must head back to Echigo?
**[11:30] keiji**
Sure.
***SIGN*** Echigo
***SIGN*** Kasugayama
***SIGN*** Sado
**[12:45] keiji**
The location of Sado
**[12:47] ---**
is almost as if there was
a blade to Echigo's throat.
***SIGN*** Ashina Clan
**[12:49] [SONG] sign**
Maeda Clan
**[12:51] keiji**
And they have gold.
**[12:54] keiji**
My uncle had wanted it.
**[12:57] keiji**
My uncle and the Chief Advisor.
**[12:58] keiji**
And then Sado's Honma clan.
**[13:02] keiji**
They're all in this together.
**[13:05] chick**
Well, that's rather
unfortunate for Naoe-han.
**[13:08] keiji**
Curse you, Uncle.
**[13:10] ---**
I had even prepared
an ice water bath for him,
**[13:14] keiji**
but he still hasn't come to his senses.
**[13:17] keiji**
Usugumo, there is
something that I need.
**[13:24] usu**
My, what do you plan to do with that?
**[13:29] keiji**
I'd like to show Kanetsugu-dono
**[13:31] keiji**
something interesting, as well.
**[13:35] usu**
But...
**[13:36] usu**
You're dealing with the man
who conquered the country, right?
**[13:44] keiji**
That's why it'll be interesting!
**[13:47] kane**
Onward!
**[14:11] toshi**
They have departed!
**[14:13] toshi**
The men of the Uesugi clan
have departed for Sado!
**[14:18] toshi**
They're heading right into our trap
without suspecting a thing!
**[14:24] hide**
I see! So they did leave!
**[14:27] hide**
That means that Echigo
will soon be in our hands!
**[14:39] kane**
What was that?
**[14:47] soldier**
R-Reporting.
**[14:50] kage**
What is it?
**[14:51] soldier**
A suspicious-looking man
riding a terrifyingly large horse
**[14:55] ---**
is blocking the road.
**[14:57] kane**
Suspicious-looking man?
**[14:58] kage**
Well? Did you kill him?
**[15:01] soldier**
Um, uh, well...
**[15:03] soldier**
A-Actually...
**[15:18] soldier**
H-Halt! Halt!
**[15:27] keiji**
Whoa, there.
**[15:33] keiji**
This barbarian armor
is built quite well!
**[15:40] soldier**
Wh-Who the hell is this guy?!
**[16:00] keiji**
Come on.
**[16:03] kane**
Were you looking for someone to fight?
**[16:17] kane**
If that's the case...
**[16:41] soldier**
Wh-What the hell?!
**[16:42] soldier**
Amazing!
**[16:58] mosuke**
I finally caught up!
**[17:07] kane**
Mosuke, bring out the thing.
**[17:09] mosuke**
Huh? Y-Yes, sir.
**[17:14] mosuke**
Here you are.
**[17:24] kane**
I see...
**[17:32] kane**
So this is what you're after?
**[17:35] kane**
If that's the case...
**[17:49] soldier**
What the...
**[17:51] soldier**
Now he's just dodging!
**[17:53] soldier**
But why? It's just a fan, isn't it?
**[17:55] mosuke**
You fool!
**[17:56] ---**
That is the ultimate fan I created!
**[18:22] soldier**
Wh-What the hell?!
**[18:24] mosuke**
I told you.
**[18:26] ---**
It's the ultimate.
**[18:28] mosuke**
It's made of iron, after all.
**[18:31] soldier**
I-Iron?!
**[18:33] soldier**
Iron? But he's waving it
around like it's nothing?
**[18:42] kane**
Very well done, indeed, Mosuke.
**[18:45] mosuke**
Thank you.
**[18:52] mosuke**
What?!
**[18:57] kane**
I see...
**[18:58] mosuke**
Hey, hey...
**[19:01] mosuke**
That can't be...
**[19:06] kane**
Well, then.
**[19:32] mosuke**
What? He just hit him?
**[20:00] kane**
That should be enough,
**[20:03] kane**
Maeda Keiji-dono.
**[20:05] all**
What?!
**[20:19] keiji**
All right, all right.
**[20:31] keiji**
A single blow from your iron fan
**[20:33] ---**
is much more powerful
than that of a bullet.
**[20:37] keiji**
It reverberated in my armor,
**[20:39] soldier**
and my ears are all messed up.
**[20:47] soldier**
Th-That's the legendary Maeda Keiji?!
**[20:50] mosuke**
What the hell?
**[20:51] ---**
So you two were pretty much playing?
**[20:53] kane**
Maeda-dono,
**[20:55] ---**
what brought you here?
**[20:57] keiji**
Well...
**[20:58] keiji**
I wanted to see the interesting
thing you spoke of, no matter what,
**[21:03] keiji**
and see? I wanted to show you this, too.
**[21:08] kane**
That wasn't your only motive.
**[21:20] keiji**
I, Maeda Keiji, have come
to aid in this battle!
**[21:28] kane**
But this battle
**[21:31] ---**
is like sticking your head
into the tiger's den.
**[21:35] keiji**
It's because you are battling a tiger
**[21:38] ---**
that I have come to help.
**[21:43] keiji**
That is my righteousness!
**[22:02] kane**
All units, onward to Sado!
***SIGN*** Episode 4 Arrival in Sado
**[23:41] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou: Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:44] kane**
Episode 4
"Arrival in Sado."
**[23:47] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 4 - Arrival in Sado
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**[00:04] keiji**
What a horrible thing to happen.
**[00:06] kane**
Indeed.
**[00:07] kane**
Around that time, Hideyoshi's
former enemy, Sassa Narimasa,
**[00:10] kane**
was sent to lead
the Kyushu government,
**[00:13] kane**
sending him to Higo from Etchu.
**[00:16] keiji**
It appeared to be a joyous event,
**[00:19] keiji**
but Higo was in turmoil.
**[00:22] keiji**
Narimasa was met with
opposition from the citizens,
**[00:25] keiji**
and couldn't contain the revolts.
**[00:27] kane**
Sassa Narimasa had to commit
seppuku because of misrule.
**[00:32] kane**
His family collapsed.
**[00:34] kane**
But Hideyoshi had foreseen all of this
**[00:36] kane**
and was the one who
set up this ingenious trap.
**[00:39] kane**
And that same trap has now
been set for us, the Uesugi clan.
**[00:43] hide**
* Do you not want Sado,*
* Uesugi-dono?*
**[00:51] kane**
Since he had not been able
to stop the civil war in Sado,
**[00:56] kane**
there was nothing
he could say in return.
**[00:58] kane**
Despite knowing this was a trap
**[01:00] kane**
that Hideyoshi had set
in order to obtain Echigo,
**[01:02] kane**
we headed into Sado to conquer it.
**[01:06] kane**
And that was when...
**[01:13] keiji**
It's obvious that my conniving uncle
is involved in this matter.
**[01:19] kane**
But this battle
**[01:21] kane**
is like sticking your head
into the tiger's den...
**[01:26] keiji**
It's because you are battling a tiger
**[01:29] keiji**
that I have come to help.
**[01:32] keiji**
That is my righteousness!
**[01:35] kane**
That's what you said, wasn't it?
**[01:41] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[01:47] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[01:51] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** Arrival in Sado
**[03:19] man**
I have to hurry! At this rate,
**[03:21] man**
all of our efforts
will have been for nothing!
**[03:30] lady**
Pardon me.
**[03:32] lady**
If you'd like, I shall say
a Buddhist chant for you.
**[03:36] man**
Shut up! I don't have time for—
**[03:44] man**
You bitch...
**[03:54] jiro**
I'm sorry! I didn't make it in time.
**[03:57] lady**
W-We have to tell them...
**[04:02] lady**
That land is...
**[04:08] jiro**
Th-That's...
**[04:11] hide**
Sado!
**[04:16] toshi**
I see...
**[04:21] hide**
The Kawarada-Honma
clan of northern Sado,
**[04:25] hide**
and the Hamochi-Honma
clan of southern Sado...
**[04:30] hide**
What a troublesome clan.
**[04:33] toshi**
Fighting over land
for the supremacy of Sado,
**[04:37] toshi**
they have no intention
of listening to Uesugi's mediation.
**[04:42] hide**
But because of that,
**[04:46] hide**
it seems that Uesugi will be bringing
**[04:49] hide**
a giant army to Sado this time.
**[04:52] toshi**
Amusingly, because of that,
the two feuding clans
**[04:57] toshi**
will join together to ensure
that no one takes Sado.
**[05:03] hide**
That is how people are.
**[05:09] nar**
June 10, 1589. Sawane Harbor.
***SIGN*** June 10, 1589, Sawane Harbor
**[05:22] keiji**
Land boldly floating
in the wide open sea...
**[05:25] keiji**
what a grand sight.
**[05:28] keiji**
On top of that,
thinking about the trap
**[05:31] keiji**
that awaits us on that island
just makes me even more excited.
**[05:36] kane**
I expect nothing less from you, Keiji-dono.
**[05:40] kane**
Behold, Kagekatsu-sama.
**[05:43] kane**
The advance army lead by
Fujita Nobuyoshi-dono is already waiting.
**[05:49] kage**
Indeed.
**[05:50] kane**
And, apparently, the stewards
of northern Sado await our arrival.
**[05:56] keiji**
Those dogs. I wonder what
they have up their sleeves.
**[06:01] kage**
Let us get them drunk
and make them talk.
**[06:08] keiji**
That would be amusing.
**[06:12] kane**
However...
**[06:13] kane**
it's not the dogs who have laid out this trap.
**[06:18] kane**
The real enemy behind this
**[06:21] kane**
is the tiger hiding behind the dogs.
**[06:29] kage**
So how shall we lure him out?
**[06:38] kane**
Fear not.
**[06:40] kane**
I have a secret plan in motion.
**[06:55] fat**
Uesugi, my ass. How annoying.
**[07:02] guy**
Reporting.
**[07:03] guy**
Uesugi's main army has landed.
**[07:10] guy**
Takatsuna-sama, will Uesugi trust us?
**[07:18] fat**
Well, just watch.
**[07:20] fat**
I'll make him trust us.
**[07:23] nar**
This man is Honma Takatsuna.
The head of the Kawarada-Honma clan,
**[07:26] nar**
which reigned over northern Sado.
***SIGN*** Honma Takatsuna
**[07:28] nar**
Honma Takatsuna
***SIGN*** Hamochi County
***SIGN*** Hamochi Castle
***SIGN*** Kawarada Castle Sawato County
**[07:31] ---**
At the time, Sado was
its own kingdom.
**[07:35] nar**
After the Jokyu War in 1221,
***SIGN*** Kamo County
**[07:38] nar**
the Honma clan that was
transferred to the island
**[07:44] nar**
had split up all across the land,
establishing their own territories,
**[07:47] nar**
and then fought over
supremacy of the land.
**[07:51] nar**
Eventually, two of the clans succeeded:
**[07:54] nar**
the northern clan of Kawarada-Honma,
who sided with Shibata Shigeie
**[07:58] nar**
and the Hamochi-Honma clan,
who put Uesugi Kagekatsu behind them,
**[08:03] nar**
thus, intensifying the fight
for supremacy of Sado.
**[08:09] nar**
Two years prior, however,
Shibata was destroyed by Uesugi,
**[08:15] nar**
and Uesugi had then tried to take over Sado.
**[08:26] kage**
Head of the Honma clan,
raise your head.
**[08:41] fat**
Greetings, my lord.
**[08:44] fat**
Welcome to Sado.
**[08:48] kage**
How goes the battle?
**[08:49] fat**
Huh? Oh, right!
**[08:52] fat**
The Hamochi of the south
refuse to listen to your mediation,
**[08:55] fat**
despite you being their lord,
Uesugi-sama.
**[08:58] fat**
They are planning to battle with us Kawarada.
**[09:03] fat**
However, Kagekatsu-sama,
we have resolved ourselves.
**[09:08] fat**
Please, please, please
**[09:11] fat**
leave the vanguard to me,
Honma Takatsuna.
**[09:15] fat**
That would be my greatest honor.
**[09:20] fat**
Please, please.
**[09:23] fat**
Vanguard, vanguard.
Smile, smile.
**[09:27] kage**
Well said.
**[09:31] fat**
Thank you! I am honored!
**[09:33] lackies**
We are honored!
**[09:39] keiji**
That dog...
**[09:40] keiji**
he has no idea that
his deception has failed.
**[09:45] kane**
Let's allow them to do
their little dance for a while.
**[10:20] mosuke**
My lord! I found it!
**[10:22] mosuke**
We can see the battlefield from up here.
**[10:32] kane**
This is splendid.
**[10:34] nar**
A river flows through the land
**[10:36] nar**
as if intentionally
splitting Sado in half.
**[10:39] nar**
The Kawarada-Honma
clan of the north
**[10:42] nar**
and the Hamochi-Honma
clan of the south
**[10:45] nar**
fought along this river.
**[10:48] nar**
But it was also the site
of a stalemate for both parties.
**[11:08] fuji**
Takatsuna-dono!
I request an audience with you!
**[11:17] fat**
Oww...
**[11:18] fat**
What the hell do you want? Jeez...
**[11:21] fuji**
What is the meaning of this,
Takatsuna-dono?
**[11:25] fat**
Meaning? Meaning of what?
**[11:27] fuji**
It is good that you have been put in charge
of the vanguard for Kagekatsu-sama
**[11:30] fuji**
and have set up camp on this land,
**[11:32] fuji**
but we've just been in a staring contest
**[11:34] fuji**
with the Hamochi army
and haven't had a single battle!
**[11:36] fuji**
What is the meaning of this?
**[11:38] fat**
You don't understand the war
of Sado, Fujita-dono.
**[11:42] fat**
We have fought repeatedly over
supremacy of Sado for years.
**[11:48] fat**
I know the enemy
like the back of my hand.
**[11:51] fuji**
If that's the case, get along with it!
**[11:52] fat**
No.
**[11:53] fat**
Both armies know the other
like the backs of their hands,
**[11:56] fat**
meaning it'd be better to not
thoughtlessly make any moves, right now.
**[12:00] fuji**
Thoughtlessly?
**[12:04] fuji**
Oh, forget it!
**[12:07] fuji**
If all else fails, I will take
the first step into battle.
**[12:11] fuji**
Do you understand,
Takatsuna-dono?
**[12:17] fat**
Uh, you really shouldn't.
**[12:24] fat**
Oh, well. Whatever, then.
**[12:29] fuji**
Charge!
**[12:35] fuji**
Look! They're so frightened
that they can't even move.
**[12:39] fuji**
We shall take care of them
in a single blow!
**[12:46] fuji**
What?
**[12:50] fuji**
Wh-What?
**[12:56] fuji**
Look out! The reeds!
**[12:58] fuji**
They're hiding in the reeds!
**[13:08] soldiers**
Now!
**[13:16] fuji**
Wh-What...
**[13:19] fuji**
Pull back! Pull back! Retreat!
**[13:21] fuji**
Retreat!
**[13:32] fat**
I told you so!
**[13:36] fat**
Isn't that right, Takasue of the South?
***SIGN*** Hamochi Castle
**[13:44] guy**
I see. It appears
that Takatsuna of the Kawarada
**[13:48] guy**
is manipulating
the Uesugi quite well.
***SIGN*** Honma Takasue
**[13:54] nar**
Honma Takasue is the lord of Hamochi Castle
**[13:58] nar**
and is the lord of the Hamochi-Honma clan
**[13:59] nar**
that governs southern Sado.
**[14:03] taka**
But to think that the Uesugi army
**[14:06] taka**
would go running
after a little attack like that.
**[14:11] taka**
It appears that the Uesugi army
has gone downhill.
**[14:17] taka**
And they thought they
could take over Sado.
**[14:20] taka**
It's true that Kenshin
had authority over us
**[14:24] taka**
but this Kagekatsu has
no right to try to govern us.
**[14:28] taka**
The Uesugi clan should
just disappear while in Sado.
**[14:43] fuji**
My apologies, Kagekatsu-sama!
**[14:50] fuji**
I led the troops without permission
and with this kind of a result...
**[14:57] kage**
It's fine.
**[14:58] fuji**
But...
**[15:00] kane**
Fujita-dono, this first battle
was not wasted.
**[15:05] kane**
Actually, we were able
to find out quite a bit.
**[15:09] fuji**
What do you mean by that, sir?
**[15:12] kane**
Please look.
**[15:13] kane**
The Hamochi army is heavily laid out,
determined not to let us cross the river.
**[15:20] fuji**
That is, indeed, a troublesome defense.
**[15:23] fuji**
But with the size
of our Uesugi army,
**[15:26] fuji**
it is possible to push them
back with just our numbers.
**[15:29] kane**
Yes, but if Takatsuna's army
were to attack us from behind...
**[15:37] fuji**
That would leave us surrounded!
**[15:39] fuji**
Does that mean the Sado armies...
**[15:41] kane**
Indeed. As long as we know that
the two are working together,
**[15:46] kane**
it's dangerous for us
to make the first move.
**[15:48] fuji**
But the Kawarada army
won't move on its own.
**[15:53] fuji**
That means a battle will never start.
**[15:56] keiji**
So what shall we do?
**[15:58] keiji**
Get them drunk and
make them talk, after all?
**[16:03] kane**
No... More importantly...
**[16:14] mosuke**
Where are you going? Jirobo?
**[16:24] keiji**
This is... Buddhist chanting.
**[16:28] mosuke**
At a place like this?
**[16:36] mosuke**
Wh-What?
**[16:54] keiji**
These women...
**[16:56] kane**
Kumano Buddhist nuns.
**[16:58] kane**
They bear the sorrows of the world
**[17:00] kane**
and have no choice
but to rely on Buddha.
**[17:07] nar**
The Kumano Buddhist nuns
were nuns who carried boxes
**[17:13] nar**
with the Kumano mandalas
that visualized Paradise and Hell,
**[17:17] nar**
making pilgrimages across the land
while interpreting the pictures.
**[17:22] nar**
And this nun was
named Seion.
***SIGN*** Sister Seion
**[17:27] nar**
She is a nun who brought
the Kumano Kanshin Jukkai Mandala to Sado
**[17:32] nar**
and eventually would be the one
to opened the red-light district in Sado.
**[17:37] mosuke**
Wow, she's gorgeous.
**[17:49] seion**
Those with Kaga dialect
have been going in and out
**[17:53] seion**
of Kawarada Castle
and Hamochi Castle.
**[17:57] jiro**
The Kaga shinobi of the Maeda clan.
**[18:00] mosuke**
Shinobi?
**[18:02] mosuke**
But how did you find that out?
**[18:04] mosuke**
Shinobi wouldn't let their
identities be known that easily...
**[18:07] keiji**
I see!
**[18:09] keiji**
So Naoe-dono's secret plan was
to make use of these women.
**[18:15] seion**
It's because we're
women that it works.
**[18:17] seion**
Men... say things quite easily
**[18:21] seion**
in bed.
**[18:25] keiji**
Point taken...
**[18:28] seion**
Naoe-sama, as you already know,
the north and the south
**[18:33] seion**
are planning to continue
this facade of a war.
**[18:36] kane**
What's the ulterior motive behind that?
**[18:38] seion**
Hideyoshi's messenger
has already left Kyoto.
**[18:43] mosuke**
Huh? What? Why would a messenger
of mediation have left
**[18:47] mosuke**
if the battle hasn't started yet...
**[18:50] kane**
That messenger will claim
the Uesugi clan is incompetent
**[18:54] kane**
for not being able to bring
Sado under control.
**[18:59] mosuke**
Sir?
**[19:00] keiji**
I see.
**[19:05] keiji**
That'd be more than
enough of an excuse
**[19:08] keiji**
for Hideyoshi to take
the Uesugi clan's land from them.
**[19:13] mosuke**
Th-That's so selfish!
**[19:15] jiro**
No, this whole battle in Sado
was to render the Uesugi clan powerless.
**[19:24] kane**
It appears that the identity
of the tiger is becoming apparent.
**[19:30] hide**
But...
**[19:33] hide**
You can't run now,
can you, Uesugi?
***SIGN*** Uesugi
**[19:43] keiji**
An island with no righteousness...
**[19:45] keiji**
so that is Sado.
**[19:47] kane**
No, that's not true.
**[19:52] keiji**
Who is the one being cremated here?
**[19:57] seion**
She was only fifteen...
**[20:00] seion**
This nun...
**[20:02] seion**
died to dispose of the Kaga
shinobi who was onto us.
**[20:10] jiro**
If only...
**[20:12] jiro**
If I was in Sado earlier,
I could have saved her life.
**[20:19] seion**
It's all right.
This is also fate.
**[20:34] kane**
This rugosa rose
was blooming on the shore.
**[20:39] kane**
Please use it as a hair accessory
for your trip into the next world.
**[21:07] seion**
Everything is for us to make
this land a safe land.
**[21:19] keiji**
Then this nun was also...
**[21:24] keiji**
a soldier.
**[21:38] keiji**
Naoe-dono...
**[21:41] keiji**
It appears we need to settle
this battle as soon as possible.
**[21:47] kane**
Because of that, we...
**[22:03] both**
...become fierce dragons!
***SIGN*** Episode 5 Attack on Sado
**[23:40] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:44] kane**
Episode 5
"Attack on Sado."
**[23:47] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 5 - Attack on Sado
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**[00:02] keiji**
The moon tonight shines upon even
the koi swimming under the water.
**[00:07] keiji**
However, at Sado, we were, indeed,
koi upon a cutting board.
**[00:15] kane**
Yes.
**[00:17] kane**
That was June of 1589.
**[00:19] kane**
Due to the scheme of the Chief Advisor
at the time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi,
**[00:23] kane**
we headed to Sado, with the fate
of the Uesugi clan in our hands.
**[00:27] keiji**
However, what we saw there was
a foolish play due to the fact that
**[00:30] keiji**
the Kawarada-Honma clan of the north
and the Hamochi-Honma clan of the south
**[00:34] keiji**
had joined together secretly
and were pretending to be at war.
**[00:39] kane**
Because of that, we were unable to act,
**[00:43] kane**
and we almost were destroyed
**[00:46] kane**
without being able to bring
the Chief Advisor's scheme to light.
**[00:50] keiji**
And then your secret plan took flight!
**[00:57] keiji**
These women...
**[01:00] kane**
Kumano Buddhist nuns.
**[01:02] kane**
They bear the sorrows of the world
**[01:04] kane**
and have no choice
but to rely on Buddha.
**[01:10] keiji**
I see!
**[01:12] keiji**
So Naoe-dono's secret plan
was to make use of these women.
**[01:18] seion**
Hideyoshi's messenger
has already left Kyoto.
**[01:24] kane**
That messenger will claim
the Uesugi clan is incompetent
**[01:27] kane**
for not being able to bring
Sado under control.
**[01:36] keiji**
That'd be more than
enough of an excuse
**[01:39] keiji**
for Hideyoshi to take
the Uesugi clan's land from them.
**[01:49] kane**
Because of that, we...
**[01:53] both**
...became fierce dragons!
**[02:01] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[02:07] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[02:11] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** Attack on Sado
**[04:24] keiji**
They aren't even bearing flags...
**[04:27] keiji**
They aren't soldiers.
**[04:29] seion**
They are mere farmers.
**[04:31] mosuke**
What?! Why are farmers
dressed as soldiers?
**[04:36] seion**
Those men had their families taken hostage
**[04:40] seion**
and came to the river to be killed.
**[04:43] keiji**
What?!
**[04:46] soldier**
*Stop struggling!*
**[04:46] farmer**
*Please show mercy!*
**[04:47] soldier**
* You don't care what*
* happens to your family?*
**[04:50] farmer**
*B-But...*
**[04:52] son**
*G-Grandfather!*
**[04:54] soldier**
* Shut up! All of you,*
* keep your mouths shut!*
**[04:56] soldier**
*Listen well.*
**[04:58] soldier**
* These geezers have a very, very*
* important job they must do for Sado.*
**[05:03] soldier**
*Right.*
**[05:05] soldier**
* They're going to throw away their lives*
* and become targets for the enemy.*
**[05:10] soldier**
*Now, get moving!*
**[05:12] son**
*Grandfather!*
**[05:17] kane**
How horrible...
**[05:18] kane**
Just for the sake of this foolish play?
**[05:33] sub**
Well done, sir.
**[05:35] taka**
Hmph. I can't really brag
when the targets are that flimsy.
**[05:38] taka**
I'm done.
**[05:42] taka**
More importantly, what about
the Chief Advisor's messenger?
**[05:45] sub**
Yes, sir. They should reach Sado
in about two days.
**[05:54] fat**
I see. Two days, huh?
I can hardly wait.
**[06:01] sub**
Takatsuna-sama, the Uesugi army
has ordered us to cross the river
**[06:05] sub**
and attack the enemy.
**[06:09] fat**
They say that,
**[06:11] fat**
but as soon as we step into the water,
we'll be greeted by a hailstorm of bullets.
**[06:14] fat**
We'd like to move, but we can't.
**[06:16] fat**
Right? Right?
**[06:18] sub**
Yes, sir.
**[06:20] fat**
However, since we should
probably honor their request,
**[06:24] fat**
go ahead and put more
of the farmers into the river.
**[06:33] fat**
Do your best at getting shot!
**[06:43] kane**
I beg of you to wait.
**[06:44] kane**
These men are not soldiers, but farmers
who have nothing to do with this war.
**[06:49] kane**
If you're going to attack the enemy,
why not use your own men?
**[06:54] fat**
What?!
**[06:57] fat**
What are you talking about?
**[07:00] fat**
Unlike you, our Kawarada-Honma
clan lacks numbers,
**[07:04] fat**
so we have no choice
but to attack with farmers!
**[07:10] fat**
Not to mention, these brave farmer
soldiers have volunteered themselves
**[07:16] fat**
to help the North ensure victory. Right?
**[07:20] fat**
Speak the truth, and you know what'll
happen to your family and village. Right?
**[07:26] old**
Y-Yes, sir...
**[07:29] fat**
See? It brings tears to your eyes, doesn't it?
**[07:33] fat**
They're sacrificing themselves for Sado.
**[07:40] mosuke**
These men...
**[07:43] fat**
Alrighty, off you go...
not to the River Styx, but to the River Kou.
**[07:47] old**
Y-Yes, sir...
**[07:50] mosuke**
Hey, wait a second!
**[07:53] olds**
No... This is our duty...
**[07:58] fat**
See? Have fun!
**[08:08] fat**
See ya!
**[08:12] mosuke**
So cruel!
**[08:13] keiji**
This is annoying. How 'bout
we take care of the fat one first?
**[08:18] kane**
No, we'll just have to let them go for now.
**[08:22] kane**
Keiji-dono. Did you not see
the tears in those farmers' eyes?
**[08:36] kane**
Those tears are not from the fear of dying...
**[08:42] kane**
Those are tears of joy
**[08:44] kane**
because they are able to protect
their families and village.
**[08:53] keiji**
Then...
**[08:54] kane**
Indeed! Those are the farmers'
tears of righteousness.
**[09:01] keiji**
Then we will have to completely destroy
this world of suffering known as Sado.
**[09:07] kane**
Yes.
**[09:18] kage**
It's been seven days since we arrived in Sado.
**[09:22] kane**
It appears that we'll have to
proceed with just our army.
**[09:25] fuji**
But if that were to happen,
the army of the North would betray us,
**[09:29] fuji**
join up with the South, bear their fangs at us,
and then have us surrounded.
**[09:33] fuji**
You said that yourself,
did you not, Naoe-dono?
**[09:37] kane**
However, if the fangs
of the South were to break...
**[09:40] fuji**
What?
**[09:44] kage**
The North would then attack the South
since they have no chance of winning,
**[09:47] kage**
and because they fear our fangs.
**[09:51] fuji**
I-I see... do you plan on using
some magic, then, Naoe-dono?
**[10:02] kane**
It's about to begin...
**[10:10] soldier**
Damn it...
**[10:12] soldier**
We keep getting more and more geezers
because Takatsuna-sama's having fun...
**[10:22] soldiers**
Wh-What?!
**[10:30] keiji**
Let's have you leave
those old men behind.
**[10:38] soldier**
M-Monster! Stay back! We'll kill them!
**[10:51] keiji**
I apologize for frightening you.
Now, go back to your villages.
**[10:58] olds**
Thank you! Thank you!
**[11:05] kane**
Mosuke!
**[11:06] mosuke**
Y-Yes, sir!
**[11:11] mosuke**
But why are we taking the North's flags?
**[11:16] kane**
Do you not understand?
**[11:17] kane**
The farmers who were shot
in the river did not have flags,
**[11:20] kane**
and Fujita's army that was
attacked had the Uesugi flags.
**[11:25] kane**
Meaning, the North and the South
are attacking those who do not have flags.
**[11:33] mosuke**
Huh?
**[11:34] kane**
To put it another way, as long as we
have the flags of the North army,
**[11:38] kane**
the South will not fight seriously.
**[11:42] kane**
However, that leaves them less guarded.
**[11:45] mosuke**
I see!
**[11:47] keiji**
Surprising the enemy and attacking
at once will ensure our victory!
**[11:52] mosuke**
But will it really go that easily?
**[11:56] kane**
Of course, this is nothing
more than a wager.
**[12:01] kane**
But know this!
**[12:03] kane**
Both Heaven and Hell are left behind;
**[12:06] kane**
I stand in the moonlit dawn,
free from clouds of attachment.
**[12:11] keiji**
Those words...
**[12:13] keiji**
resonated in my soul.
**[12:16] kane**
Those are the words that
Lord Kenshin said on his deathbed.
***SIGN*** Both Heaven and Hell are left behind;
I stand in the moonlit dawn,
free from clouds of attachment.
**[12:23] keiji**
It doesn't matter whether
the destination is Heaven or Hell.
**[12:26] keiji**
Just like the moonlit dawn,
my soul is bright.
**[12:34] keiji**
A magnificent resolve in the face of death.
Nothing less from Lord Kenshin.
**[12:39] keiji**
And I was about to learn
the greatest secret of the Uesugi clan
**[12:43] keiji**
that linked Lord Kenshin
and Kanetsugu-dono...
**[12:48] keiji**
along with the end of the attack on Sado.
**[12:52] kane**
Yes... But speaking of resolve...
**[12:58] keiji**
The ones we should not forget
are those beautiful soldiers...
**[13:05] seion**
We shall accompany you.
**[13:27] kane**
Y-You're...
**[13:29] nar**
It can be said that in this age of war,
there were no men and women in battle.
**[13:36] nar**
It was not uncommon for women
to be foot soldiers.
**[13:41] kane**
But why would nuns like yourselves do this?
**[13:45] seion**
I shall give you that answer if we survive.
**[13:57] keiji**
It's as if they are flowers
on the battlefield.
**[14:01] fuji**
Naoe-dono is dangerous!
**[14:03] fuji**
I heard that he is going to engage in battle,
using a rather odd method.
**[14:07] fuji**
At this rate, he'll end up as I did the other day when we were defeated by the South!
**[14:13] kage**
Fujita!
**[14:13] fuji**
Yes, sir!
**[14:15] kage**
You will now know the real Kanetsugu.
**[14:18] fuji**
Sir?
**[14:27] fat**
Who the hell are they?
**[14:39] taka**
They seem to be headed this way.
**[14:41] sub**
They are carrying the flags of the North...
**[14:45] taka**
We have no choice.
**[14:46] taka**
Shoot some warning shots
into the sky and scare them off.
**[14:49] sub**
Yes, sir.
**[15:06] soldier**
Hey, we don't have to attack because
they have the North's flags, right?
**[15:10] soldier**
Yeah, that's right.
**[15:27] jiro**
All that's left is to get rid
of this horse trap.
**[15:35] taka**
But did the North have men
who looked like that?
**[15:42] sub**
That barbarian armor and giant horse...
**[15:44] sub**
Could that be Maeda Keiji?!
**[15:48] fat**
What?!
**[15:50] sub**
That is the Uesugi army, after all!
**[15:53] fat**
Im... Im... Impossible!
**[15:57] fat**
Shoot! Shoot them!
Shoot them to death!
**[16:06] fat**
Wh-What?!
**[16:18] kage**
All troops, forward!
**[16:20] army**
Yeah!
**[16:22] kage**
Kick the Kawarada army into the river.
**[16:25] kage**
Cut down any who point a sword at you!
**[16:32] taka**
Th-That's the Uesugi army!
**[16:36] taka**
That means...
**[16:52] seion**
Show these men no mercy!
**[16:58] nuns**
Yes, Milady!
**[17:06] soldiers**
Th-They're monsters—
**[17:14] taka**
I-I-Impossible...
**[17:17] fuji**
Wh-What a surprise!
Is this Naoe Kanetsugu?!
**[17:23] kage**
We will be going as well, Fujita.
We cannot let Kanetsugu die!
**[17:29] fujita**
Yes, sir!
**[17:31] sub**
Mi-Milord! The South's army
is being destroyed,
**[17:35] sub**
and the Uesugi army is heading our way.
**[17:38] sub**
What shall we do? Please decide!
**[17:46] fat**
All troops attack the southern army!
**[17:49] sub**
But, Milord, that's—
**[17:50] fat**
I will not assist a crippled army.
**[17:53] fat**
So we shall strike and destroy
the South's army before Uesugi gets to them!
**[17:58] fat**
That is the only way we will survive!
**[18:12] taka**
Takatsuna! You betrayed us!
**[18:16] fat**
Shut up! Sado is all mine!
**[18:25] fat**
What?
**[18:34] kane**
The winners and losers
have been determined in this battle.
**[18:37] kane**
Consequently, there is no need
for anymore pointless bloodshed.
**[18:41] kane**
Let those, both North and South,
**[18:44] kane**
who pledge allegiance
to the Uesugi clan, surrender now!
**[18:46] kane**
However, if there are
still those who oppose...
**[18:49] kane**
I, Naoe Kanetsugu...
**[18:52] keiji**
And I, Maeda Keiji...
**[18:59] both**
Shall become fierce dragons
and confront you with righteousness!
**[19:37] nar**
The winners and losers were
determined with this one battle.
**[19:42] nar**
Not just the North and the South,
**[19:44] nar**
but all the other leaders from Sado, as well,
surrendered to Uesugi, one after another.
**[19:50] nar**
The head of the South's army, Honma Takasue,
**[19:54] nar**
ran back to Hamochi Castle after his defeat.
**[19:57] nar**
And when the Chief Advisor's
messenger arrived,
**[20:02] nar**
everything was done.
**[20:06] messenger**
I-Impossi—
**[20:33] kane**
We would not have been able to win this
battle without your help, Seion-dono.
**[20:39] seion**
No, it is was all Buddha's guidance.
**[20:43] kane**
Now that you've survived, what do
you wish of the promise you made?
**[20:57] seion**
Yes. I would like to bring
a red-light district to this land...
**[21:01] seion**
And I would like to run it.
**[21:03] kane**
Wh-What?
**[21:06] seion**
After this, there will be many men
who will come here looking for gold.
**[21:13] seion**
And from that,
**[21:14] seion**
a world of suffering for women called
the red light district will be born.
**[21:19] kane**
Are you saying you will protect these women
by becoming the master of this world of suffering?
**[21:25] seion**
I have seen many forms
of righteousness in this land.
**[21:29] seion**
First, the righteousness as a samurai that you
and the others have shown, Kanetsugu-sama.
**[21:33] seion**
Another form was the farmers' righteousness
to protect their families and village.
**[21:37] seion**
Everyone had their own righteousness.
**[21:41] seion**
Therefore, if we can save other women
who are enduring a life of prostitution,
**[21:46] seion**
that is the righteousness of us,
who serve Buddha.
**[22:04] kane**
If that is, indeed, righteousness,
then there is no other choice.
***SIGN*** Episode 6 Uesugi's Righteousness
**[23:40] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou: Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:44] kane**
Episode 6
"Uesugi's Righteousness."
**[23:47] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 6 - Uesugi's Righteousness
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**[00:04] keiji**
Take this!
**[00:11] kane**
The winners and losers
have been determined in this battle.
**[00:15] kane**
Consequently, there is no need
for anymore pointless bloodshed.
**[00:19] kane**
Let those, both North and South,
**[00:21] kane**
who pledge allegiance
to the Uesugi clan, surrender now!
**[00:24] kane**
However, if there are
still those who oppose...
**[00:27] kane**
I, Naoe Kanetsugu...
**[00:30] keiji**
And I, Maeda Keiji...
**[00:32] both**
Shall become fierce dragons
and confront you with righteousness!
**[00:54] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[01:00] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[01:04] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** Uesugi's Righteousness
**[02:31] hide**
Curse that Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[02:33] hide**
He was able to conquer Sado
with unbelievable speed.
**[02:38] uncle**
Our messenger was of no use, as well.
**[02:46] hide**
At this rate, there's nowhere
I can go to overpower Uesugi!
**[02:49] hide**
Taking over Echigo will
have to wait for another time!
**[02:54] uncle**
I-It's truly unbelievable that
Uesugi was able to move this fast.
**[02:58] uncle**
Let's see. How shall we...
**[03:03] hide**
I heard that they were able
to achieve this unbelievable speed
**[03:06] hide**
because of Maeda Keiji...
**[03:13] hide**
He is...
**[03:16] hide**
your nephew, isn't he?
**[03:19] uncle**
* That fool! Throwing dirt*
* in my face like this...*
**[03:26] hide**
Naoe Kanetsugu and Maeda Keiji...
**[03:29] hide**
How I'd love for them to work for me.
**[03:32] uncle**
Wh-What? I-It's still early
to speak so highly of those two.
**[03:39] uncle**
The Honma clan of North Sado still remains.
**[03:44] uncle**
I'm sure as soon as the Uesugi clan leaves,
**[03:46] uncle**
they will be back to quarreling,
and Sado will be back in turmoil.
**[03:51] hide**
No. It's pointless to hope for such.
**[03:54] uncle**
Huh?
**[03:57] hide**
As long as Naoe Kanetsugu exists,
he won't leave Sado alone.
**[04:04] uncle**
Well, then... I'm looking forward
to what punishment may come.
**[04:27] kane**
They are men from
the Hamochi-Honma clan.
**[04:30] kane**
They were spotted as they
escaped to Echigo by boat,
**[04:34] kane**
and their heads were taken there.
**[04:39] keiji**
Why did they go to Echigo?
**[04:41] kane**
The Hamochi-Honma clan have some
territory in Kashiwazaki of Echigo...
**[04:46] kane**
I'm assuming they were planning
to make their recovery there.
**[04:50] keiji**
I see...
**[04:53] keiji**
Then these men ended up
being rather brave.
**[04:55] kane**
Indeed.
**[04:57] kane**
They risked their lives for
the righteousness they believed in.
**[05:00] keiji**
Then there's the Kawarada clan
that is a nuisance.
**[05:05] seion**
Indeed.
**[05:07] seion**
They have no righteousness.
**[05:15] keiji**
What do you want to do?
**[05:21] kane**
If we do not show them
the Uesugi's righteousness,
**[05:24] kane**
this battle in Sado will not end.
**[05:33] fat**
There, there.
**[05:41] fat**
There, there.
**[05:44] fat**
You and you, a job well done!
**[05:48] fat**
Everyone, a job well done!
**[05:51] fat**
All of you, drink to your
heart's content tonight!
**[05:54] men**
Yeah!
**[06:00] kage**
As soon as we invited them over
for some victory sake,
**[06:03] kage**
they brought their whole clan.
**[06:06] fuji**
For crying out loud...
**[06:07] fuji**
A drastic change from when they had
no intention of fighting in battle.
**[06:10] kage**
Look at Takatsuna's face...
**[06:14] kage**
It's as if he thinks that he's the one
who actually won the battle.
**[06:24] mosuke**
Good grief.
**[06:25] fat bg**
Come on! Next, next! Hurry it up!
**[06:27] mosuke**
Things are gonna get dangerous soon.
**[06:41] mosuke**
Told you...
**[06:47] mosuke**
Here you go.
**[06:49] keiji**
Uesugi's righteousness, eh?
**[07:20] kane**
Let us start with a cup.
**[07:22] fat**
Well...
**[07:24] fat**
Uesugi's chief retainer himself
is going to pour for me?
**[07:31] mosuke**
Come on! Just accept the drink already.
**[07:36] fat**
I see...
**[07:37] fat**
So you're praising us for
our achievements with a drink...
**[07:43] fat**
But that is not right...
**[07:49] fat**
That role should be filled
by Kagekatsu-dono.
**[07:54] fat**
To begin with, the Honma clan and the Uesugi clan are of equal rank.
**[07:57] fat**
You should know that Kenshin-dono's father,
Tamekage-dono, lost in the battle in Echigo
**[08:02] fat**
and then relied on us
when he escaped to Sado.
**[08:07] fat**
If we hadn't protected him,
there would be no Uesugi...
**[08:11] fat**
or should I say, Nagao, since that's what
he was before you were an Uesugi.
**[08:31] fuji**
Curse him...
**[08:33] kage**
Wait.
**[08:34] fuji**
But Naoe-dono...
**[08:37] fat**
The former leader of the clan,
Uesugi Kenshin, knew that very well.
**[08:47] kane**
Are you drunk, Takatsuna?
**[09:15] fat**
What?!
**[09:20] fat**
Wh-What...
**[09:27] fat**
I-It can't be...
**[09:29] fat**
Kenshin?!
**[09:32] ken**
For a samurai...
**[09:35] ken**
For a samurai, their fief
is borrowed from the people.
**[09:38] ken**
People of the fief are a treasure.
**[09:41] ken**
However,
**[09:42] ken**
you don't love your own people.
**[09:45] ken**
Instead, you mercilessly
kill them for your own desires.
**[09:50] ken**
Those are the acts of a villain.
**[09:52] fat**
Nah...
**[09:55] ken**
Have you forgotten...
**[09:57] ken**
that we fight under
the flag of righteousness.
**[10:12] fat**
You... can't be...
**[10:16] fat**
Lord Kenshin's...
**[10:24] kane**
Ask him yourself...
**[10:27] kane**
in the afterlife!
**[11:08] kane**
If anyone has any objections,
take up your sword!
**[11:12] kane**
If it's war you want, then go back
to your territory and prepare for one!
**[11:18] kane**
I, Naoe Kanetsugu,
will gladly take you on!
**[11:35] fuji**
Amazing...
**[11:36] kage**
That is Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[11:45] keiji**
This is...
**[11:49] keiji**
Uesugi's righteousness!
**[11:53] kane**
Sado shall now be punished
by the righteousness of Uesugi!
**[11:59] keiji**
And then an order was placed
in various places around Sado,
**[12:03] keiji**
banning any violence and rioting.
**[12:07] keiji**
By Kagekatsu-sama's orders,
**[12:09] keiji**
Naoe Kanetsugu-dono, you were put
in charge of ruling over Sado.
**[12:15] kane**
Yes.
**[12:16] kane**
Because you helped as well,
the uprising in Sado eventually disappeared,
**[12:21] kane**
and we were able to break through
Hideyoshi's plan to take over Echigo.
**[12:25] keiji**
But the world is filled with irony.
**[12:30] keiji**
To think that another troublesome event
would happen as soon as that one ended.
**[12:39] kane**
Indeed! There was another event
that would affect the fate of the Uesugi clan.
**[12:45] keiji**
And that was when I saw your form as
the shadow, just like the moon is to the sun.
**[13:30] kane**
What a sad sight.
**[13:36] kane**
It appears that mother
lost her husband in this war.
**[13:44] keiji**
In her prayers, she is swearing
that she will protect the children.
**[13:52] kane**
Keiji-dono, can you read lips?
**[13:57] keiji**
Well, I *do* come from the Koga clan.
**[14:00] keiji**
That skill does come in handy during battle.
**[14:06] keiji**
Actually...
**[14:13] keiji**
It's a nuisance at times, as well.
**[14:17] keiji**
Right before Honma Takatsuna died,
**[14:21] keiji**
I'm sure I heard him call you Kenshin...
**[14:31] keiji**
Goodness.
**[14:33] keiji**
I'd never thought of being from the Koga
clan as a nuisance until that moment.
**[14:39] kane**
No, that was my carelessness.
**[14:43] kane**
I apologize.
**[14:47] kane**
But... everything started
on that snowy day.
**[14:53] kane**
It was impossible for
the Uesugi clan to avoid it.
**[15:14] voice**
Did you hear what was just said?
**[15:26] kage**
Forgive me... but this is for Echigo.
**[15:38] kane**
At first glance, it could be said that
Naoe Kagetsuna-dono had gone mad,
**[15:42] kane**
but his sword was, indeed,
acting for the sake of Echigo.
**[15:50] kane**
And the one who saw it all...
**[16:00] kane**
Was the previous Chief Advisor,
Konoe Sakihisa,
**[16:03] kane**
And the baby of his
younger sister, Princess Tae.
**[16:09] kane**
But the identity of that child,
as well as that baby's father
**[16:13] kane**
was a secret among secrets of the Uesugi.
**[16:17] kane**
I had no way of knowing myself.
**[16:24] kane**
Not until I held that fan in my hand.
**[16:36] kane**
Higuchi Yoroku... at your service.
**[16:41] kane**
I will never forget that...
**[16:43] kane**
It was when I was still sixteen
and called Higuchi Yoroku.
**[16:49] kane**
While in Kyoto, I was summoned
and given that fan by none other than...
***SIGN*** Oda Nobunaga
**[16:56] kane**
Oda Nobunaga.
**[17:08] kane**
Pardon.
**[17:28] nobu**
How about it,
**[17:29] nobu**
Shindou?
**[17:30] shin**
Y-Yes...
**[17:34] shin**
Without a doubt.
**[17:38] kane**
* Why... Why does he cry*
* when he sees my face?*
**[17:48] nobu**
Those tears can't be helped.
**[17:52] nobu**
Higuchi Yoroku!
I shall give that fan to you!
**[17:56] nobu**
Take it with you to Echigo.
**[17:59] kane**
Thank you, I am honor—
**[18:00] nobu**
Take good care of it.
**[18:03] nobu**
That is a keepsake of your mother's.
**[18:06] kane**
My mother's?
**[18:10] nobu**
That's right. The younger sister of the
former Chief Advisor, Konoe Sakihisa,
**[18:15] nobu**
Princess Tae, is your mother.
**[18:18] kane**
Wh-What are you saying?
My mother is of the Higuchi clan...
**[18:24] shin**
No. Sixteen years ago,
**[18:27] shin**
I personally took you from Kyoto
and brought you to Echigo...
**[18:35] kane**
B-But...
**[18:38] nobu**
Do you not believe me?
**[18:40] kane**
Indeed...
**[18:41] nobu**
Then quickly go back to Echigo...
**[18:44] nobu**
and ask for yourself...
who your real father is.
**[18:48] kane**
M-My real father?
**[18:52] nobu**
It's been a pleasure.
**[19:06] nobu**
* Yoroku, that fan will guide you*
* to your true father...*
**[19:12] nobu**
* but at the same time,*
* it will cause tears in Echigo.*
**[19:17] nobu**
*Indeed. Tears of destruction.*
**[19:38] shin**
Princess Tae!
**[19:53] kane**
Shindou-dono.
**[19:56] kane**
Who is this "real father" he spoke of?
**[19:58] shin**
I...
**[20:01] shin**
cannot say myself...
**[20:04] shin**
If I do, I will end up destroying a country.
**[20:08] kane**
It's that severe?
**[20:09] shin**
No. That's how much
of a man is behind this.
**[20:15] kane**
Destroying a country...
**[20:18] kane**
When I heard that, I thought maybe...
**[20:22] keiji**
Indeed.
**[20:24] keiji**
At the time, the loyalty in relationships
between daimyos and their retainers was vague.
**[20:30] keiji**
Despite being retainers,
**[20:31] keiji**
they, themselves, were guardians
of their own territory for generations.
**[20:37] keiji**
If they were not able
to protect their territory,
**[20:40] keiji**
they threw away their masters.
**[20:43] kane**
And the people of Echigo were
very passionate about their territory.
**[20:50] keiji**
Because of that, even Lord Kenshin
had to become a god.
**[20:55] keiji**
Swearing a lifetime of celibacy,
becoming the avatar of Bishamonten,
**[20:59] keiji**
he became a god of war,
winning every one of his battles,
**[21:02] keiji**
and his retainers finally swore
loyalty to him because of this.
**[21:11] keiji**
That's where Nobunaga found an opening.
**[21:16] voice**
Those powerful enough
to take over a country...
**[21:20] voice**
Are all villains.
**[21:40] keiji**
Th-This is...
**[21:43] voice**
That fan was enough
to make even a god a man.
**[21:47] voice**
That is because Higuchi Yoroku...
no, Naoe Kanetsugu,
**[21:53] voice**
you are the illegitimate child
of Uesugi Kenshin!
***SIGN*** Episode 7 The Truth Spoken to the Moon
**[23:41] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou: Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:44] kane**
Episode 7
"The Truth Spoken to the Moon."
**[23:49] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 7 - The Truth Spoken to the Moon
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**[00:00] kane**
Shindou-dono.
**[00:02] kane**
Who is this "real father" he spoke of?
**[00:04] shin**
I cannot say myself...
**[00:09] shin**
If I do, I will end up destroying a country.
**[00:13] kane**
It's that severe?
**[00:14] shin**
No. That's how much
of a man is behind this.
**[00:19] keiji**
At the time, the loyalty in relationships
**[00:22] keiji**
between daimyos and
their retainers was vague.
**[00:26] keiji**
Despite being retainers,
**[00:28] keiji**
they, themselves, were guardians
of their own territory for generations.
**[00:34] keiji**
If they were not able
to protect their territory,
**[00:36] keiji**
they threw away their masters.
**[00:40] kane**
And the people of Echigo were
very passionate about their territory.
**[00:47] keiji**
Because of that, even Lord Kenshin
had to become a god.
**[00:51] keiji**
Swearing a lifetime of celibacy,
becoming the avatar of Bishamonten,
**[00:56] keiji**
he became a god of war,
winning every one of his battles,
**[00:59] keiji**
and his retainers finally swore
loyalty to him because of this.
**[01:08] keiji**
That's where Nobunaga found an opening.
**[01:12] nobu**
Those powerful enough
to take over a country...
**[01:16] nobu**
Are all villains.
**[01:35] nobu**
Th-This is...
**[01:39] nobu**
That fan was enough
to make even a god a man.
**[01:42] nobu**
That is because Higuchi Yoroku...
no, Naoe Kanetsugu,
**[01:47] nobu**
you are the illegitimate child
of Uesugi Kenshin!
**[02:06] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[02:12] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[02:16] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** The Truth Spoken to the Moon
**[03:41] keiji**
Well, well...
**[03:43] keiji**
To think that Nobunaga-dono
would make an appearance.
**[03:47] kane**
It appears a rather troublesome
person has shown up.
**[03:51] nobu**
I'm going to butt in for a while.
**[03:54] nobu**
Because there's something I can't come
to terms with on that situation, as well.
**[03:59] kane**
You mean the fact that
I'm still alive and well, even now?
**[04:06] nobu**
Indeed.
**[04:07] nobu**
It's true that you brought
the fan back to Echigo...
**[04:11] nobu**
So why did Echigo not fall?
**[04:14] nobu**
Why didn't Kenshin fall back
to being just a man?
**[04:17] kane**
That's...
**[04:20] kane**
Because I was a child of righteousness.
**[04:23] nobu**
Righteousness?
**[04:25] kane**
Yes.
***SIGN*** Yoroku (Kanetsugu's Father)
Higuchi Souemon
**[04:43] sou**
I finally got it.
**[04:45] kane**
Father.
**[04:49] sou**
Ah... Well, if it isn't Yoroku.
When did you arrive back in Echigo?
**[04:55] kane**
I have something I'd like to ask you.
**[05:03] sou**
What's this?
**[05:03] kane**
It belonged to Princess Tae, the younger
sister of the former Chief Advisor.
**[05:10] sou**
Wh-What?
**[05:15] sou**
Yo-Yoroku...
**[05:20] kane**
As soon as I got back to Echigo,
**[05:22] kane**
I first went to my father,
Higuchi Souemon.
**[05:26] nobu**
I see.
**[05:28] nobu**
So you confirmed who your real father was
**[05:31] nobu**
and were prepared to die for Echigo?
**[05:35] kane**
Yes.
**[05:37] kane**
But before that, there was
something else I wanted to confirm,
**[05:41] kane**
so I went to see Lord Kenshin's
older sister, Sentouin.
***SIGN*** Rinsenji
***SIGN*** Sentouin
**[05:48] sen**
What? Yoroku had
an audience with Nobunaga?
**[05:51] sou**
Yes.
**[05:52] sou**
And the steward of the Konoe clan,
Shindou-dono, was present, as well.
**[05:58] sen**
What?
**[06:03] sen**
What is that?
**[06:04] sou**
Nobunaga gave this to Yoroku.
**[06:07] sou**
It appears to be
a keepsake of Princess Tae.
**[06:10] sen**
P-Princess Tae?!
**[06:22] sen**
Y-Yoroku...
**[06:25] sen**
What are you wearing?
**[06:28] kane**
It's no fun merely falling
into Nobunaga's trap.
**[06:36] kane**
Now that I've heard
what needed to be said,
**[06:40] kane**
I'll be waiting for him in the afterlife.
**[06:46] kane**
I'll let Nobunaga kiss my ass.
**[06:49] kane**
Take that!
**[06:52] sou**
Wh-What...
**[06:54] sou**
You drew the Oda family crest on your ass?
**[06:58] sen**
Oh, my.
**[06:59] kane**
Eat this!
**[07:01] sou**
Y-Yoroku! Stop, you fool!
**[07:07] sen**
You eccentric.
**[07:10] sou**
For crying out loud.
**[07:14] kane**
Sentouin-sama.
**[07:17] kane**
My father is Higuchi Souemon,
without a doubt.
**[07:23] sou**
Yoroku...
**[07:25] kane**
Therefore, I would like to know
exactly how I became Souemon's child.
**[07:35] sen**
All right...
**[07:37] sen**
Since you have that resolve, I shall tell you.
**[07:47] sen**
The leader of the Naoe clan
at that time, Kagetsuna-dono,
**[07:52] sen**
had welcomed the Chief Advisor,
Lord Konoe Sakihisa.
**[07:56] kono**
With my power as the Chief Advisor,
and Kagetora-dono's military might,
**[08:01] kono**
we should be able to conquer
the Kanto area fairly easily.
**[08:03] kono**
Then, we'll conquer
the territories around Kyoto.
**[08:06] kono**
We shall return the Muromachi
Shogunate to how it once was.
**[08:10] kono**
That is what Kagetora-dono
and I aspire to do.
**[08:13] kage**
Yes, and that is why you established
a blood oath with my lord.
**[08:19] kono**
But it turns out...
**[08:21] kono**
I now have considerably
stronger proof of that promise.
**[08:33] kage**
A baby?
**[08:35] kono**
This baby was born from Kagetora-dono
and Tae, my late younger sister.
**[08:43] kage**
Wh-What?!
**[08:45] kono**
This is the true proof of my blood oath.
**[08:49] kage**
*Th-That's impossible...*
**[08:53] kono**
There we go.
**[08:55] kono**
There, there.
**[09:00] kono**
You look just like
Kagetora-dono, don't you?
**[09:05] kono**
There...
**[09:23] kage**
Did you hear what was just said?
**[09:36] kage**
Forgive me... but this is for Echigo.
**[09:57] kage**
In Echigo...
**[09:59] kage**
even the retainers believe Kagetora-sama
is the avatar of Bishamonten.
**[10:05] kage**
Because of that, our hearts are as one.
**[10:12] kage**
And you're saying that despite his oath
of celibacy to the gods and Buddha,
**[10:16] kage**
he had a child with the younger sister
of the Chief Advisor in the shadows...
**[10:22] kono**
What are you saying I should do then?
**[10:24] kage**
If a war were to start in Echigo,
**[10:27] kage**
the dream that you share with
Kagetora-sama will never come to pass!
**[10:34] kage**
I, Naoe Kagetsuna, shall take that baby.
**[10:42] sen**
After I heard what had
happened from Kagetsuna,
**[10:48] sen**
I ended up relying on Souemon,
**[10:51] sen**
as he is who I was closest with and
so could be trusted with this secret.
**[10:59] sou**
We are stationed here
in the mountains year-round,
**[11:03] sou**
therefore, no one would be suspicious
if we suddenly had a baby.
**[11:13] sou**
Very well. I, Higuchi Souemon,
shall guard this child with my life.
**[11:26] kane**
But in that case, I should have
just been abandoned...
**[11:30] kane**
No... I should have been killed.
**[11:33] kane**
Then Nobunaga wouldn't be taking advantage
of this situation in his quest for Echigo.
**[11:41] sen**
Do you think that Omijou-sama
**[11:42] sen**
swore an oath of celibacy
because he wanted to?
**[11:46] kane**
W-Well...
**[11:49] sen**
For Echigo, he had no children.
**[11:51] sen**
He didn't know about
the happiness of normal people,
**[11:53] sen**
and was left to carry
everything upon his shoulders.
**[11:56] sen**
Why would I let the child
of my younger brother be abandoned?
**[12:06] kane**
S-Sentouin-sama...
**[12:12] sen**
If I were to abandon you,
**[12:14] sen**
though the people may forgive me,
the heavens would not.
**[12:17] sen**
This was the righteousness of myself,
Kagetsuna, and Souemon.
**[12:25] kane**
So, you're saying that the reason I lived
was because of righteousness?
**[12:31] sen**
Indeed.
**[12:34] sen**
You are the child of our righteousness.
**[12:45] kane**
I am the child...
**[12:47] kane**
of your righteousness.
**[12:55] nobu**
I see.
**[12:57] nobu**
So you were spared
because of righteousness.
**[13:02] nobu**
But that can't be the only reason
**[13:04] nobu**
you were able to protect
Echigo from my plans.
**[13:08] kane**
Indeed.
**[13:10] kane**
And then I went to meet
Lord Kenshin for the first time...
**[13:16] sen**
Now, Yoroku, go to the battlefield...
**[13:20] sen**
And meet Omijou-sama.
**[13:23] sen**
There, you should be able to discover
what you should do with regards to that fan.
**[13:59] kane**
Omijou-sama!
**[14:01] ken**
Yoroku...
**[14:03] ken**
Come admire the moon with me.
**[14:13] nobu**
And?
**[14:14] nobu**
Don't tell me that you suddenly wanted
to live after drinking with Kenshin.
**[14:19] kane**
No...
**[14:21] kane**
But on that night,
**[14:22] kane**
I had learned from Lord Kenshin
where it is that I should die.
**[14:27] nobu**
Where you should die?
**[14:30] kane**
Yes, for that is the
righteousness of Uesugi.
**[14:35] ken**
Yoroku!
**[14:36] ken**
If you are a samurai, do not cut open
your belly without fighting.
**[14:41] ken**
Die on the battlefield!
**[14:43] nobu**
So...
**[14:44] nobu**
he told you to die on the battlefield.
**[14:47] kane**
Yes.
**[14:48] kane**
Those words from Lord Kenshin
lived on among the Uesugi clan,
**[14:52] kane**
even while we were in Sado.
**[15:09] kane**
Fujita-dono... What is it?
**[15:16] fuji**
It seems that the Honma clan
**[15:19] fuji**
are fussing about the fact that Takatsuna
called you Kenshin back there.
**[15:24] kane**
What of it?
**[15:29] fuji**
Before I came to serve the Uesugi clan,
**[15:32] fuji**
there were suspicions,
among the Takeda clan...
**[15:35] fuji**
that you may be
the orphan of Lord Kenshin.
**[15:39] kane**
Such suspicions...
**[15:43] fuji**
Do not underestimate
the shinobi of the Takeda clan.
**[15:47] kane**
Then, did you come to strike me down?
**[15:49] fuji**
If... it is true.
**[15:54] fuji**
If Echigo is a two-headed dragon,
**[15:57] fuji**
then it will eventually tear itself apart!
**[16:02] nobu**
As expected...
**[16:04] nobu**
you were a danger
for the Uesugi clan...
**[16:08] kane**
Yes. But Fujita-dono's words
couldn't be helped.
**[16:13] keiji**
Indeed. In the end, he was
just speaking for Echigo,
**[16:17] keiji**
and feared that the province
would be split in two.
**[16:20] kane**
Two years later, in June of 1578,
after Lord Kenshin died,
**[16:26] kane**
his adopted son from the
Hojo clan, Uesugi Kagetora,
**[16:30] kane**
and his adopted son from the
Ueda Nagao clan, Uesugi Kagekatsu-sama,
**[16:34] kane**
fought for command.
***SIGN*** Otate Castle
***SIGN*** Kasaugayama Castle
**[16:37] keiji**
Because of that, the Uesugi clan
was split in two and fought...
**[16:43] keiji**
Otherwise known as the Siege of Otate.
**[16:53] keiji**
In the end, Kagekatsu-dono had won,
**[16:56] keiji**
but it took three whole years
for the siege to completely end.
**[17:02] kane**
Because of that, they could not let
the same thing repeat itself ever again...
**[17:08] kane**
And that's where Keiji-dono's
cleverness came in.
**[17:23] kane**
Milord.
**[17:33] keiji**
I've invited Kagekatsu-dono.
**[17:39] nobu**
And?
**[17:40] kane**
When he was young,
**[17:42] kane**
Kagekatsu-sama was told about
my background by Sentouin-sama.
**[17:48] kane**
And...
**[17:51] kage**
Omijou-sama's child, Higuchi Yoroku,
and I will form a bond to protect Echigo!
**[17:59] nobu**
A bond?
**[18:00] kane**
Yes... Because of that...
**[18:04] kage**
I've heard the situation.
**[18:12] kage**
You'll just have to find out if Kanetsugu is,
or is not, the child of Lord Kenshin
**[18:18] kage**
by asking him yourself in the afterlife!
**[18:23] kage**
The only one who knows
that answer is Lord Kenshin himself!
**[18:36] kage**
But then...
**[18:37] kage**
Lord Kenshin will be angry.
**[18:40] fuji**
What?
**[18:41] kage**
If you are a man of war,
die on the battlefield.
**[18:48] ken**
*Yoroku!*
**[18:49] ken**
* If you are a samurai, do not cut open*
* your belly without fighting.*
**[18:53] ken**
* If you are a man of war,*
* die on the battlefield.*
**[19:05] fuji**
That is, indeed, Uesugi's righteousness.
**[19:10] nobu**
I see...
**[19:13] nobu**
Die on the battlefield, huh?
**[19:17] nobu**
But there is still something
that I don't understand.
**[19:19] kane**
What might that be?
**[19:21] nobu**
That folding fan.
**[19:23] nobu**
You took that fan with you
and met with Kenshin.
**[19:26] nobu**
So why did my plan not work?
**[19:30] kane**
Because on that night...
**[19:34] ken**
Behold, Yoroku, that moon...
**[19:38] ken**
At first glance, it looks beautiful,
**[19:40] ken**
but if the night sky only had
the moon alone, it would be dull.
**[19:43] ken**
It is because of the clouds the moon
shines upon that gives it its elegance.
**[19:48] kane**
But...
**[19:50] kane**
If the clouds get in the way
of the moonlight,
**[19:53] kane**
there is only darkness.
**[19:55] kane**
No elegance or anything else.
**[20:11] kane**
Omijou-sama, do you remember
this folding fan?
**[20:16] ken**
There is no way I can forget it.
**[20:19] ken**
That folding fan belonged
to Princess Tae...
**[20:22] ken**
And...
**[20:23] kane**
And?
**[20:27] ken**
It is the fan of the woman I loved the most.
**[20:33] kane**
Omijou-sama...
**[20:39] nobu**
What? So Kenshin actually laughed...
**[20:43] kane**
Indeed. It was very innocent laughter,
**[20:46] kane**
that felt like he had gotten
something off of his chest.
**[20:50] nobu**
I see. I guess that would
make it rather hard to die.
**[21:03] nobu**
Good heavens! Good heavens!
**[21:11] nobu**
I am now satisfied.
**[21:26] keiji**
So he left.
**[21:28] kane**
For crying out loud... How selfish.
**[21:33] kane**
But...
**[21:34] kane**
You really saved me back then.
**[21:37] keiji**
But I had seen the truth concerning you,
**[21:41] keiji**
so there was no point
in going to the afterlife.
**[21:45] keiji**
Without a doubt, at that moment,
**[22:03] keiji**
Bishamonten was standing
upon your back.
***SIGN*** Episode 8 The Wind of the Men of War
**[23:41] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:45] kane**
Episode 8
"The Wind of the Men of War."
**[23:49] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 8 - The Wind of the Men of War
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G6NQJ2ZZ6/gifu-dodo-kanetsugu-and-keiji)
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**[00:07] Toshi**
Haaa...
**[00:17] toshi**
Wh-Wh-Wha...
**[00:22] toshi**
Wh-What did you just say?!
**[00:25] hide**
What a wonderful cup, isn't it, Mitsunari?
***SIGN*** Ishida Mitsunari
**[00:31] san**
Yes, sir.
**[00:33] toshi**
S-So... um... uh...
**[00:38] hide**
What? I said, Keiji...
**[00:41] hide**
I want to meet with Maeda Keiji.
**[00:44] hide**
I heard he did an excellent
job fighting in Sado.
**[00:49] hide**
Then I'll just have to hear
his tales of battle.
**[00:53] toshi**
Please wait. He's quite the eccentric...
**[00:56] hide**
Yes, exactly.
I'd like to see that eccentricity.
**[01:01] hide**
That's exactly what I want to see.
**[01:07] toshi**
No, no, no. Who knows what
he'll do to you, Milord!
**[01:11] toshi**
W-W-W-With a man like that...
**[01:13] toshi**
Not to mention, he has
absconded from the Maeda clan.
**[01:17] hide**
That's why I won't ask you.
**[01:22] toshi**
Huh?
**[01:23] hide**
Uesugi Kagekatsu will be
just fine as the middleman.
**[01:29] toshi**
*Th-Thank goodness...*
**[01:36] toshi**
What a wonderful idea.
**[01:56] nar**
The character "gi" (righteousness),
combines "oneself" with "sheep."
**[02:00] nar**
"Sheep" is the same as "beauty."
**[02:04] nar**
Therefore, "gi" means
"to make yourself beautiful."
**[02:08] nar**
I repeat.
**[02:10] nar**
"Gi" truly means
"For one to live beautifully."
**[02:21] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[02:27] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[02:31] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** The Wind of the Men of War
**[03:56] keiji**
For crying out loud...
**[03:58] keiji**
I was pretty fed up with the tenacity
of the Chief Advisor Hideyoshi at the time.
**[04:05] keiji**
To think he tried to use me
to conquer Echigo
**[04:08] keiji**
because he couldn't get his hands
on Uesugi by himself.
**[04:12] kane**
Right after the conquering of Sado,
**[04:14] kane**
I had finally been able
to relax for a while.
**[04:17] kane**
It was pretty frustrating.
**[04:22] kane**
That was, indeed, a life-or-death
situation for the Uesugi.
**[04:27] keiji**
However, the one who lent a helping
hand throughout that dilemma was...
**[04:35] kane**
Ishida Mitsunari!
**[04:41] kane**
After that, he would become my brother,
**[04:44] kane**
He was a man who lived
in loyalty and devotion.
**[05:05] mosuke**
Sir... Where are we going
in these mountains?
**[05:11] kane**
Because we have been gone
for a while due to the dealings in Sado,
**[05:15] kane**
I want to see, with my own eyes,
how the land and people are doing
**[05:20] kane**
and if anything has changed.
**[05:22] mosuke**
Huh?
**[05:24] mosuke**
There's no way something would
change in mountains like this.
**[05:27] kane**
Stop complaining.
**[05:29] kane**
We still have to look around
three other mountains.
**[05:36] mosuke**
Ow... Why did you stop
all of a sudden?
**[05:46] mosuke**
Wow...
**[05:56] mosuke**
In mountains like these...
**[05:59] mosuke**
that's rather different.
**[06:06] mosuke**
What the heck?
**[06:07] mosuke**
Is this a tea room?
**[06:18] mosuke**
Eh, he seems to be calling us, sir.
**[06:22] person**
This must also be some kind of fate.
**[06:24] person**
I shall serve you some tea.
**[06:26] mosuke**
Huh? Tea? Why in a place like this...
**[06:30] kane**
Why not?
**[06:33] kane**
I will accept your offer.
**[06:35] mosuke**
Huh?
**[06:47] mosuke**
It's hot! Jeez...
**[06:50] mosuke**
we've been walking around the mountains,
so water would have been fine.
**[06:55] kane**
You're... not a monk.
**[06:59] guy**
Oh?
**[07:01] kane**
The cut of that bamboo
is the work of a skilled swordsman.
**[07:06] kane**
A skill not needed for a monk.
**[07:09] guy**
A good observation.
**[07:12] guy**
However, to take the tea kettle
and put your sword down
**[07:16] guy**
was rather careless of you.
**[07:22] kane**
What?
**[07:23] kane**
He was able to get
this much air while still sitting?
**[07:26] guy**
The art of Fusegi.
**[07:28] guy**
This is one of the ninja arts we,
the shinobi of Tanba, possess.
**[07:55] guy**
You've become old, Jirobo.
**[08:00] kane**
You know each other?
**[08:02] jiro**
There's no shinobi who doesn't know him.
***SIGN*** Ayatachi Michimune
**[08:06] jiro**
Ayatachi Michimune...
**[08:08] jiro**
leader of the mountain people
**[08:10] jiro**
and head of the Tanba ninja clan.
**[08:13] mosuke**
What?!
**[08:15] jiro**
And he is a ninja employed
by the Chief Advisor Hideyoshi.
**[08:21] michi**
You've said enough.
**[08:35] nar**
At that moment, Michimune was shocked.
**[08:39] nar**
He had made a careless mistake.
**[08:42] nar**
He thought Kanetsugu was unarmed,
but he had a steel fan behind his back.
**[08:49] nar**
But the two were at a critical distance.
**[08:52] nar**
Therefore...
**[08:55] nar**
Running...
**[08:59] nar**
or attacking...
**[09:04] nar**
Only death awaited them either way.
**[09:27] michi**
At this rate, I'd have no face
to show Mitsunari-dono.
**[09:32] kane**
Ishida Mitsunari-dono?
**[09:34] michi**
Yes...
**[09:36] michi**
He asked me to give you this today.
**[10:12] kane**
His Highness wants Keiji-dono and I
**[10:14] kane**
to personally give him a report
on the battle of Sado?
**[10:18] michi**
Indeed. It's just as the letter
from Ishida Mitsunari-dono says.
**[10:24] kane**
And he says that he'd like
to see Keiji-dono's eccentricity.
**[10:32] kane**
Keiji-dono's eccentricity
**[10:35] kane**
is neither an exhibition nor an act.
**[10:37] kane**
It's how he lives his life.
**[10:41] kane**
And asking him just to display it...
**[10:44] michi**
But he cannot decline,
**[10:46] michi**
as a request from the man who rules
the country is the same as an order.
**[10:56] nar**
The two of them were well aware,
**[10:59] nar**
that Keiji would never agree to this.
**[11:01] nar**
Not only that,
**[11:04] nar**
Keiji would, without a doubt,
choose to defy and disobey Hideyoshi.
**[11:08] nar**
That was the kind of eccentric he was.
**[11:14] kane**
That would mean killing Keiji-dono.
**[11:19] michi**
That is why Mitsunari-dono
gave you that letter.
**[11:26] michi**
That official report will soon be taken to
Uesugi Kagekatsu-dono by a messenger.
**[11:33] kane**
To my lord?
**[11:35] michi**
Meaning that it would end up being
an official order to the Uesugi.
**[11:40] michi**
Meaning this is the only time you'll be
able to take care of this quietly.
**[11:46] nar**
Kanetsugu realized
the truth behind the letter.
**[11:50] nar**
Mitsunari had given them fair warning,
**[11:54] nar**
that Keiji could be
life-threatening to the Uesugi.
**[12:16] kage**
Chief Advisor Hideyoshi!
**[12:20] kage**
He's still trying to get his hands on Echigo?
**[12:23] kane**
It appears that Hideyoshi-dono
still holds a grudge.
**[12:29] kage**
You mean from...
**[12:32] kane**
Yes, sir.
**[12:34] kane**
That was when the Uesugi and Hashiba
were still enemies of enemies.
**[12:41] keiji**
You and Kagekatsu-dono
**[12:44] keiji**
went to Ochirimizu Castle
and met with Hideyoshi
**[12:48] keiji**
to try to strike a deal
to take care of Sassa Narimasa.
**[12:57] kane**
It was then...
**[12:59] kane**
That Hideyoshi had thought to make me
an immediate follower of him,
**[13:03] kane**
and announced that fact.
**[13:06] hide**
I would like to have Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[13:12] keiji**
At the time, Hideyoshi had
100,000 soldiers at his back.
**[13:17] kane**
One little mistake could have made
those soldiers head straight to Echigo.
**[13:24] keiji**
And yet, Uesugi...
**[13:34] hide**
Kagekatsu-dono, you refuse,
even though I ask this much?
**[13:41] hide**
Then the only thing that awaits Echigo—
**[13:49] kane**
What to do...
**[13:52] hide**
What do you mean?
**[13:54] kane**
I love my lord.
**[13:57] hide**
So?
**[13:59] kane**
Because of that, I made a promise to him
**[14:01] kane**
that we would become a bond for Echigo.
**[14:11] hide**
And?!
**[14:25] hide**
* Is he saying that if I want to kill him,*
* that I should just do so?*
**[14:31] hide**
Why?
**[14:33] kane**
I cannot break my promise.
**[14:36] kane**
That is what my love means.
**[14:39] hide**
Kanetsugu...
**[14:51] kage**
I cannot break that promise either.
**[15:06] hide**
Why you...
**[15:12] kage**
Does he still hold a grudge from that time?
**[15:16] kane**
Hideyoshi was also a man of battle.
**[15:18] kane**
He knew what would happen
**[15:21] kane**
if he struck down two defenseless men.
**[15:24] kage**
That would mean Echigo's soldiers
all died for the sake of righteousness.
**[15:24] sign**
Righteousness
**[15:29] kane**
And soldiers who know
they're dead men are strong.
**[15:32] kane**
Even if their enemies were 100,000,
their enemy would have suffered.
**[15:37] kage**
So that means...
**[15:40] kane**
Of course, we only have one choice...
**[15:56] person**
I see...
***SIGN*** Sen no Rikyu
**[16:02] person**
So if Keiji-han were to do something,
**[16:05] person**
Uesugi-han would have
been held responsible
**[16:08] person**
because he's the middleman.
**[16:13] mitsu**
It appears Milord is still after Echigo.
**[16:17] person**
Be careful.
**[16:19] person**
People tend to show their
true nature once they're cornered.
**[16:24] mitsu**
True nature?
**[16:26] person**
Have you forgotten about
Naoe Kanetsugu?
**[16:30] mitsu**
Naoe-dono?
**[16:33] person**
It is a secret among secrets
that only a few of us know.
**[16:43] person**
He is the son of Uesugi Kenshin,
that is his true nature.
**[16:50] person**
He's a much bigger villain to deal with
**[16:53] person**
than some silly eccentric.
**[17:10] kane**
Despite how secret it was,
**[17:14] kane**
there were a few others
who knew of my secret.
**[17:18] keiji**
And among those few
were Mitsunari and Rikyu.
**[17:23] kane**
Rikyu-dono had met with
Kenshin-dono before,
**[17:27] kane**
and while in audience with Mitsunari-dono,
he compared me to a tree peony,
**[17:32] kane**
a flower from the crest of my mother's family, after seeing the family resemblance.
**[17:45] kane**
He saw the shadow
of Lord Kenshin upon me.
**[17:50] keji**
In addition, he'd also seen
what actions I would take.
**[18:21] keiji**
What's this?
**[18:22] kane**
The letter from Ishida Mitsunari-dono.
**[18:35] keiji**
How troublesome for the Uesugi.
**[18:38] kane**
I will be heading to Kyoto.
**[18:42] keiji**
By yourself?
**[18:44] kane**
Yes...
**[18:58] keiji**
That means nothing I can say
will change your mind.
**[19:19] keiji**
Let us fight.
**[19:29] nar**
Kanetsugu knew...
**[19:32] nar**
Keiji was saying...
**[19:35] nar**
that this would all be easily settled
if he just took his head.
**[19:40] nar**
And Kanetsugu...
**[19:43] nar**
understood that Keiji was more
than willing to be struck down.
**[19:51] kane**
No.
**[19:53] keiji**
To protect their country, friends...
**[19:56] keiji**
no, even family, will
draw swords on each other.
**[20:01] keiji**
That is what a samurai does.
**[20:06] kane**
I cannot.
**[20:21] keiji**
Why?
**[20:23] keiji**
Isn't that why you showed me the letter?
**[20:27] kane**
No...
**[20:31] kane**
I have come to invite you to a battle.
**[20:34] keiji**
A battle?
**[20:36] kane**
Our enemy is Toyotomi Hideyoshi!
**[20:39] Keiji**
Wha...
**[20:40] kane**
Facing Hideyoshi at Jurakudai
would be a good opportunity.
**[20:44] kane**
As long as we can prepare
for our possible deaths,
**[20:47] kane**
he is not an unbeatable enemy.
**[20:51] kane**
However, then the world will,
once again, become a world of war.
**[20:56] kane**
Even if I am gone,
**[20:58] kane**
Echigo will gradually prepare for war.
**[21:03] keiji**
You are so...
**[21:09] nar**
It was then that the cool wind
of men of war passed through.
**[21:15] nar**
It was a very proud
wind of righteousness
**[21:20] nar**
that was trying to forget
the peaceful world.
**[21:30] keiji**
That's right.
**[21:31] keiji**
That is, indeed, true justice
in the world of the warring states.
**[21:38] keiji**
I accept this battle.
**[21:42] kane**
It will be a losing one.
**[21:47] keiji**
That's what makes it great.
**[21:50] kane**
You are quite a person.
**[21:53] keiji**
Look who's talking.
***SIGN*** Episode 9 The Eccentric, Yoroku!
**[23:41] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:44] kane**
Episode 9
"The Eccentric, Yoroku!"
**[23:49] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 9 - The Eccentric, Yoroku
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**[00:03] kane**
*I have come to invite you to a battle.*
**[00:06] keiji**
*A battle?*
**[00:08] kane**
*Our enemy is Toyotomi Hideyoshi!*
**[00:11] keiji**
*Wha...*
**[00:12] kane**
* Facing Hideyoshi at Jurakudai*
* would be a good opportunity.*
**[00:16] kane**
* As long as we can prepare*
* for our possible deaths,*
**[00:19] kane**
*he is not an unbeatable enemy.*
**[00:25] keiji**
For crying out loud...
**[00:27] keiji**
At that moment, I was
shocked and speechless,
**[00:31] keiji**
at what kind of man you were.
**[00:34] kane**
And I felt rather bad that I had
invited you to a hopeless, losing battle.
**[00:40] keiji**
I didn't mind.
**[00:41] keiji**
We are both men of war.
**[00:43] keiji**
There was nothing to fear,
even if it was just the two of us.
**[00:47] kane**
Actually, there was one
other at that time...
**[00:53] keiji**
Oh? And by that, you mean...
**[00:57] kane**
My spear-bearer, Mosuke.
**[01:03] kane**
For our audience with the Chief Advisor,
**[01:06] kane**
you and I had left,
via separate routes, to get to Kyoto.
**[01:11] kane**
I thought it would be my first trip
alone in quite a while, but...
**[01:24] kane**
Mosuke!
**[01:25] mosuke**
I finally... caught up with you!
**[01:28] mosuke**
How dare you leave me behind?!
**[01:31] kane**
You...
**[01:33] kane**
Why did you follow me?
**[01:34] mosuke**
"Why"?!
**[01:36] kane**
I told you.
**[01:37] kane**
This would be a losing battle.
**[01:39] kane**
There's no need for you
to come die with me.
**[01:42] mosuke**
What are you talking about, Milord?
**[01:44] mosuke**
Did you forget what you had said
to me back then on this very land?
**[01:50] kane**
Me?
**[01:53] mosuke**
Yeah.
**[01:54] mosuke**
This is my spear.
**[01:56] mosuke**
That this is the spear that I bear.
**[02:01] kane**
I see...
**[02:03] kane**
This is Azuchi's land.
**[02:05] kane**
And where we had met.
**[02:17] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[02:23] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[02:27] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** The Eccentric, Yoroku
**[03:50] guys**
Heave ho! Heave ho!
**[03:55] guys**
Heave ho! Heave ho!
**[03:58] guy**
Louder! I can't hear you! Louder!
**[04:00] guy**
Louder!
**[04:04] Nar**
January, 1576.
**[04:06] Nar**
Oda Nobunaga announced
the construction of Azuchi Castle,
**[04:11] nar**
took the initiative to live on this land,
**[04:14] nar**
and oversaw the construction
of the castle himself.
**[04:18] nar**
Because of that,
at the base of Mt. Azuchi,
**[04:22] nar**
there were tens of thousands
of laborers who were lined up in shacks.
**[04:29] nar**
The merchants who went there for that reason,
enjoyed themselves with prostitutes.
**[04:35] nar**
However...
**[04:39] guy**
Do you want to die?!
**[04:42] guy**
Hurry up and give me that woman!
**[04:45] mosuke**
P-Please! Anyone but her!
**[04:50] guy**
Why you...
**[04:52] guy 2**
Now, now. No need for violence.
**[04:57] guy**
Boss.
**[05:00] boss**
We can talk this out.
**[05:04] boss**
Just gotta say it, so he understands.
**[05:07] boss**
We found that girl on the battlefields
of Shinano, and she is my slave.
**[05:13] boss**
It's only right that you return
her to her rightful owner.
**[05:17] mosuke**
B-But I had bought her from
a merchant for five kan!
**[05:21] boss**
And?
**[05:23] boss**
That merchant stole her
from me and sold her.
**[05:28] boss**
If you have a problem, discuss it
with that thief of a merchant.
**[05:31] mosuke**
Please don't!
**[05:34] mosuke**
She's not a slave anymore!
**[05:36] mosuke**
She's my wife!
**[05:38] mosuke**
She even has a baby in her belly!
**[05:40] boss**
Oh... a baby, you say?
**[05:43] boss**
Well, how about this...
in terms you understand.
**[05:46] boss**
I'll let you keep them
both for ten kan.
**[05:51] mosuke**
Ten kan?!
**[05:53] mosuke**
I-I don't have that kind of money!
**[05:55] boss**
Then the talk ends here.
**[05:57] boss**
Take or be taken is
the law of the warring era.
**[06:01] boss**
I'll just have to take back
what's mine by force.
**[06:06] boss**
This should be easy to understand.
**[06:15] yoroku**
Well, I'd say there's
a problem with that logic.
**[06:20] yoroku**
I don't believe that's how things
are done in Azuchi.
**[06:24] boss**
Who the hell are you, monk?
**[06:26] yoroku**
The righteousness
of the price of commodity:
**[06:28] yoroku**
Even if something is stolen,
**[06:31] yoroku**
if the owner doesn't know that,
they will not be punished.
**[06:35] yoroku**
I thought that was the rule
in the city of Azuchi.
**[06:38] boss**
Huh?
**[06:39] boss**
What the hell are you talking about?
**[06:42] yoroku**
Meaning, if a person
bought something that he
**[06:45] yoroku**
didn't know was stolen,
they are not at fault.
**[06:47] yoroku**
Even though it was stolen, the one
from whom it was stolen can't complain.
**[06:52] yoroku**
Didn't you see that written
on the official bulletin board?
**[06:55] guy**
You idiot!
**[06:56] guy**
Our boss can't read
something that difficult!
**[07:03] boss**
Oh, is that so?
**[07:05] boss**
A rule like that was written
on the bulletin board, eh?
**[07:08] boss**
But sadly, my eyes are pretty bad,
so I didn't see anything like that.
**[07:15] yoroku**
Then are those eyes
of yours just for show?
**[07:18] boss**
Yep, they're just for show.
**[07:20] boss**
How about I give them to ya?
**[07:24] yoroku**
Sniff, sniff, sniff.
**[07:26] yoroku**
Sniff, sniff, sniff...
**[07:28] yoroku**
sniff.
**[07:30] yoroku**
Hey.
**[07:32] yoroku**
You sure those eyes aren't rotten?
**[07:34] yoroku**
They smell so bad that
they're like rotten fish!
**[07:37] boss**
My eyes... are rotten fish?
**[07:40] yoroku**
Yeah, even cats would step
over that stench.
**[07:46] boss**
You dare mock me, monk?!
**[07:55] boss**
Ow!
**[08:00] boss**
Huh?
**[08:01] boss**
Huh? What?
**[08:02] boss**
My eye...
**[08:04] boss**
Hey, is it attached?
**[08:06] boss**
My eye.
**[08:07] boss**
Is it attached?
**[08:09] guy**
Uh, no... It's not
attached, right?
**[08:12] guy**
Y-Yeah...
**[08:22] mosuke**
Still want to go at it?
**[08:34] yoroku**
Ha!
**[08:35] yoroku**
A cat really did step over it!
**[08:43] yoroku**
Hey, is your baby safe?
**[08:46] mosuke**
Y-Yes!
**[08:47] mosuke**
Th-Thank you very much!
**[08:50] wifey**
Thank you very much...
**[08:56] keiji**
So that was how you
met the spear-bearer.
**[09:00] kane**
Yes.
**[09:02] kane**
That was the time
when I went to Azuchi
**[09:05] kane**
because I wanted
to meet Lord Nobunaga.
**[09:09] kane**
I'd come to know Mosuke
since that meeting,
**[09:15] kane**
so I asked him to cross
the River Styx with me.
**[09:24] kane**
However...
**[09:27] kane**
After I had safely gotten back
from my meeting with Lord Nobunaga,
**[09:31] kane**
and we were celebrating...
**[09:49] kane**
I could tell... that he was
willing to go to war.
**[09:59] kane**
I had learned that while Mosuke was
away from his house, his wife was killed.
**[10:06] kane**
The one behind that was
the one whose eyeball I had taken....
**[10:09] kane**
the leader of the bandits...
**[10:12] kane**
Gonza, the Ogre-slayer.
**[10:26] mosuke**
Ofuji...
**[10:30] mosuke**
I'll follow you. I'll be there soon.
**[10:39] mosuke**
You and my child are over there...
**[10:44] mosuke**
I have nothing left in this world.
**[10:47] mosuke**
This world is just lonely.
**[10:57] yoroku**
You're planning on dying by yourself?
**[11:00] yoroku**
Don't be such a loner.
**[11:03] mosuke**
Milord...
**[11:06] yoroku**
I heard everything.
**[11:08] yoroku**
I'm responsible for this, as well.
**[11:11] mosuke**
But we're dealing with...
**[11:13] yoroku**
I know... We'll be
dealing with at least a hundred.
**[11:18] yoroku**
If it was just you,
it would be one versus a hundred.
**[11:22] yoroku**
Therefore...
**[11:24] yoroku**
This is not just revenge,
but a proper war!
**[11:29] yoroku**
I, Higuchi Yoroku,
will have your back!
**[12:00] mosuke**
There really are a hundred...
**[12:03] mosuke**
And they even have guns.
**[12:06] mosuke**
It doesn't matter!
**[12:07] mosuke**
I don't care how many there are!
**[12:08] mosuke**
I'm going to die anyway.
**[12:10] yoroku**
That is a proper resolve.
**[12:12] yoroku**
Then you will not lose in this war.
**[12:19] mosuke**
What's that?
**[12:21] yoroku**
These are bombs.
**[12:23] yoroku**
They'll be useful in this war.
**[12:27] mosuke**
Bombs?
**[12:31] boss**
What?!
**[12:33] boss**
That wandering monk who took
my eyeball is a retainer of the Uesugi?
**[12:39] guy**
He is.
**[12:40] guy**
What shall we do?
**[12:42] guy**
I'm already prepared
to take him out.
**[12:45] ---**
**[12:48] boss**
I don't care whose retainer he is.
**[12:52] boss**
There's no way I'll let him live—
**[12:54] yoroku**
You're right. There's no way I'll let you live.
**[12:58] boss**
Eh?
**[12:59] boss**
Huh? Chi—
**[13:25] boss**
What... is...
**[13:43] boss**
Y-Y-You're...
**[13:47] mosuke**
This is for my wife and child!
**[13:49] mosuke**
Repay them with your life!
**[13:57] yoroku**
I, Higuchi Yoroku, the retainer
of Uesugi Kenshin, shall aide you!
**[14:02] boss**
Wh-What are you babbling about?!
**[14:05] boss**
You little brat!
**[14:24] yoroku**
Mosuke!
**[14:26] yoroku**
This is for your revenge!
**[14:27] yoroku**
Take Gonza's head!
**[14:29] mosuke**
Right!
**[14:31] mosuke**
Gonza!
**[14:36] mosuke**
Huh?!
**[14:38] boss**
Don't underestimate me...
**[14:40] boss**
I won't let my head
be taken by the likes of you!
**[14:44] guy**
Damn it...
**[14:49] yoroku**
Well, this isn't good.
**[14:50] mosuke**
M-Milord!
**[14:52] boss**
Bombs, eh?
**[14:54] boss**
That'll definitely make
some noise and startle people,
**[14:57] boss**
but you won't be able
to kill too many with it.
**[15:01] yoroku**
Then... we're fleeing, Mosuke.
**[15:05] mosuke**
Huh?!
**[15:05] mosuke**
F-Fleeing?!
**[15:10] yoroku**
Ha!
**[15:11] yoroku**
Kiss my ass!
**[15:14] yoroku**
You fool! Idiot!
**[15:26] boss**
Don't you screw with me!
**[15:27] boss**
You owe me for my eye!
**[15:29] boss**
I won't let you leave alive!
**[15:32] boss**
Catch them and kill them!
**[15:56] mosuke**
M-Milord!
**[15:58] mosuke**
Leave me and run!
**[16:00] mosuke**
They'll catch up to us
if I'm with you.
**[16:03] yoroku**
That's exactly what I want.
**[16:05] mosuke**
Huh?
**[16:19] mosuke**
M-Milord... what are you doing?
**[16:33] guy**
They have more bombs!
**[16:38] guy**
Why are you stopping?!
**[16:40] guy**
Keep moving!
**[16:41] guy**
You idiot!
**[16:42] guy**
Turn back!
**[16:50] mosuke**
I see!
**[16:51] mosuke**
The enemy's stuck on the long,
narrow bridge and has nowhere to go.
**[16:54] mosuke**
So you purposely brought them here?
**[16:57] yoroku**
A war without intelligence
cannot be won.
**[17:00] yoroku**
That is from the teachings
of Omijou-sama.
**[17:06] yoroku**
Now...
**[17:07] yoroku**
Let us start this war!
**[17:11] yoroku**
Take this!
**[17:29] mosuke**
Gonza!
**[17:38] boss**
I'm right here!
**[17:46] ---**
M-Milord!
**[17:48] yoroku**
Were you planning to ignore my aide?
**[17:50] boss**
Curse you, Higuchi Yoroku...
**[17:59] yoroku**
Gonza, the Ogre-slayer,
we shall be taking your head.
**[18:03] boss**
Uh... That's really long...
**[18:38] yoroku**
Those who want
to face me, come forward!
**[18:50] keiji**
To face a hundred bandits
with just the two of you...
**[18:53] keiji**
Nothing less from Kanetsugu-dono.
**[18:54] kane**
That was rather reckless,
if I do say so myself.
**[18:58] kane**
I'm embarrassed now
that I look back on it.
**[19:01] keiji**
But how does that revenge and what
the spear-bearer said connect?
**[19:06] kane**
Right... That happened on the day
I was going to leave Azuchi.
**[19:18] mosuke**
Ofuji... I miss you.
***SIGN*** Mosuke Hana Ofuji
**[19:23] mosuke**
I miss you so much...
**[19:28] mosuke**
I can't live.
**[19:34] yoroku**
To use your own grave
as a stepping stone to hang yourself...
**[19:37] yoroku**
what an accursed thing to do.
**[19:41] mosuke**
M-Milord?!
**[19:43] yoroku**
What in the world are you doing?
***SIGN*** Hana
**[19:52] yoroku**
I see... So the child who was
to be born was a daughter.
**[19:58] nar**
Mosuke had seen his wife with
her belly sliced open...
**[20:04] nar**
That is how he possibly knew
the baby was to be a daughter.
**[20:11] mosuke**
She was supposed to be born
right around the time
**[20:15] mosuke**
the cherry blossoms start to bloom.
**[20:17] mosuke**
That's why we named her Hana.
**[20:29] yoroku**
How about it, Mosuke?
**[20:31] yoroku**
If you're going to hang yourself
beneath a cherry tree, do it in the spring!
**[20:34] mosuke**
Huh?
**[20:36] yoroku**
When a thousand,
tens of thousands of blossoms
**[20:40] yoroku**
create a storm of petals
to accompany you...
**[20:44] yoroku**
Even hanging yourself would
look rather extravagant.
**[20:52] mosuke**
Ow...
**[20:54] yoroku**
Hey.
**[20:55] mosuke**
M-Milord?
**[20:58] yoroku**
I don't have anyone to hold this spear.
**[21:01] yoroku**
To Echigo...
**[21:02] yoroku**
No. Until your death...
**[21:05] yoroku**
Will you bear this spear for me?
**[21:11] mosuke**
M-Milord...
**[21:18] mosuke**
Milord!
**[21:23] keiji**
I see...
**[21:25] keiji**
So that's how he became your spear-bearer.
**[21:28] kane**
Yes.
**[21:31] kane**
And I shall never forget...
**[21:34] kane**
The gleam in his eyes...
**[21:39] kane**
truly belonged to a man of war.
**[21:47] kane**
You're right.
**[21:48] kane**
That is, indeed, your spear.
**[21:53] kane**
Then will you bear that spear...
**[21:56] kane**
until your death?
**[22:00] mosuke**
Yes, sir!
**[22:03] kane**
Now, let us hurry...
**[22:05] kane**
to the battlefield in Kyoto!
**[22:07] mosuke**
Yes!
***SIGN*** Episode 10 Usugumo's Eccentric
**[23:41] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:45] kane**
Episode 10
"Usugumo's Eccentric"
**[23:49] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 10 - Usugumo's Eccentricity
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**[00:04] keiji**
*For crying out loud...*
**[00:06] keiji**
* I was pretty fed up with the tenacity*
* of the Chief Advisor Hideyoshi at the time.*
**[00:12] keiji**
* To think he tried to use me*
* to conquer Echigo*
**[00:15] keiji**
* because he couldn't get his hands*
* on Uesugi by himself.*
**[00:19] kane**
Indeed.
**[00:21] kane**
For him to say that he wanted
to see your eccentricity.
**[00:27] hide**
*What?*
**[00:28] hide**
*I said, Keiji...*
**[00:30] hide**
*I want to meet with Maeda Keiji.*
**[00:36] kane**
The Chief Advisor knew...
**[00:39] kane**
the fact that you wouldn't
accept such a request.
**[00:43] kane**
Actually, Hideyoshi knew
that you would disobey him.
**[00:50] keiji**
That is, indeed,
what an eccentric would do.
**[00:53] kane**
Keiji-dono's eccentricity
**[00:55] kane**
is neither an exhibition nor an act.
**[00:57] kane**
It's how he lives his life.
**[00:59] kane**
And asking him just to display it...
**[01:03] keiji**
But then again, a request from the man
who rules the country is the same as an order.
**[01:07] keiji**
Not to mention, if something were
to happen during that meeting,
**[01:10] keiji**
the Uesugi would shoulder the blame,
because of who the mediator is.
**[01:13] kane**
And if that were to happen,
Echigo would be blown away.
**[01:17] keiji**
This was, indeed, life or death.
**[01:20] keiji**
But this would have all been settled
**[01:23] keiji**
rather quickly if we had just
presented him with my head.
**[01:26] keiji**
And yet you...
**[01:31] kane**
*No...*
**[01:34] kane**
* I have come to invite*
* you to a battle.*
**[01:37] keiji**
*A battle?*
**[01:38] kane**
*Our enemy is Toyotomi Hideyoshi!*
**[01:42] keiji**
*Wha...*
**[01:43] kane**
* Facing Hideyoshi at Jurakudai*
* would be a good opportunity.*
**[01:47] kane**
* As long as we can prepare*
* for our possible deaths,*
**[01:50] kane**
*he is not an unbeatable enemy.*
**[01:54] kane**
* However, then the world will,*
* once again, become a world of war.*
**[01:59] kane**
*Even if I am gone,*
**[02:01] kane**
*Echigo will gradually prepare for war.*
**[02:06] keiji**
*You are so...*
**[02:14] keiji**
The wind that had passed through just then...
**[02:17] keiji**
was a very proud wind of righteousness
**[02:23] keiji**
that was being forgotten
in the peaceful world.
**[02:29] keiji**
*I accept this battle.*
**[02:33] kane**
*It will be a losing one.*
**[02:38] keiji**
*That's what makes it great.*
**[02:41] kane**
*You are quite a person.*
**[02:44] keiji**
*Look who's talking.*
**[03:06] nar**
The character "gi" (righteousness),
combines "oneself" with "sheep."
**[03:10] nar**
"Sheep" is the same as "beauty."
**[03:13] nar**
Therefore, "gi" means
"to make yourself beautiful."
**[03:18] nar**
I repeat.
**[03:20] nar**
"Gi" truly means
"For one to live beautifully."
**[03:31] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[03:37] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[03:41] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** Usugumo's Eccentricity
**[05:19] hide**
I heard that those men
will be arriving in Kyoto soon.
**[05:25] toshi**
By that, you mean...
**[05:27] hide**
Mataza-dono, you should attend, as well.
**[05:31] toshi**
Huh? Wha... Huh?
**[05:37] hide**
You will meet with Maeda Keiji.
**[05:49] toshi**
No, no, no...
**[05:51] toshi**
That is unnecessary...
**[05:53] hide**
Mataza-dono!
**[05:55] hide**
But he is your nephew.
**[05:58] hide**
That's rather distant of you.
**[06:03] hide**
I have invited Tokugawa-dono, as well.
**[06:07] toshi**
T-T-T-T-Tokugawa, too?!
**[06:13] hide**
Why don't we all enjoy
observing the eccentric.
**[06:30] mitsu**
*Why?*
**[06:32] mitsu**
* Why did he accept the orders*
* from his Highness so easily?*
**[06:36] mitsu**
* That's the same as you purposely*
* falling into his trap, Naoe Kanetsugu!*
**[06:43] toshi**
No doubt.
**[06:45] toshi**
Curse the Uesugi!
**[06:47] toshi**
How dare they do
something so meddlesome?
**[06:49] toshi**
There's no way that
Keiji would stay still
**[06:51] toshi**
and behave himself
in front of his Highness.
**[06:54] toshi**
Knowing him... if he were to... if...
**[07:10] toshi**
There's no way that I'll be safe!
**[07:14] toshi**
This just means that I...
**[07:15] toshi**
Hey!
**[07:16] guy**
Sir.
**[07:18] toshi**
Keiji and Kanetsugu are heading
here separately, right?
**[07:21] ninja**
Keiji-dono has already arrived in Kyoto,
but we are not sure where he went.
**[07:26] toshi**
Then just Kanetsugu will be fine.
**[07:29] toshi**
Oh, it's not like I'm going to have him killed...
**[07:32] toshi**
But if he were to have some accident
where he hurt himself bad enough
**[07:36] toshi**
that the mediator will disappear,
then the meeting would be called off.
**[07:39] toshi**
You got it?
**[07:41] ninja**
Yes, sir!
**[08:00] kane**
Well, well... a bullfight in Kyoto.
**[08:03] mosuke**
My word...
**[08:05] mosuke**
They're so big they look like they're hills!
**[08:17] kane**
What a marvelous display of strength!
**[08:20] mosuke**
Go!
**[08:20] jiro**
Mosuke.
**[08:22] mosuke**
What is it, Jirobo?
**[08:24] mosuke**
And where did you come from?
**[08:25] jiro**
Get ready for battle.
**[08:26] jiro**
We're already surrounded.
**[08:29] mosuke**
Huh?
**[08:34] person**
Wh-What's going on?!
**[08:36] person**
It went crazy all of a sudden!
**[08:37] person**
Look out! Run!
**[08:41] kane**
Oh?
**[08:42] mosuke**
We're surrounded?!
**[08:48] jiro**
Huh?
**[08:49] kane**
The bull means no harm.
**[08:51] kane**
Mosuke!
**[08:52] kane**
Your spear!
**[08:53] mosuke**
Oh, uh...
**[08:59] kane**
Up we go!
**[09:10] person**
Y-You're running?!
**[09:26] person**
What?!
**[09:36] kane**
How awful...
**[09:45] kane**
The sword of a samurai
is the same as your horns.
**[09:50] kane**
Because you were born with horns,
it means that you were born to fight.
**[09:57] kane**
It is only natural for a samurai
to be angry if his battle was tainted.
**[10:03] kane**
Therefore, I accept this battle!
**[10:16] toshi**
B-But...
**[10:19] toshi**
So, apparently, he was a monster, as well.
**[10:23] ninja**
I'm terribly sorry.
**[10:26] toshi**
I'm...
**[10:29] toshi**
I'm doomed...
**[10:35] ie**
Very good.
**[10:41] ie**
Right there. Right there.
**[10:52] ie**
From my understanding,
**[10:55] ie**
it appears that Toshiie-dono
couldn't take it anymore.
**[11:00] honda**
That seems to be the case.
**[11:02] honda**
But observing eccentrics
is rather eccentric itself.
**[11:06] ie**
But because of that, we're able to see
**[11:11] ie**
the man behind all
the rumors, Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[11:18] ie**
I wonder what kind of man he really is...
**[11:22] ie**
I'm excited to meet him.
**[11:45] usu**
What's the matter?
**[11:48] usu**
You haven't been to Kyoto in a while,
but your face is so glum.
**[11:53] usu**
Poke, poke.
**[11:56] usu**
Poke, poke.
**[11:57] keiji**
Stop that.
**[11:59] usu**
Nope, I won't.
**[12:02] usu**
Poke, poke.
**[12:04] usu**
But, seriously, what's the matter?
**[12:18] keiji**
Even though it's for my friend,
I'm going to have to bow before someone.
**[12:29] keiji**
I just can't seem to do it...
**[12:42] keiji**
Kanetsugu-dono!
**[12:44] usu**
Well, you came here at just the right time.
**[12:48] usu**
There's something wrong with Keiji-han.
**[12:54] keiji**
So, Kanetsugu-dono...
**[12:56] keiji**
Did anything strange
happen on your way here?
**[13:01] kane**
Well...
**[13:07] keiji**
So, something like that
happened in Kamogawa...
**[13:10] kane**
Yes...
**[13:11] keiji**
I'm going to presume
that my uncle was behind it.
**[13:14] keiji**
I apologize.
**[13:15] kane**
No, not at all.
**[13:17] kane**
I'm glad we both got here safely.
**[13:19] keiji**
Indeed.
**[13:21] kane**
Keiji-dono.
**[13:24] kane**
Could you play your biwa for me again?
**[13:26] keiji**
Sure thing.
**[13:51] kane**
This is what I was looking
forward to in Kyoto.
**[14:14] michi**
It appears that Kanetsugu-dono
has arrived...
**[14:18] michi**
along with Maeda Keiji.
**[14:23] mitsu**
Impossible!
**[14:25] mitsu**
He should have left or been killed!
**[14:29] mitsu**
His Highness is after Echigo!
**[14:31] michi**
I had said that it'd be
life-threatening for the Uesugi
**[14:34] michi**
if that eccentric were
to meet with his Highness...
**[14:39] michi**
But Kanetsugu-dono just
kept smiling in response.
**[14:45] mitsu**
Smiling?
**[14:47] michi**
Indeed.
**[14:48] mitsu**
Why was he smiling...
**[14:56] person**
Be careful.
**[15:01] person**
People tend to show their
true nature once they're cornered.
**[15:06] mitsu**
True nature?
**[15:07] person**
Have you forgotten about Naoe Kanetsugu?
**[15:12] mitsu**
Naoe-dono?
**[15:15] person**
It is a secret among secrets
that only a few of us know.
**[15:25] person**
He is the son of Uesugi Kenshin.
That is his true nature.
**[15:32] person**
He's a much bigger villain to deal with
**[15:36] person**
than some silly eccentric.
**[15:44] mitsu**
Ayatachi-dono...
**[15:46] mitsu**
What do you think Uesugi Kenshin
**[15:49] mitsu**
would have done at a time like this?
**[15:54] michi**
A while back during
the battle at Kawanakajima,
**[15:57] michi**
he barged into Takeda's camp
and threw down his sword.
**[16:07] michi**
If it were Kenshin...
**[16:09] michi**
His Highness's life would be in danger.
**[16:13] mitsu**
Y-You think so, as well...
**[16:17] mitsu**
Sakon!
**[16:19] mitsu**
Hurry and call for Sakon!
**[16:21] mitsu**
I need him to run an errand for me.
**[16:41] keiji**
Oh... Well, that's not good.
**[16:45] keiji**
I'll put on a new string...
**[16:54] keiji**
Kanetsugu-dono...
**[16:58] kane**
I'm terribly sorry for what I've
asked you to do in this battle.
**[17:08] keiji**
So my troubles seem to have carried
into the melody of the biwa.
**[17:12] keiji**
But don't worry about it.
**[17:16] keiji**
A once-in-a-lifetime battle
with the Chief Advisor.
**[17:19] keiji**
When I consider the fun of that,
what's a head or two?
**[17:25] guy**
Usugumo!
**[17:30] girl**
Sir, you mustn't! Sir, you mustn't!
**[17:33] guy**
Shut up!
**[17:35] guy**
Where's Usugumo?
**[17:37] guy**
Usugumo!
**[17:40] guy**
There you are.
**[17:42] guy**
Usugumo, how long are you
going to keep me waiting?
**[17:46] usu**
Eh?
**[17:47] guy**
Come!
**[17:48] guy**
Hurry and come to me!
**[17:49] girl**
You mustn't! You mustn't!
**[17:51] guy**
Now come.
**[17:55] usu**
Stop this.
**[17:57] guy**
Wh-What?!
**[17:59] girl**
Sir, please don't.
**[18:02] girl**
She's already been reserved for today.
**[18:05] girl**
Please pick another girl...
**[18:13] guy**
No!
**[18:14] guy**
I want Usugumo!
**[18:19] guy**
What's this?
**[18:26] keiji**
How pathetic.
**[18:28] guy**
So, you're picking a fight with me?
**[18:57] usu**
Don't!
**[18:59] usu**
This is my room.
**[19:02] usu**
Please don't.
**[19:08] guy**
A whore speaking that way to their customer?
**[19:13] guy**
You need to lower your head
when asking someone to do something!
**[19:18] guy**
Well?
**[19:28] guy**
What?
**[19:41] nar**
Usugumo's topknot was pointing
straight at the samurai,
**[19:46] nar**
but her face was facing the side.
**[19:50] nar**
Usugumo was lowering
her head by looking to the side.
**[19:55] guy**
Wh-Why you...
**[20:00] guy**
You think that means you lowered your head?
**[20:04] usu**
I'm doing all of this for you.
**[20:09] guy**
For me?
**[20:13] nar**
Lowering her head even though
she doesn't want to...
**[20:16] nar**
The customer doesn't recognize her kindness.
**[20:21] nar**
But the ones here are
Maeda Keiji and Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[20:29] nar**
They are the worst possible
people to pick a fight with.
**[20:38] keiji**
This is it!
**[20:40] keiji**
Lowering your head like this.
**[20:45] kane**
What a fantastic display of will.
**[20:48] guy**
Wha?
**[20:57] guy**
Stop messing with me!
**[21:14] guy**
A merry, black Iberian pig on the wall...
**[21:19] person**
Huh?
**[21:21] person**
What's going on?
**[21:28] keiji**
What's that topknot called?
**[21:31] usu**
It's called karawa.
**[21:33] usu**
It's very popular lately.
**[21:37] keiji**
How eccentric!
**[21:40] keiji**
I'm going to have to show it to that monkey.
**[21:44] kane**
I'm sure that'll make him quite happy.
**[21:47] usu**
Happy?
**[21:48] usu**
Monkey?
**[21:50] usu**
What monkey are you talking about?
***SIGN*** Episode 11 Audience with the Ruler
**[23:40] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:44] kane**
Episode 11
"Audience with the Ruler."
**[23:48] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 11 - Audience with the Ruler
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G6NQJ2ZZ6/gifu-dodo-kanetsugu-and-keiji)
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**[00:01] michi**
It appears that Kanetsugu-dono
has arrived...
**[00:05] michi**
along with Maeda Keiji.
**[00:10] mitsu**
Impossible!
**[00:11] mitsu**
He should have left or been killed!
**[00:15] mitsu**
His Highness is after Echigo!
**[00:18] michi**
I had said that it'd be
life-threatening for the Uesugi
**[00:21] michi**
if that eccentric were
to meet with his Highness...
**[00:26] michi**
But Kanetsugu-dono just
kept smiling in response.
**[00:32] mitsu**
Smiling?
**[00:33] michi**
Indeed.
**[00:35] mitsu**
Why was he smiling...
**[00:40] person**
*Be careful.*
**[00:45] person**
* People tend to show their*
* true nature once they're cornered.*
**[00:50] mitsu**
*True nature?*
**[00:51] person**
* Have you forgotten about*
* Naoe Kanetsugu-dono?*
**[00:56] mitsu**
*Naoe-dono?*
**[00:59] person**
* It is a secret among secrets*
* that only a few of us know.*
**[01:09] person**
* He is the son of Uesugi Kenshin.*
* That is his true nature.*
**[01:16] person**
*He's a much bigger villain to deal with*
**[01:19] person**
*than some silly eccentric.*
**[01:28] mitsu**
Ayatachi-dono...
**[01:30] mitsu**
What do you think Uesugi Kenshin
**[01:33] mitsu**
would have done at a time like this?
**[01:38] michi**
A while back during
the battle at Kawanakajima,
**[01:41] michi**
he barged into Takeda's camp
and threw down his sword.
**[01:49] michi**
If it were Kenshin...
**[01:52] michi**
The life of his Highness would be in danger.
**[01:56] mitsu**
Y-You think so, as well...
**[02:00] mitsu**
Sakon!
**[02:02] mitsu**
Hurry and call for Sakon!
**[02:04] mitsu**
I need him to run an errand for me.
**[02:13] nar**
The character "gi" (righteousness),
combines "oneself" with "sheep."
**[02:17] nar**
"Sheep" is the same as "beauty."
**[02:21] nar**
Therefore, "gi" means
"to make yourself beautiful."
**[02:25] nar**
I repeat.
**[02:27] nar**
"Gi" truly means
"For one to live beautifully."
**[02:38] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[02:44] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[02:48] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** Audience with the Ruler
**[04:53] person**
Excuse me...
**[04:55] person**
Ishida Mitsunari-sama's messenger,
Shima Sakon-sama, has just arrived.
**[05:10] hide**
I see... So you've
summoned that man.
**[05:14] hide**
Mitsunari... that's very like you.
**[05:18] mitsu**
Yes.
**[05:19] mitsu**
But Milord...
**[05:20] hide**
Yes?
**[05:22] mitsu**
I beg your pardon, but there's
something I'd like to ask you.
**[05:24] hide**
What is it?
**[05:26] mitsu**
The incident at Sado,
and now this request for an audience...
**[05:29] mitsu**
Why do you have such an interest in Echigo?
**[05:32] mitsu**
If you truly wished,
**[05:34] mitsu**
it'd be easy for you to be rid of
the Uesugi using Kanetsugu's bloodline.
**[05:38] mitsu**
And yet...
**[05:42] hide**
Kanetsugu's bloodline...
**[05:45] hide**
I can't carelessly touch upon that.
**[05:49] hide**
Considering even Lord Nobunaga
**[05:52] hide**
tried using that fact
in his favor and yet failed.
**[05:55] mitsu**
Then the event at Ochirimizu Castle still...
**[06:02] hide**
*I would like to have Naoe Kanetsugu.*
**[06:08] hide**
* Kagekatsu-dono, you refuse,*
* despite my repeated pleas?*
**[06:14] hide**
*Then the only thing that awaits Echigo—*
**[06:22] kane**
*What to do...*
**[06:25] hide**
*What do you mean?*
**[06:27] kane**
*I love my lord.*
**[06:30] hide**
*So?*
**[06:32] kane**
*Because of that, I made a promise to him*
**[06:35] kane**
*that we would become a bond for Echigo.*
**[06:47] kane**
*I cannot break my promise.*
**[06:50] kane**
*That is what my love means.*
**[06:53] hide**
*Kanetsugu...*
**[07:05] kage**
*I cannot break that promise either.*
**[07:10] mitsu**
The two of them had strongly
objected your request.
**[07:16] hide**
At first, I did.
**[07:19] hide**
Both of them opposed me.
**[07:22] hide**
You ask if this is revenge for that?
**[07:24] hide**
It is not.
**[07:28] mitsu**
Th-Then why?
**[07:33] hide**
Who knows?
**[07:35] hide**
We shall probably find out tomorrow.
**[07:39] hide**
Let us see exactly what they'll do...
**[07:42] hide**
How exactly they'll try
to protect Echigo this time.
**[07:47] hide**
I'm really looking forward to tomorrow.
**[08:11] person**
Tokugawa Ieyasu-sama has arrived!
**[08:20] person**
Maeda Toshiie-sama has arrived!
**[08:26] toshi**
It's finally come...
**[08:28] toshi**
This day has finally come...
**[08:30] ieyasu**
Well, if it isn't Toshiie-dono.
**[08:37] toshi**
T-Tokugawa-dono...
**[08:40] ieyasu**
It's a wonderful morning, is it not?
**[08:42] ieyasu**
Truly perfect weather for an audience...
**[08:45] ieyasu**
Don't you think?
***SIGN*** Tokugawa Ieyasu
**[08:50] toshi**
No, no...
**[08:52] toshi**
It would have been better
if this day had never come.
**[08:57] ieyasu**
I was rather looking forward
to the meeting today.
**[09:02] ieyasu**
If you'll excuse me...
**[09:08] toshi**
Rubbing in the fact that
this has nothing to do with him...
**[09:11] person**
Naoe Kanetsugu-sama and
Maeda Keiji-sama have arrived!
**[09:17] toshi**
They're here!
**[09:40] person**
Please wait here...
**[09:57] mitsu**
*Why...*
**[09:59] mitsu**
*Why did you come here, Kanetsugu?*
**[10:10] mosuke**
For crying out loud...
**[10:13] mosuke**
Milord even said this would be
a losing battle, so what's he thinking?
**[10:19] mosuke**
Wait a minute.
**[10:20] mosuke**
Knowing Milord... if it came
down to it, a monkey's ass...
**[10:26] mosuke**
Ow, ow, ow!
What was that for, Jirobo?
**[10:30] jiro**
This shack and Jurakudai
**[10:34] jiro**
are surrounded by Tamba ninja.
**[10:40] mosuke**
So we're trapped like rats?
**[10:45] jiro**
It means that the matter
of us leaving alive or not
**[10:48] jiro**
depends on what our lord will do.
**[10:50] mosuke**
B-But...
**[10:57] keiji**
It's true that, to everyone else,
our actions seemed reckless.
**[11:02] kane**
Indeed.
**[11:04] kane**
Even if we had gotten through all
of the ninjas they had around that place...
**[11:08] kane**
The one we'd have to face after that
**[11:15] kane**
was the terrifying true form
of Chief Advisor Hideyoshi.
**[11:27] kane**
The Chief Advisor's unknown past...
**[11:31] keiji**
Hideyoshi's father,
his family name was Konokage.
**[11:35] keiji**
He was a man who lived in the mountains
and changed his name to Kinoshita.
**[11:39] keiji**
A man who did nothing but
train as a shinobi in Tamba.
**[11:44] keiji**
And Hideyoshi was the child
of that mountain man.
**[11:49] keiji**
Indeed...
**[11:51] keiji**
Hideyoshi's form was
not that of a monkey.
**[11:57] keiji**
It was his heavily-trained body and
shinobi techniques that made him a monkey.
**[12:04] kane**
That is why Lord Nobunaga
drafted Hideyoshi,
**[12:08] kane**
and affectionately referred
to him as "Monkey."
**[12:11] keiji**
Yes.
**[12:12] keiji**
And up against that monkey,
**[12:14] keiji**
even if we had one sword,
we would not have a second.
**[12:18] kane**
And that was not the only surprising thing.
**[12:47] mitsu**
Your Highness... Everyone has
gathered in the inner citadel.
**[13:22] mitsu**
*Kanetsugu...*
**[13:24] mitsu**
*I am sorry!*
**[13:26] mitsu**
*I had no other choice...*
**[13:54] keiji**
The overwhelming murderous intent
that even reached our location...
**[13:58] keiji**
It was apparent that he was skilled,
**[14:00] keiji**
and his skills with a sword
surpassed our own.
**[14:03] kane**
Yes... I would never have imagined
**[14:06] kane**
such a man had been summoned
**[14:09] kane**
to this meeting, as well.
**[14:12] keiji**
It was even more proof that
Mitsunari was truly trying to stop us.
**[14:38] kane**
It appears that the stage is set.
**[14:41] keiji**
Indeed.
**[14:42] keiji**
At least half of the people present
in the inner citadel are enemies.
**[14:46] kane**
It appears to be a worthy place for a battle.
**[14:50] keiji**
It wouldn't be any fun, otherwise.
**[14:56] kane**
Then this battle with the ruler...
**[15:00] keiji**
There is but one path to follow!
**[15:03] both**
Let us head toward our deaths!
**[15:13] mosuke**
What's that drumming?
**[15:14] jirobo**
The meeting has started.
**[15:16] mosuke**
I pray that everything goes well.
**[15:24] someone**
Naoe Kanetsugu-dono
has arrived at the meeting!
**[15:51] toshi**
*So this is Naoe Kanetsugu...*
**[15:54] toshi**
*Exactly what kind of man is he?*
**[16:00] nar**
First, the order to conquer Sado...
**[16:03] nar**
and then wanting an audience
with Maeda Keiji...
**[16:07] nar**
All requests from the ruler
of the land in this era
**[16:13] nar**
were the same as absolute orders
that no one was allowed to decline.
**[16:18] nar**
On top of that,
**[16:20] nar**
this not only would risk
Kanetsugu's life and the fate of Echigo,
**[16:26] nar**
but it wouldn't be
an exaggeration to say that
**[16:30] nar**
everything was in the hands
of Hideyoshi and his want for Echigo.
**[16:35] nar**
And it was very possible for
Hideyoshi's hands to crush the fate of Echigo.
**[16:55] mitsu**
*Well, Kanetsugu?*
**[16:57] mitsu**
* Do you finally understand that*
* you're not going to be able*
**[17:00] mitsu**
*to lay a finger on his Highness?*
**[17:13] mitsu**
* C-Could it be that fuel is just*
* being added to the fire now?*
**[17:48] hide**
Welcome, Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[17:51] hide**
I haven't seen you since
Ochirimizu Castle.
**[17:54] hide**
Well done on conquering Sado!
**[17:57] hide**
Kanetsugu, you shall now
personally be in charge of Sado.
**[18:03] kane**
Yes, Milord.
**[18:07] kane**
I will inform my lord, Uesugi Kagekatsu.
**[18:20] hide**
Loyal as ever, I see.
**[18:26] hide**
And where is Maeda Keiji?
**[18:37] mitsu**
Your Highness,
**[18:38] mitsu**
the reason that Naoe-dono is here
today is to report the victory in Sado...
**[18:42] mitsu**
Therefore, it appears that he is
holding back and waiting in the hall.
**[18:49] hide**
Then hurry up and call him in!
**[18:51] hide**
Let us hear about these
heroic stories from Sado.
**[19:00] toshi**
Naoe-dono,
**[19:02] toshi**
I'm going to say this right now!
**[19:05] toshi**
Keiji has absconded from our clan,
**[19:08] toshi**
so he has nothing to do with us.
**[19:11] toshi**
Therefore, this is your...
**[19:19] kane**
I have brought him here
**[19:23] kane**
because Keiji-dono is my friend.
**[19:29] ieyasu**
*Friend?*
**[19:34] hide**
Then hurry and bring him in!
**[19:36] hide**
Hurry!
**[19:42] kane**
Understood, Milord.
**[19:44] kane**
I believe the preparations are finally ready.
**[19:48] mitsu**
*Preparations?*
**[19:56] kane**
Well, then...
**[19:59] peeps**
Maeda Keiji-sama,
his Highness is calling for you.
**[20:02] keiji**
Understood.
**[21:07] people**
Wh-What?!
**[21:12] Kane**
I present to you, Maeda Keiji.
**[21:30] mitsu**
*Wha?!*
**[21:48] mitsu**
*What is that top knot?!*
***SIGN*** Episode 12 Follow Your Heart...
**[23:41] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:45] kane**
Episode 12
"Follow Your Heart..."
**[23:48] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 12 - Follow Your Heart...
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**[00:02] keiji**
*How troublesome for the Uesugi.*
**[00:06] kane**
* The Chief Advisor wanted*
* to hear about the victory in Sado,*
**[00:10] kane**
*as well as the eccentricity of Keiji-dono.*
**[00:15] kane**
* But Keiji-dono's eccentricity*
* is neither an exhibition nor an act.*
**[00:20] kane**
*And asking him just to display it...*
**[00:25] keiji**
*Why...*
**[00:26] keiji**
*Why does Hideyoshi want Echigo that much?*
**[00:30] kane**
*I do not know...*
**[00:42] keiji**
* But this could be dealt with easily*
* if you just took my head.*
**[00:50] kane**
*I cannot.*
**[00:58] keiji**
*Why?*
**[01:00] keiji**
*Isn't that why you showed me the letter?*
**[01:04] kane**
*No...*
**[01:07] kane**
*I have come to invite you to a battle.*
**[01:10] keiji**
*A battle?*
**[01:12] kane**
*Our enemy is Toyotomi Hideyoshi!*
**[01:14] Keiji**
*Wha...*
**[01:20] keiji**
*You are so...*
**[01:23] keiji**
*I accept this battle.*
**[01:27] kane**
*It will be a losing one.*
**[01:32] keiji**
*That's what makes it great.*
**[02:05] Kane**
*I present to you, Maeda Keiji.*
**[02:20] mitsu**
*Wha?!*
**[02:31] mitsu**
*What is that top knot?!*
**[02:50] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[02:56] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[03:00] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** Follow Your Heart...
**[04:27] keiji**
But looking back...
**[04:29] keiji**
That meeting with Hideyoshi
**[04:31] keiji**
was rather exciting.
**[04:34] kane**
You make it sound so simple...
**[04:37] keiji**
No, it wasn't.
**[04:40] keiji**
I mean, Hideyoshi's page,
at the time, was rather skilled.
**[04:46] kane**
Indeed...
**[04:47] kane**
He was a man who
Mitsunari had summoned...
**[04:55] kane**
in order to protect Hideyoshi.
**[04:58] keiji**
Yes.
**[04:59] keiji**
Mitsunari had seen through our resolve.
**[05:03] keiji**
I will never forget that face.
**[05:07] kane**
Indeed.
**[05:09] kane**
Looking back now, it's rather nostalgic.
**[05:22] ieyasu**
Oh?
**[05:23] ieyasu**
*What's this?*
**[05:24] toshi**
Wh-Wh-Wh-Wh...
**[05:26] toshi**
What is the meaning of this?!
**[05:40] kane**
He shall show you his eccentricity...
**[05:44] kane**
As long as you are willing
to forgive some rudeness.
**[05:49] kane**
We present to you now....
**[05:52] kane**
The form of Maeda Keiji's resolve.
**[06:51] keiji**
Hmph.
**[07:12] mitsu**
*M-Maeda Keiji!*
**[07:26] toshi**
*Wha...*
**[07:28] toshi**
*I told you this would happen!*
**[07:32] mitsu**
*Y-You fool!*
**[07:35] mitsu**
*Are you mocking his Highness?!*
**[07:45] ieyasu**
* So he lowers his head, but he's not*
* truly lowering it in his heart...*
**[07:49] ieyasu**
* He doesn't even care if he's*
* dealing with the ruler of this land.*
**[08:10] mitsu**
*This stance...*
**[08:11] mitsu**
*Could it be?*
**[08:13] mitsu**
*Is he planning to attack his Highness?!*
**[08:31] mitsu**
*This is the end...*
**[08:51] hide**
That top knot...
**[08:53] hide**
is rather amusing.
**[09:07] hide**
Maeda Keiji...
**[09:09] hide**
Raise your head.
**[09:29] hide**
Why?
**[09:30] nar**
It was at this time,
**[09:33] nar**
that both Hideyoshi and Keiji had seen
through each other's true intentions.
**[09:39] nar**
Hideyoshi was asking,
**[09:41] nar**
"Did you not like the fact that I
asked you to show me your eccentricity?"
**[09:49] keiji**
This is my righteousness...
**[09:55] hide**
You would risk your life on that?
**[09:59] keiji**
That is what an eccentric does, sir.
**[10:17] hide**
Then...
**[10:18] ieyasu**
By the way, Naoe-dono...
**[10:21] ieyasu**
You had said that
Keiji-dono was your friend...
**[10:26] ieyasu**
Then what exactly is a friend?
**[10:30] kane**
Friend?
**[10:32] ieyasu**
I was asking myself if there
was anybody who I, Ieyasu,
**[10:37] ieyasu**
could actually call a friend.
**[10:41] kane**
Then...
**[10:42] kane**
A friend...
**[10:45] kane**
is someone you can die alongside
and not say a word.
**[10:51] nar**
Ieyasu immediately realized...
**[10:54] nar**
that Kanetsugu was ready to die with Keiji.
**[10:59] nar**
The thing that was most
in the way of attacking Hideyoshi
**[11:02] nar**
was the presence of the page.
**[11:04] nar**
That is why Kanetsugu was watching
neither Keiji nor Hideyoshi...
**[11:11] nar**
Instead, he stared at the page.
**[11:15] nar**
Ieyasu had realized that fact.
**[11:21] ieyasu**
To die together...
**[11:23] ieyasu**
Is that the righteousness of the Uesugi?
**[11:29] kane**
Indeed.
**[11:30] kane**
It is the treasure that we had
received from our liege, Lord Kenshin.
**[11:53] sent**
Is it another...
**[11:55] sent**
...war?
***SIGN*** Kenshin's Older Sister and Kagekatsu's Mother
Sentoin
**[11:57] kage**
Mother...
**[12:03] sent**
Lord Kenshin would always talk
**[12:06] sent**
to Bishamonten for days
right before going into battle.
**[12:13] sent**
You reminded me of that just now.
**[12:20] kage**
As for a war...
**[12:23] kage**
Kanetsugu is fighting one right now in Kyoto.
**[12:31] kage**
* Kanetsugu... follow through*
* with your righteousness.*
**[12:35] kage**
* If you are unable to follow*
* through with your righteousness,*
**[12:38] kage**
*you will just have to fight the Chief Advisor.*
**[12:41] kage**
*Otherwise, Lord Kenshin will laugh at you...*
**[12:46] kage**
*Kanetsugu.*
**[12:56] hide**
So you're saying that
**[12:58] hide**
the righteousness of the Uesugi
is a treasure passed down from Lord Kenshin...
**[13:06] kane**
Like the Lotus that is able to bloom
a beautiful flower from the dirt...
**[13:12] kane**
I would like to think we are
that Lotus within this world
**[13:16] kane**
of Sengoku, the Warring States.
**[13:20] hide**
And that flower is.... righteousness?
**[13:23] kane**
Yes, indeed.
**[13:27] nar**
Kanetsugu's smile was truly kind...
**[13:32] nar**
And...
**[13:37] nar**
Despite never meeting Uesugi Kenshin,
**[13:42] nar**
who was admired as
the Hero Above the Clouds...
**[13:46] nar**
Ieyasu felt as though he had seen him there.
**[13:53] nar**
And Hideyoshi also...
**[14:02] hide**
*This had happened before...*
**[14:07] hide**
*That's right!*
**[14:09] kane**
What to do...
**[14:13] hide**
What do you mean?
**[14:14] kane**
I love my lord.
**[14:17] kane**
Because of that, I made a promise to him
**[14:21] kane**
that we would become a bond for Echigo.
**[14:28] kane**
I cannot break my promise.
**[14:30] kane**
That is what my love means.
**[14:36] kage**
I cannot break that promise, either.
**[14:40] kage**
Therefore, in regards to making
Kanetsugu your retainer...
**[14:44] both**
We decline.
**[14:51] hide**
This...
**[14:54] hide**
This is the same as last time...
**[14:57] hide**
I was... by this wind...
**[15:08] ieyasu**
Your Highness?
**[15:12] ieyasu**
The wind...
**[15:14] ieyasu**
that had previously belonged to Lord Kenshin...
**[15:23] ieyasu**
It is, indeed, as though a Gifuu,
a righteous wind, is blowing...
**[15:33] hide**
Yes...
**[15:36] ieyasu**
Maeda-dono.
**[15:39] ieyasu**
You truly have a wonderful friend.
**[15:46] keiji**
Yes, indeed.
**[16:09] hide**
Maeda Keiji!
**[16:10] hide**
It was a pleasure.
**[16:37] hide**
Were you able to get him?
**[16:41] nar**
Hideyoshi had also seen through
Kanetsugu's murderous intent.
**[16:48] nar**
Kanetsugu was ready to fight with the page.
**[16:52] nar**
Hideyoshi was asking if the page
was able to eliminate that attack.
**[16:59] page**
I do not know.
**[17:01] hide**
Oh?
**[17:02] hide**
You, who is said to be
the best of the Yagyu clan?
**[17:05] page**
If my opponent was a living person,
there would be no problem,
**[17:09] page**
but....
**[17:11] page**
My opponent is a dead man.
**[17:16] nar**
Kanetsugu was a genuine man of war.
**[17:23] nar**
If it was for battle,
**[17:25] nar**
he would immediately
be able to throw his life away
**[17:29] nar**
without trying to protect himself.
**[17:33] nar**
There was no way to block an attack
from such a man with just a sword.
**[17:42] mitsu**
Your Highness...
**[17:45] mitsu**
The lands of the East
are still out of our control.
**[17:48] mitsu**
If Date, Hojo, and Tokugawa
were to band together...
**[17:52] mitsu**
and then, if Uesugi also joined...
**[17:55] mitsu**
the dream of ruling the land will...
**[18:08] hide**
But...
**[18:09] hide**
At this rate, this will
be my losing battle.
**[18:13] hide**
Mitsunari, summon Keiji back for the banquet.
**[18:18] mitsu**
Wh-What do you intend to do?
**[18:24] hide**
I shall present him with
a reward in front of everyone.
**[18:28] hide**
Otherwise, I'll look like a fool.
**[18:38] kane**
Sorry to keep you waiting.
**[18:39] mosuke**
Milord!
**[18:41] mosuke**
Welcome back.
**[18:47] jirobo**
No wonder...
**[18:49] jirobo**
I thought the presence
of the shinobi had disappeared.
**[18:53] mosuke**
But, wow...
**[18:54] mosuke**
That's quite the top knot.
**[18:59] keiji**
Ain't it great?
**[19:01] kane**
Now...
**[19:03] kane**
Let us go home.
**[19:04] someone**
Please wait.
**[19:24] toshi**
His Highness is really something,
isn't he, Tokugawa-dono?
**[19:29] toshi**
Presenting Keiji with a gift...
**[19:32] toshi**
Just thinking about him appearing again...
**[19:36] toshi**
I can't even get drunk.
**[19:41] ieyasu**
You think he's going to appear
in some extremely eccentric fashion again?
**[19:46] toshi**
It's Keiji we're talking about...
**[19:48] toshi**
who knows what he'll do when he gets cocky.
**[20:16] keiji**
Sorry to keep you waiting.
**[20:21] ieyasu**
Matasa-dono, apparently,
your worries were for naught.
**[20:24] ieyasu**
Keiji-dono has presented himself
as a rather admirable samurai.
**[20:38] hide**
Well, now...
**[20:44] hide**
I see... So that's your next eccentric move.
**[20:50] hide**
I've been had.
**[20:57] hide**
Well done on your eccentricity.
**[20:59] hide**
Maeda Keiji, continue to be
as eccentric as your heart desires!
**[21:05] hide**
I shall allow it!
**[21:18] keiji**
Yes, sire. Understood.
**[21:44] hide**
*I see...*
**[21:46] hide**
*It was not Echigo that I desired,*
**[21:51] hide**
*but this wind of righteousness.*
**[21:57] ieyasu**
*Naoe Kanetsugu, eh?*
**[22:00] ieyasu**
*You have touched my heart, as well...*
***SIGN*** Episode 13 The Man of War and the Strategist
**[23:41] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:45] kane**
Episode 13
"The Man of War and the Strategist"
**[23:49] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 13 - The Man of War and the Strategist
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**[00:01] keiji**
*Sorry to keep you waiting.*
**[00:10] hide**
*I've been had.*
**[00:16] hide**
*Well done on your eccentricity.*
**[00:18] hide**
* Maeda Keiji, continue to be*
* as eccentric as your heart desires!*
**[00:24] hide**
*I shall allow it!*
**[00:33] nar**
The character "gi" (righteousness),
combines "oneself" with "sheep."
**[00:36] nar**
"Sheep" is the same as "beauty."
**[00:39] nar**
Therefore, "gi" means
"to make yourself beautiful."
**[00:44] nar**
I repeat.
**[00:46] nar**
"Gi" truly means
"For one to live beautifully."
**[00:57] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[01:03] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[01:07] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** The Man of War and the Strategist
**[02:36] girl**
You're kidding!
**[02:38] girl**
Are you serious?
**[02:39] keiji**
Y-Yeah...
**[02:40] girl**
Are you really Keiji-han?
**[02:40] keiji**
I'm Keiji.
**[02:42] girl**
Very nice.
**[02:43] girl**
I like this version better.
**[02:45] girl**
We'll gladly play with you tonight.
**[02:45] keiji**
Hey, hey, hey...
**[02:47] keiji**
Give me a break.
**[03:03] usu**
You idiot...
**[03:05] usu**
Coming in dressed like that.
**[03:08] usu**
You're quite the sight to the girls here.
**[03:10] keiji**
Yeah, well...
**[03:14] keiji**
More importantly, I wanted to thank you.
**[03:17] usu**
Thank me?
**[03:19] keiji**
Yes.
**[03:21] keiji**
Because you told me about the karawa,
**[03:30] keiji**
I was able to get my way.
**[03:32] usu**
Oh, the thing you said you were
going to show the monkey?
**[03:37] keiji**
Thankfully, I'll be able to relax
in Kyoto for quite a while.
**[03:40] usu**
Really?
**[03:44] usu**
That makes me very happy.
**[03:48] usu**
By the way, where's Naoe-han?
**[03:52] usu**
Weren't you here together?
**[03:54] keiji**
Yeah, he said he had something to do.
**[03:59] keiji**
Right about now, he's probably...
**[04:30] kane**
Mitsunari-dono.
**[04:33] mitsu**
Good news...
**[04:35] mitsu**
Echigo is saved.
**[04:38] kane**
Then...
**[04:40] mitsu**
His Highness just stated that.
**[04:46] hide**
Mitsunari...
**[04:48] hide**
I don't care about Echigo anymore.
**[04:50] mitsu**
Why is that?
**[04:52] hide**
You had previously asked...
**[04:54] hide**
why I had such an interest in Echigo...
**[04:57] mitsu**
Yes, sir.
**[04:59] hide**
At that moment, I wondered why myself.
**[05:06] hide**
And with those two in front of me,
I finally found the answer.
**[05:11] hide**
It appears that it wasn't Echigo I wanted,
**[05:14] hide**
but it was the fact that I had
not given up on Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[05:19] mitsu**
Milord...
**[05:21] hide**
But that doesn't matter now. Because...
**[05:28] hide**
I have you.
**[05:40] kane**
I see...
**[05:43] mitsu**
But...
**[05:47] mitsu**
I don't know how many times
I thought I'd lose my life today.
**[05:51] kane**
But you're here, alive and well.
**[05:54] mitsu**
Both of us are.
**[06:01] kane**
I'd like to thank you again.
**[06:04] kane**
Because of your help,
I was able to protect Echigo.
**[06:08] mitsu**
No... that was all because of you two.
**[06:13] kane**
But I'd like you to tell me one thing.
**[06:17] kane**
Why did you let me know
about this whole thing by letter
**[06:22] kane**
before his Highness
sent out an official order?
**[06:26] mitsu**
That's because...
**[06:29] mitsu**
I can't let you die.
**[06:33] mitsu**
You see... My bond with you
**[06:37] mitsu**
was given to me by Lord Nobunaga.
**[06:40] kane**
Lord Nobunaga?
**[06:42] mitsu**
Indeed.
**[06:44] mitsu**
I believe it was... in the land of Azuchi...
**[06:50] mitsu**
Lord Nobunaga had randomly
shown up at Lord Hideyoshi's mansion.
**[07:25] nobu**
What's this?
**[07:27] saki**
Funazushi, Milord.
**[07:28] nobu**
The famous dish from Konoe?
**[07:30] saki**
I had acquired it from a master
Funazushi chef at the request of my lord.
**[07:44] nobu**
Are you the one named Sakichi?
**[07:48] saki**
M-Milord, you know of me?
**[07:52] nobu**
I've heard from the monkey.
**[07:54] nobu**
It appears that he's proud
to have you as one of his pages.
**[07:58] saki**
I-I am very humbled.
**[08:03] nobu**
He is one that suddenly
came to power from nothing
**[08:05] nobu**
and pulled himself to the top by force.
**[08:07] nobu**
Therefore, he didn't have
any retainers to serve his family.
**[08:12] nobu**
Most of his retainers are those
who used to serve other families.
**[08:18] nobu**
But the monkey found you
and raised you from the ground up.
**[08:22] nobu**
You are a retainer who is like his own child.
**[08:26] nobu**
He is very fond of you.
**[08:31] nobu**
Raise your head.
**[08:46] nobu**
You have eyes that shine very bright.
**[08:49] nobu**
I know of another with eyes like that.
**[08:58] nobu**
Higuchi Yoroku.
**[09:02] kane**
That's...
**[09:04] mitsu**
Indeed.
**[09:05] mitsu**
It was your name.
**[09:08] mitsu**
And...
**[09:11] nobu**
Remember that name.
**[09:14] nobu**
One day, those with similar eyes may meet,
**[09:18] nobu**
and be fated to see the same dream.
**[09:31] kane**
I see...
**[09:36] kane**
Then we...
**[09:38] mitsu**
Lord Nobunaga had brought us together.
**[09:43] kane**
We are now...
**[09:47] kane**
brothers bound by righteousness.
**[09:54] mitsu**
I couldn't ask for more.
**[10:01] keiji**
I see. So it was Lord Nobunaga
who brought you two together...
**[10:06] kane**
Mitsunari-dono and I had
a very strange relationship.
**[10:11] keiji**
It certainly was thanks to him
that everything worked out in the end.
**[10:17] keiji**
No, wait...
**[10:20] keiji**
There was still one person
who didn't agree with the result.
**[10:28] kane**
You're talking about that one man...
**[11:39] ieyasu**
You've arrived, Hanzo.
**[11:44] hanzo**
Yes, Milord.
**[11:46] hanzo**
I am here.
***SIGN*** Hattori Hanzo
**[11:50] nar**
This man...
**[11:52] nar**
Hattori Hanzo Masanari.
**[11:55] nar**
Also called Demon Hanzo,
**[11:57] nar**
was the strong-armed military commander
who governed the Koga and Iga ninja clans.
**[12:02] hanzo**
So... What is it that you need from me?
**[12:06] ieyasu**
Would you find out about Hideyoshi's page
**[12:10] ieyasu**
who was present
at Maeda Keiji's audience?
**[12:14] hanzo**
The page?
**[12:15] ieyasu**
That page looked to be quite skilled.
**[12:22] hanzo**
Then I will make an announcement.
**[12:24] hanzo**
He is Yagyu Muneaki.
**[12:28] hanzo**
The fourth son of Yagyu Sekishusai.
**[12:30] ieyasu**
What?
**[12:35] ieyasu**
So he is the child of Yagyu Sekishusai,
**[12:38] ieyasu**
The man who had inherited the Shinkage-ryu
**[12:40] ieyasu**
from the master swordsman,
Kamiizumi Nobutsuna?
**[12:43] ieyasu**
I heard he is one of the best
the Yagyu has to offer.
**[12:46] hanzo**
His skill is one to be feared...
**[12:52] ieyasu**
Hanzo, why do you know this?
**[12:58] hanzo**
It appears that Maeda Toshiie-dono
**[13:00] hanzo**
had persistently asked
Ishida Mitsunari about him.
**[13:05] ieyasu**
Oh, I see.
**[13:07] ieyasu**
So Maeda-dono had realized it, as well.
**[13:14] ieyasu**
Nothing less from Yari no Mataza.
**[13:20] ieyasu**
But knowing that the page
is from the Yagyu clan,
**[13:27] ieyasu**
it's hard for me to believe that things
would end peacefully with swords undrawn.
**[13:47] mosuke**
Milord, my spear.
**[13:49] kane**
It's fine.
**[13:51] kane**
It's the page of his Highness.
**[13:53] mosuke**
What?!
**[13:54] mosuke**
The Chief Advisor's?!
**[13:55] kane**
What do you need?
**[14:05] mune**
This doesn't sit well with me!
**[14:06] mune**
I can take you down with a single blow!
**[14:10] mune**
I say that with confidence!
**[14:13] mune**
But at that time,
**[14:16] mune**
I was unable to picture your dead face,
no matter how hard I tried!
**[14:24] mune**
That has never happened to me!
**[14:27] mune**
Why is that?
**[14:29] mune**
I want to know why that is!
**[14:35] mune**
Fight me.
**[14:41] kane**
What is your name?
**[14:43] mune**
Yagyu Muneaki.
**[14:47] mosuke**
Y-Yagyu?!
**[14:49] mosuke**
The family of sword masters?
**[14:52] kane**
I see.
**[15:03] mosuke**
Milord.
**[15:04] mosuke**
My spear. Right here.
**[15:09] mosuke**
Huh?
**[15:16] kane**
If you were right there,
**[15:19] kane**
his Highness was about where
that rock is, was he not?
**[15:25] mune**
What of it?
**[15:31] mune**
What?!
**[15:42] mune**
What is the meaning of this...
**[15:49] kane**
You wouldn't have been able
to protect his Highness, after all.
**[15:55] mune**
What do you mean?!
**[15:58] kane**
At that time...
**[16:00] kane**
It appeared that you thought
it was my duty to attack you...
**[16:07] kane**
But if that was Keiji-dono...
**[16:13] mune**
What?
**[16:14] kane**
He is a tiger.
**[16:17] kane**
If your opponent was a tiger...
**[16:20] mune**
I-Impossible...
**[16:24] nar**
At that moment...
**[16:27] nar**
Muneaki had seen everything.
**[16:32] nar**
It's true that, at the time, Kanetsugu's
murderous intent was being pointed at him.
**[16:39] nar**
But...
**[16:43] nar**
the one Kanetsugu leapt for was Hideyoshi,
**[16:48] nar**
the one he was supposed
to protect, and not him.
**[16:53] nar**
And then Muneaki feels an intense impact.
**[17:28] mune**
Then...
**[17:30] mune**
What about that murderous intent?!
**[17:31] mune**
What of the intense murderous intent
that you were pointing towards me?!
**[17:34] kane**
It was just a diversion to distract you.
**[17:38] mune**
That's a lie!
**[17:40] mune**
Then how could you have possibly
told Maeda-dono about that diversion?
**[17:44] mune**
Are you mocking me?!
**[17:49] sakon**
Muneaki!
**[17:50] sakon**
You are being rude!
**[18:05] sakon**
That would be quite easy for
Maeda-dono and Naoe Kanetsugu-dono.
**[18:12] mune**
What?!
**[18:13] sakon**
They are both genuine men of war.
**[18:16] mune**
Men of war?
**[18:18] sakon**
There is an infinite variety of men of war.
**[18:21] sakon**
They are demons whose
forms are everchanging.
**[18:25] sakon**
Demons like that cannot fit
without having their alpha and omega.
**[18:34] mune**
B-But that's...
**[18:43] sakon**
It is foolish to compare
strategists and men of war.
**[19:00] mosuke**
Th-This guy's amazing!
**[19:06] sakon**
If you still don't understand,
I will be more than happy to fight you.
**[19:18] mune**
It is true that place was,
indeed, a battlefield.
**[19:26] mune**
It appears that I would have lost.
**[19:34] kane**
And...
**[19:36] kane**
Who might you be?
**[19:39] sakon**
The chief retainer of Ishida Mitsunari.
**[19:41] sakon**
My name is Shima Sakon.
***SIGN*** Shima Sakon
**[19:47] kane**
Mitsunari-dono's?
**[19:49] sakon**
Indeed.
**[19:50] sakon**
I had brought you a message from my lord:
**[19:54] sakon**
"Hurry back to Echigo and prepare for war."
**[19:59] sakon**
We are attacking Odawara.
**[20:04] kane**
So the big battle with the Hojo
is finally about to begin.
**[20:13] sakon**
It's more amusing when
you fight big opponents.
**[20:16] kane**
Indeed!
**[20:18] kane**
But before that...
**[20:21] kane**
Muneaki-dono had come
all this way to fight me.
**[20:27] kane**
I have some fine sake from Echigo.
**[20:29] kane**
Why don't we battle with that?
**[20:32] mune**
Wha?!
**[20:39] mune**
Then we shall have
Shima-sama as the witness.
**[20:43] mune**
With sake, both men of war
and strategists can fight.
**[20:52] sakon**
All right. I accept.
**[20:55] kane**
Well, then...
**[21:01] nar**
After this, Muneaki would
change lords many times.
**[21:07] nar**
And, in the end, he joined an uprising
against the one who killed his master
**[21:16] nar**
and righteously struck down eighteen men
before being gunned down himself.
**[21:23] nar**
And Sakon was another man of righteousness.
**[21:28] nar**
After this, invited by Mitsunari,
he became one of his higher-ranking officials,
**[21:31] nar**
and at the end, disappeared,
like a mist, in Sekigahara.
**[21:37] nar**
That was his righteousness
to Ishida Mitsunari.
**[21:48] nar**
The audience with Hideyoshi that held
Echigo's fate in the balance ends here.
**[21:57] keiji**
And...
**[22:04] both**
A brand new story begins!
***SIGN*** Episode 14 Drinks and Conversations of Men
**[23:40] both**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*...
**[23:44] both**
Substituting for them are
**[23:44] mosu**
Mosuke and
**[23:45] jirobo**
Jirobo.
**[23:46] kane**
Episode 14
"Drinks and Conversations of Men"
**[23:51] kane**
Next time, we'll be discussing this together!
# 14 - Drinks and Conversations of Men
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G6NQJ2ZZ6/gifu-dodo-kanetsugu-and-keiji)
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**[00:02] mosuke**
Good evening, moon.
**[00:04] mosuke**
Why don't you keep us
company tonight as we drink?
**[00:08] mosuke**
And...
**[00:10] mosuke**
Why don't we talk a while?
**[00:12] jiro**
Indeed. Let's.
**[00:14] jiro**
Let us talk and drink
to our hearts' content
**[00:18] jiro**
about the tales of our lord,
**[00:23] jiro**
the very righteous
Naoe Kanetsugu-dono.
**[00:34] nar**
The character "gi" (righteousness),
combines "oneself" with "sheep."
**[00:38] nar**
"Sheep" is the same as "beauty."
**[00:41] nar**
Therefore, "gi" means
"to make yourself beautiful."
**[00:46] nar**
I repeat.
**[00:48] nar**
"Gi" truly means
"For one to live beautifully."
**[00:59] nar**
Two eccentrics enter battle.
**[01:05] nar**
Dazzling Sengoku Period Story:
Kanetsugu and Keiji.
**[01:09] nar**
Gifuu Doudou!!
***SIGN*** Drinks and Conversations of Men
**[02:32] mosuke**
Come now, Jirobo.
**[02:35] mosuke**
One more!
**[02:36] mosuke**
One more drink!
**[02:37] jiro**
Why, thank you.
**[02:40] both**
Whoa, there.
**[02:42] mosuke**
Whoa?
**[02:49] jiro**
Though we're not celebrating
anything in particular,
**[02:50] jiro**
this is celebratory sake!
**[02:53] mosuke**
Indeed, it is.
**[02:56] mosuke**
Celebratory sake for our lives
lasting a little longer.
**[02:59] mosuke**
Considering the fact that we were
able to come back from the audience
**[03:03] mosuke**
with the Chief Advisor,
Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
**[03:05] jiro**
This time, I was definitely
fearing that it'd be the end.
**[03:11] jiro**
Considering everything
relied on the one and only,
**[03:15] jiro**
the unrivaled eccentric,
**[03:20] jiro**
Maeda Keiji.
**[03:22] mosuke**
Indeed.
**[03:23] mosuke**
It could be said that meeting
him was the end of our luck.
**[03:54] kane**
Mosuke!
**[04:07] mosuke**
No way!
**[04:09] mosuke**
From that distance?
**[04:16] kane**
We'll just have to return the favor.
**[04:20] big**
He's trying to do the same
thing as Maeda-dono!
**[04:23] big**
Laughable!
**[04:29] big**
You fool!
**[04:31] big**
Like it'd reach!
**[04:32] big**
Know your place!
**[04:35] keiji**
That's not entirely true.
**[04:46] big**
It's in me!
**[04:52] keiji**
Not bad.
**[04:53] keiji**
The "Love" Crest...
**[04:55] keiji**
That is indeed the Uesugi clan's
strategist, Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[05:00] mosuke**
They were once enemies shooting
arrows at each other.
**[05:04] jiro**
But then in 1588...
**[05:09] both**
Their reunion will lead to them
being called the best of friends.
***SIGN*** Uwanariuchi
**[05:18] dude**
On this day, the 24th of July...
**[05:24] jiro**
Uwanariuchi is a fight among women
**[05:28] jiro**
when a husband remarries
another woman
**[05:31] jiro**
within a month of his divorce.
**[05:34] mosuke**
The first wife gathers helpers
**[05:36] mosuke**
and then barges into the
**[05:38] mosuke**
second wife's kitchen,
wielding wooden swords.
**[05:41] mosuke**
But of course, the second wife
isn't going to take this lying down,
**[05:44] mosuke**
so she gathers helpers, and they
wield wooden swords of their own
**[05:47] mosuke**
for an all-out brawl.
**[05:49] jiro**
However, a third party
is normally called
**[05:50] jiro**
to get in the middle of this
**[05:53] jiro**
and pays the first wife
a suitable amount of money
**[05:56] jiro**
to try to get her to leave.
**[06:00] mosuke**
However...
**[06:03] mosuke**
The helper that the second wife
**[06:04] mosuke**
had hired was an imposter who
was using Keiji-dono's name.
**[06:08] jiro**
Of course, Lord Kanetsugu
didn't stay quiet and
**[06:12] kane**
Now, let's see it!
**[06:12] jiro**
when he tried to
teach him a lesson...
**[06:15] kane**
Your righteousness
towards these men!
**[06:19] mosuke**
Hearing what happened,
Keiji-dono arrived, as well.
**[06:26] both**
Of course, that meant
someone had to pay.
**[06:30] fake**
Maeda Keiji?!
**[06:32] fake**
Th-The real one!
**[06:34] fake**
Damn it!
**[06:49] keiji**
You're not worth rusting my spear.
**[06:52] kane**
Indeed, he is not worth it.
**[06:59] hachi**
I-Is he dead?!
**[07:04] guy**
It's as if a tiger just struck...
**[07:09] keiji**
Naoe-dono, it's been a while since
the battle at Kasugayama Castle.
**[07:16] kane**
Maeda Keiji-dono.
**[07:18] keiji**
I know what's going on.
**[07:20] keiji**
Do as you please.
**[07:23] kane**
You...
**[07:24] kane**
Hear me!
**[07:26] kane**
This is not an uwanariuchi!
**[07:29] kane**
It is a battle of life or death!
**[07:32] kane**
Therefore, we will not be involved.
**[07:35] kane**
I, Naoe, and Maeda-dono
shall observe.
**[07:38] kane**
Fight to your heart's content!
**[07:41] mosuke**
No, no, no!
**[07:44] mosuke**
It's already bad enough
with just one of them,
**[07:47] mosuke**
but when those two are together,
the craziness would increases exponentially.
**[07:51] mosuke**
Because of that, we really
almost died in Sado.
**[07:55] jiro**
Indeed!
**[07:56] bg**
The Honma clan of Sado
kept repeating their internal strife
**[07:57] jiro**
That was all part of the Chief Advisor's
plan to take Echigo from the Uesugi.
**[07:59] bg**
and refused to listen to any
mediation from you.
**[08:07] jiro**
He was trying to make
the point that if the Uesugi
**[08:09] jiro**
couldn't mediate the fighting
between the clans in Sado,
**[08:11] jiro**
that they had no right
to control Echigo.
**[08:16] mosuke**
On top of that,
**[08:18] mosuke**
the Honma clan that was divided
north and south on Sado
**[08:21] mosuke**
were in on Hideyoshi's plan and
pretended to fight each other.
**[08:25] jiro**
Southern Sado would attack
any with the Uesugi flag,
**[08:29] jiro**
but would ignore the
flags of Northern Sado.
**[08:32] fuji**
We shall take care of them
in a single blow!
**[08:43] mosuke**
But our lord went into the enemy
camp to quickly stop the battle.
**[08:52] keiji**
Take that!
**[08:58] seion**
Show these men no mercy!
**[09:03] nuns**
Yes, Milady!
**[09:12] sub**
M-Milord!
**[09:14] sub**
The South's army
is being destroyed,
**[09:16] sub**
and the Uesugi army
is heading our way.
**[09:19] sub**
What shall we do?
**[09:20] sub**
Please decide!
**[09:26] fat**
All troops attack the southern army!
**[09:29] sub**
But, Milord, that's—
**[09:31] fat**
I will not assist a crippled army.
**[09:34] fat**
So we shall strike and destroy
the South's army before Uesugi gets to them!
**[09:39] fat**
That is the only way
we will survive!
**[09:48] taka**
Takatsuna!
**[09:49] taka**
You betrayed us!
**[09:51] fat**
Shut up!
**[09:52] fat**
Sado is all mine!
**[09:58] fat**
What?
**[10:04] kane**
The winners and losers
have been determined in this battle.
**[10:07] kane**
Consequently, there is no need
for any more pointless bloodshed.
**[10:12] kane**
Let those, both North and South,
**[10:14] kane**
who pledge allegiance
to the Uesugi clan, surrender now!
**[10:17] kane**
However, if there are
still those who oppose...
**[10:20] kane**
I, Naoe Kanetsugu...
**[10:22] keiji**
And I, Maeda Keiji...
**[10:29] both**
Shall become fierce dragons
and confront you with righteousness!
**[11:22] jiro**
Nothing less from two men of
battle who work so well together.
**[11:25] bg hide**
At this rate, there's nowhere
I can go to overpower Uesugi!
**[11:26] jiro**
The Chief Advisor's plot
was completely destroyed.
**[11:29] bg hide**
Taking over Echigo will
have to wait for another time!
**[11:33] jiro**
However, there was one man who
cornered our invincible lord,
**[11:36] jiro**
leading him to almost
take his own life.
**[11:41] jiro**
That was none other than...
**[11:43] jiro**
the man who believed in unifying
the country, Lord Oda Nobunaga.
**[12:06] nobu**
How about it,
**[12:07] nobu**
Shindou?
**[12:08] shin**
Y-Yes...
**[12:12] shin**
Without a doubt.
**[12:19] nobu**
Those tears can't be helped.
**[12:23] nobu**
Higuchi Yoroku!
**[12:24] nobu**
I shall give that fan to you!
**[12:27] nobu**
Take it with you to Echigo.
**[12:30] kane**
Thank you, I am honored—
**[12:32] nobu**
Take good care of it.
**[12:34] nobu**
That is a keepsake of your mother's.
**[12:37] kane**
My mother's?
**[12:41] nobu**
That's right.
**[12:43] nobu**
The younger sister of the former
Chief Advisor, Konoe Sakihisa,
**[12:46] nobu**
Princess Tae, is your mother.
**[12:49] kane**
B-But...
**[12:53] nobu**
Do you not believe me?
**[12:54] kane**
Indeed...
**[12:55] nobu**
Then quickly go back to Echigo...
**[12:58] nobu**
and ask for yourself...
who your real father is.
**[13:03] kane**
M-My real father?
**[13:07] mosuke**
Moon, you may have been observing
**[13:12] mosuke**
the fact that many had shed
blood and tears because of this.
**[13:20] mosuke**
The gift that Lord Nobunaga
gave to Echigo...
**[13:23] mosuke**
That was...
**[13:28] mosuke**
It was a trap to seal the
Uesugi clan within Echigo,
**[13:31] [SONG] sign red**
Borrowed from Keiji, without permission.
***SIGN*** Borrowed from Keiji, secretly.
***SIGN*** Borrowed from Keiji, by lying to him.
***SIGN*** Borrowed from Keiji, without telling him.
**[13:31] mosuke**
and destroy their dream
of unifying the land.
**[13:37] mosuke**
Because of that, our lord threw
himself away, for the sake of righteousness.
**[13:45] kane**
Sentouin-sama.
**[13:48] kane**
My father is Higuchi Souemon,
without a doubt.
**[13:53] sou**
Yoroku...
**[13:55] kane**
Therefore, I would like to know
exactly how I became Souemon's child.
**[14:06] sen**
All right...
**[14:08] sen**
Since you have that
resolve, I shall tell you.
**[14:23] kage**
A baby?
**[14:25] kono**
This baby was born from Kagetora-dono
and Tae, my late younger sister.
**[14:33] kage**
Wh-What?!
**[14:35] kono**
This is the true proof
of my blood oath.
**[14:40] kage**
*Th-That's impossible...*
**[14:43] kono**
There we go.
**[14:46] kono**
There, there.
**[14:50] kono**
You look just like
Kagetora-dono, don't you?
**[14:55] kono**
There...
**[15:13] kage**
Did you hear what was just said?
**[15:25] kage**
Forgive me...
but this is for Echigo.
**[15:47] kage**
In Echigo...
**[15:50] kage**
even the retainers believe Kagetora-sama
is the avatar of Bishamonten.
**[15:55] kage**
Because of that,
our hearts are as one.
**[16:02] kage**
And you're saying that despite his oath
of celibacy to the gods and Buddha,
**[16:07] kage**
he had a child with the younger sister
of the Chief Advisor in the shadows...
**[16:12] kono**
What are you saying
I should do, then?
**[16:14] kage**
If a war were to start in Echigo,
**[16:17] kage**
the dream that you share with
Kagetora-sama will never come to pass!
**[16:24] kage**
I, Naoe Kagetsuna,
shall take that baby.
**[16:32] sen**
After I heard what had
happened from Kagetsuna,
**[16:38] sen**
I ended up relying on Souemon,
**[16:41] sen**
as he is who I was closest with and
so could be trusted with this secret.
**[16:49] sou**
We are stationed here
in the mountains year-round,
**[16:54] sou**
therefore, no one would be suspicious
if we suddenly had a baby.
**[17:04] sou**
Very well.
**[17:05] sou**
I, Higuchi Souemon,
shall guard this child with my life.
**[17:16] kane**
But in that case, I should have
just been abandoned...
**[17:20] kane**
No...
**[17:21] kane**
I should have been killed.
**[17:24] kane**
Then Nobunaga wouldn't be taking advantage
of this situation in his quest for Echigo.
**[17:30] sen**
Do you think that Omijou-sama
**[17:32] sen**
swore an oath of celibacy
because he wanted to?
**[17:36] kane**
W-Well...
**[17:39] sen**
For Echigo, he had no children.
**[17:42] sen**
He didn't know about
the happiness of normal people,
**[17:44] sen**
and was left to carry
everything upon his shoulders.
**[17:46] sen**
Why would I let the child
of my younger brother be abandoned?
**[17:56] kane**
S-Sentouin-sama...
**[18:03] sen**
If I were to abandon you,
**[18:04] sen**
though the people may forgive me,
the heavens would not.
**[18:10] sen**
This was the righteousness of myself,
Kagetsuna, and Souemon.
**[18:15] kane**
So, you're saying that the reason I lived
was because of righteousness?
**[18:22] sen**
Indeed.
**[18:24] sen**
You are the child of
our righteousness.
**[18:35] kane**
I am the child...
**[18:37] kane**
of your righteousness.
**[18:43] mosuke**
But at the time,
**[18:45] mosuke**
the loyalty between daimyos and
their retainers was vague.
**[18:49] mosuke**
Despite being retainers,
**[18:50] mosuke**
if they were not able
to protect their territory,
**[18:53] mosuke**
they threw away their masters.
**[18:54] jiro**
And the people of Echigo were
very passionate about their territory.
**[19:01] jiro**
Because of that, even Lord Kenshin
had to become a god.
**[19:06] jiro**
Swearing a lifetime of celibacy,
becoming the avatar of Bishamonten,
**[19:12] jiro**
he became a god of war,
winning every one of his battles,
**[19:15] jiro**
and his retainers finally swore loyalty to him.
**[19:19] mosuke**
However, if Lord Kenshin
was no longer a god...
**[19:25] ken**
Behold, Yoroku, that moon...
**[19:29] ken**
At first glance, it looks beautiful,
**[19:31] ken**
but if the night sky only had
the moon alone, it would be dull.
**[19:34] ken**
It is the clouds the moon shines upon
that make it appear so elegant.
**[19:40] kane**
But...
**[19:41] kane**
If the clouds get in the way
of the moonlight,
**[19:44] kane**
there is only darkness.
**[19:45] kane**
No elegance or anything else.
**[20:02] kane**
Omijou-sama, do you remember
this folding fan?
**[20:07] ken**
There is no way I can forget it.
**[20:10] ken**
That folding fan belonged
to Princess Tae...
**[20:13] ken**
And...
**[20:14] kane**
And?
**[20:18] ken**
It is the fan of the woman
who I loved the most.
**[20:25] kane**
Omijou-sama...
**[20:32] both**
Nothing less from Lord Kenshin.
**[20:34] both**
He managed to laugh off
Lord Nobunaga's trap.
**[20:38] mosuke**
The two were very much alike.
**[20:42] jiro**
Not to mention, if you happened
to anger our lord...
**[21:13] fat**
What?
**[21:19] mosuke**
Because of that, there was no doubt
about who our lord was related to.
**[21:22] mosuke**
It would eventually be found out
that they were father and son.
**[21:26] mosuke**
Huh?
**[21:30] mosuke**
I'm sorry!
**[21:31] mosuke**
Please forgive me!
**[21:31] mosuke**
I won't say anymore!
**[21:32] mosuke**
This is top secret among the Uesugi!
**[21:34] mosuke**
I won't speak of it again!
**[21:35] mosuke**
So please, just spare my life!
**[21:38] mosuke**
Oh, is that fire real?
**[21:41] jiro**
Yep.
**[21:44] mosuke**
Are you all right, Jirobo?
**[21:46] mosuke**
Hey!
**[21:47] mosuke**
The fire's out now.
**[21:48] mosuke**
Wake up!
**[21:49] mosuke**
It's your turn to talk next!
**[21:51] mosuke**
Poor Jirobo...
**[21:53] mosuke**
Are you okay?
**[21:54] mosuke**
Come on, tell us of the tragic
and lonely life of the shinobi.
**[21:57] mosuke**
Otherwise, I'm going to tell you
"Mosuke's Righteousness:
**[21:59] mosuke**
The Story of the Spear-bearer."
**[22:02] mosuke**
Come on!
**[22:02] mosuke**
Come on!
**[22:03] mosuke**
Come on!
**[22:03] mosuke**
Wake up!
**[22:04] mosuke**
Hurry and wake up!
**[22:05] mosuke**
The siege of Odawara awaits us!
**[22:06] mosuke**
Our troubles are
just about to begin!
***SIGN*** Episode 15 The Virtue of Otani Yoshitsugu
**[23:41] Kane**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:45] kane**
Episode 15
"The Virtue of Otani Yoshitsugu."
**[23:49] kane**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 15 - The Virtue of Otani Yoshitsugu
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G6NQJ2ZZ6/gifu-dodo-kanetsugu-and-keiji)
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**[00:03] Suibara**
Faster!
**[00:06] Suibara**
Have we got enough arrows?
**[00:09] Suibara**
Swords, armors...
Bring them all out! Hurry!
**[00:12] Suibara**
Remember Tanegashima!
**[00:16] Suibara**
Don't forget our supplies, either!
**[00:22] Fujita**
Suibara-dono is fired up
for the coming battle.
**[00:27] Kagekatsu**
Yes, he did have to sit out
the attack on Sado.
**[00:32] Kagekatsu**
He must be itching for battle.
**[00:34] Suibara**
Whoops! Over there!
***SIGN*** Suibara Chikanori
**[00:38] Nar**
Suibara Chikanori.
**[00:40] Nar**
During the legendary
fourth battle of Kawanakajima,
**[00:45] Nar**
though it was his first campaign,
he demonstrated outstanding prowess in battle,
**[00:48] Nar**
and Kenshin promoted him to the high rank
of chief vassal of the Uesugi clan.
**[00:53] Fujita**
Hm... I don't see Naoe-dono around.
**[00:59] Kagekatsu**
Knowing Kanetsugu before combat,
he's probably at...
**[01:04] Keiji VO**
Unto-an?
**[01:06] Keiji**
Isn't that...
**[01:08] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[01:10] Kanetsugu**
It was the temple where Kagekatsu and
I trained, by command of Lord Kenshin,
**[01:15] Kanetsugu**
back during the days of my youth,
when I was still called Yoroku.
**[01:19] Kanetsugu**
I met a man there who
I'll never forget as long as I live.
**[01:25] Keiji**
A man you'll never forget?
**[01:28] Kanetsugu**
A sworn friend to Ishida-dono,
his best vassal, second to none.
**[01:31] Keiji**
The one who died at Sekigahara,
**[01:35] Keiji VO**
The Justice Minister
Otani Yoshitsugu?
**[01:39] Kanetsugu VO**
Yes.
**[01:41] Kanetsugu**
He sought nothing for himself,
and died selflessly for his friend.
**[01:46] Kanetsugu VO**
That man.
***SIGN*** The Virtue of Otani Yoshitsugu
**[03:27] Mosuke**
Brings back memories.
**[03:29] Mosuke**
The temple hasn't changed a bit.
**[03:32] Mosuke**
You know when I was very young,
**[03:35] Mosuke**
I was sent here from another
province to do training.
**[03:38] Kanetsugu**
Oh?
**[03:39] Mosuke**
The training was so rigid
I fled in the middle of the night.
**[03:45] Mosuke**
I've been wandering ever since.
**[03:47] Mosuke**
Huh?
**[03:54] Mosuke**
Yeah, yeah.
I remember this stone floor.
**[03:57] Mosuke**
I remember this...
**[04:02] Boy Mosuke**
C-Cold... It's so c-cold...
**[04:07] Boy Mosuke**
At least I don't have to do
that training anymore.
**[04:12] Boy Mosuke**
Hm? Huh?
**[04:15] Boy Mosuke**
Wh-What the...
**[04:18] Boy Mosuke VO**
Hey, you!
**[04:20] Boy Mosuke**
What are you doing?
**[04:24] Boy Yoroku**
What am I doing?
**[04:25] Boy Yoroku**
I heard there's a stone engraving
**[04:26] Boy Yoroku**
of the Dharma Flower Sutra
buried under this stone floor...
**[04:29] Boy Yoroku**
That's why they say it's meritorious
to walk the grounds of this Unto-an Temple.
**[04:33] Boy Yoroku**
I'm going to find out if it's really here.
**[04:35] Boy Mosuke**
Stop it! You'll get yourself cursed!
**[04:37] Boy Yoroku**
I'm not going to get cursed!
**[04:39] Boy Mosuke**
Huh?
**[04:40] Boy Yoroku**
Look.
**[04:41] Boy Yoroku**
You don't know fire's hot till you touch it.
**[04:44] Boy Yoroku**
And you can't tell the truth from a lie
until you see it with your own eyes.
**[04:49] Boy Mosuke**
Yeah, right.
**[04:49] Boy Mosuke**
Keep it up, and you'll go to Hell for it.
**[04:53] Boy Yoroku**
You can't call yourself a warrior
and be afraid of Hell.
**[04:56] Boy Yoroku**
And if I wind up there,
I'll just have to behead the king of Hell!
**[04:58] Boy Mosuke**
Huh?
**[05:03] Mosuke**
That's what he said...
That brat was out of control.
**[05:07] Mosuke**
What was his name...
**[05:09] Kanetsugu**
It was Yoroku.
**[05:10] Mosuke**
Right, right! Yoroku!
**[05:12] Mosuke**
The brat's name was Yoroku!
**[05:15] Mosuke**
Huh?
**[05:16] Mosuke**
Wasn't Yoroku...
**[05:18] Kanetsugu**
That was me.
**[05:20] Kanetsugu**
You're talking about me.
**[05:22] Mosuke**
What?!
**[05:29] Mosuke**
You and I've known each other since then?
**[05:33] Kanetsugu**
So what?
**[05:34] Kanetsugu**
I've always known that
was you from way back then.
**[05:37] Mosuke**
No way.
**[05:40] Mosuke**
Whoops?
**[05:44] Boy**
May I receive merit.
**[05:45] Boy**
May I receive merit.
**[05:52] Mosuke**
What was that all about?
**[06:12] Yoshitsugu VO**
You...
**[06:14] Yoshitsugu**
What was your wish for?
**[06:16] Yoshitsugu**
Was it for food?
**[06:18] Yoshitsugu**
For clothing?
**[06:20] Boy**
No.
**[06:21] Boy**
My mother's sick
and has become blind.
**[06:25] Boy**
I feel sorry for her.
**[06:28] Boy**
So I wished for her to be cured.
**[06:30] Boy**
So she can see again.
**[06:34] Yoshitsugu**
I see.
**[06:37] Boy**
Mister...
**[06:40] Boy**
Mister, are you blind, too?
**[06:43] Boy**
Want me to make a wish for you, too, Mister?
**[06:45] Yoshitsugu**
I just have a wart on my eye. That's all.
**[06:49] Boy**
Oh...
**[06:50] Yoshitsugu**
But you are very kind.
**[06:54] Yoshitsugu**
You think of others instead of yourself.
**[06:58] Yoshitsugu**
You possess the heart of benevolence.
**[07:01] Boy**
Benevolence?
**[07:04] Yoshitsugu**
Kannon-sama, must have brought us together.
**[07:08] Yoshitsugu**
If you ever get the chance,
**[07:11] Yoshitsugu**
bring this coat with you,
and come visit me at Tsuruga Castle.
**[07:15] Boy**
Who are you, Mister?
**[07:17] Yoshitsugu**
Just ask for the man
with the wart on his eye.
**[07:20] Boy**
I will.
**[07:21] Boy**
Thanks!
**[07:38] Kanetsugu**
My name is Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[07:44] Kanetsugu**
I saw your family crest,
the butterflies of Tsuruga Castle.
**[07:47] Kanetsugu**
Do you work with Magistrate Toyotomi?
**[07:50] Yoshitsugu**
I am the Justice Minister,
Otani Yoshitsugu.
***SIGN*** Otani Yoshitsugu
**[07:54] Nar**
In that very same year,
**[07:57] Nar**
Otani Yoshitsugu had become
the lord of Tsuruga Castle.
**[08:02] Nar**
He received a stipend of 500 koku.
**[08:05] Nar**
Along with Ishida Mitsunari,
he was Hideyoshi's beloved retainer.
**[08:08] Nar**
Although young,
**[08:09] Nar**
he was placed in charge
of the Toyotomi government's
**[08:12] Nar**
important magistrate duties.
**[08:14] Kanetsugu**
But what are you doing at a place like this?
**[08:18] Yoshitsugu**
I was...
**[08:21] Yoshitsugu**
waiting for you to arrive.
**[08:25] Yoshitsugu**
I went to Uesugi's residence first,
but you had already left.
**[08:31] Yoshitsugu**
And that's where I was told...
**[08:34] Yoshitsugu**
that before a battle, Naoe-dono always
**[08:37] Yoshitsugu**
visits his boyhood temple of Unto-an.
**[08:42] Kanetsugu**
So you rode your horse
all the way here, just to see me...
**[08:46] Kanetsugu**
but for someone of your rank to come
see me, there must be official business.
**[08:51] Yoshitsugu**
It concerns Odawara.
***SIGN*** Odawara Castle
**[08:58] Nar**
Fourth generation lord
of the Hojo clan, Ujimasa.
***SIGN*** Ujimasa
**[09:03] Nar**
Fifth generation lord, Ujinao ...
***SIGN*** Ujinao
**[09:07] Nar**
and Ujinao's uncle, Ujinori.
***SIGN*** Ujinori
**[09:11] Nar**
Ujinori once lived with Tokugawa Ieyasu,
a fellow hostage, at Imagawa.
**[09:20] Nar**
Because he was a superior diplomat,
**[09:23] Nar**
he had an objective and clear
understanding of Toyotomi's abilities.
**[09:27] Nar**
This is how it all began.
**[09:32] Nar**
Hojo led a minor skirmish
against the territory of the Sanada clan.
**[09:38] Nar**
Due to Hideyoshi's mediation,
the battle was stalled.
**[09:43] Nar**
Shortly thereafter,
Hojo invaded Nagurumi Castle.
***SIGN*** Nagurumi Castle
**[09:49] Nar**
This was in violation of the edict forbidding
**[09:53] Nar**
personal infighting among the daimyos.
**[09:55] Nar**
As such, Hideyoshi decided
to attack Odawara Castle.
**[10:00] Nar**
And...
**[10:02] Ujinori**
Why?!
**[10:04] Ujinori**
Why did you attack
Sanada's Nagurumi Castle?
**[10:07] Ujinao**
Because I wanted all their rice fields.
**[10:11] Ujinori**
Idiocy!
**[10:13] Ujinori**
Both of you were supposed
to go to the capital,
**[10:15] Ujinori**
and render your service
to Hideyoshi as vassals!
**[10:17] Ujinori**
That was the condition
of Hideyoshi's promise:
**[10:20] Ujinori**
to persuade Sanada to hand over
their rice fields to Hojo.
**[10:22] Ujinori VO**
He promised to leave
Nagurumi Castle untouched,
**[10:25] Ujinori VO**
because it stands on
Sanada's ancestral land!
**[10:29] Ujinori**
That's why Sanada was going to comply!
**[10:32] Ujinori**
But look what you've done!
**[10:35] Ujinori**
It's because of this that Hideyoshi will...
**[10:37] Ujimasa VO**
Huh?
**[10:39] Ujimasa**
Huh?
**[10:41] Ujimasa**
Ujinori.
**[10:42] Ujimasa**
Hey, Ujinori.
**[10:44] Ujimasa**
Don't worry about it.
**[10:47] Ujimasa**
We are fully prepared.
**[10:51] Ujimasa**
Our Odawara Castle is protected
by many solid fortresses.
**[10:58] Ujimasa VO**
Even if Hideyoshi storms us
with 50,000 or even 100,000 troops...
**[11:05] Ujimasa**
our castle will never be overtaken.
**[11:08] Ujimasa**
Remember Kenshin?
**[11:11] Ujimasa**
Even he had to retreat
with his tail between his legs.
**[11:15] Ujinori**
But Hideyoshi is...
**[11:19] Ujimasa**
Ujinori.
**[11:21] Ujimasa**
You worry too much.
**[11:26] Ujinao**
Uncle, you're more cowardly than I thought.
**[11:56] Yoshitsugu**
Naoe-dono.
**[11:59] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[12:00] Yoshitsugu**
Depending on Uesugi's move,
this next battle could shake the nation.
**[12:08] Yoshitsugu**
Which is why...
**[12:10] Yoshitsugu**
I want to know Uesugi's
position on the matter.
**[12:15] Kanetsugu**
Our... position?
**[12:17] Yoshitsugu**
Indeed.
**[12:18] Yoshitsugu**
The Senior Regent intends to subjugate
Hojo with an army of unprecedented size.
**[12:26] Yoshitsugu (back turned)**
However, even with a large
army of the finest troops,
**[12:30] Yoshitsugu (back turned)**
Odawara is unaccustomed
to the battlefield...
**[12:33] Yoshitsugu**
In order to attack the Kanto area,
**[12:36] Yoshitsugu**
we need the aid of Tokugawa and Uesugi
**[12:40] Yoshitsugu**
and Date of Oshu who know the terrain.
**[12:43] Yoshitsugu**
But we have not heard back from Date,
if he'll agree to battle.
**[12:49] Yoshitsugu**
If worse comes to worse,
**[12:52] Yoshitsugu**
we must ask Lord Uesugi
to confront both Hojo and Date.
**[12:59] Kanetsugu**
In other words...
**[13:01] Nar**
Kanetsugu understood Otani's implication.
**[13:07] Nar**
In other words, if Date
would not agree to battle...
**[13:10] Nar**
and if Uesugi also decided to revolt,
**[13:15] Nar**
a major civil war could break
out between east and west,
**[13:20] Nar**
against Uesugi first, then Hojo, and Date.
**[13:24] Nar**
And because the battle would
take place in the Kanto area,
**[13:28] Nar**
his army would be at a disadvantage.
**[13:31] Nar**
Due to these circumstances,
**[13:32] Nar**
the impending situation could hinder
Hideyoshi's plan for national unification.
**[13:37] Nar**
Therefore, depending on his answer,
**[13:38] Nar**
Uesugi might well be considered an enemy...
**[13:43] Nar**
This was the implication.
**[13:56] Kanetsugu**
Otani-dono.
**[13:58] Kanetsugu**
Your eye...
**[14:05] Kanetsugu VO**
A sword wound.
**[14:07] Kanetsugu**
A fresh wound.
**[14:11] Yoshitsugu**
Naoe-dono.
**[14:12] Yoshitsugu**
I ask you again.
**[14:14] Yoshitsugu**
And I implore you to speak truthfully.
**[14:19] Yoshitsugu**
My right eye only sees
outward appearances...
**[14:25] Yoshitsugu**
but my left eye can see
into the depth of your soul.
**[14:35] Keiji VO**
Well...
**[14:36] Keiji (back turned)**
the eye that sees into the depth of the soul.
**[14:42] Kanetsugu**
Everything was explained
in the letter from Mitsunari-dono.
**[14:46] Mitsunari VO**
Yoshitsugu will probably
hesitate to tell you himself
**[14:50] Mitsunari VO**
about what happened to his eye ...
**[14:53] Mitsunari VO**
but he and I are on a first-name basis:
Heima and Sakichi.
**[15:00] Mitsunari VO**
There are no secrets between us,
just like you and I, Kanetsugu-dono.
**[15:03] Mitsunari VO**
Therefore, I'll also let you know...
**[15:08] Kanetsugu VO**
According to the letter, Otani-dono
**[15:12] Kanetsugu**
gouged out his own left eye,
and gave it to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
**[15:18] Keiji**
To Ieyasu?
**[15:20] Kanetsugu**
Before coming to see me at Echigo,
Otani went to Sunpu,
**[15:25] Kanetsugu**
to inform Lord Tokugawa
of the orders to attack Hojo.
**[15:30] Keiji**
Now that would be a vexing duty.
**[15:34] Kanetsugu VO**
Yes... Ieyasu-dono was ordered by Lord
Nobunaga to execute his own wife and son.
**[15:42] Kanetsugu VO**
It was a merciless measure to protect Mikawa.
**[15:48] Kanetsugu**
As if that weren't enough,
the bastard took his daughter...
**[15:53] Kanetsugu**
Lord Ieyasu's daughter, Princess Toku...
**[15:56] Kanetsugu VO**
became the wife of Ujinao, the Hojo lord.
**[16:05] Ieyasu**
Princess Toku... has two daughters.
**[16:19] Yoshitsugu**
Tokugawa-dono.
**[16:28] Ieyasu**
Ah...
**[16:31] Ieyasu**
You have beautiful eyes.
**[16:35] Yoshitsugu**
Pardon?
**[16:37] Ieysasu**
They are your treasures.
**[16:43] Ieyasu**
Treasures beyond a doubt.
**[16:47] Ieyasu VO**
You...
**[16:50] Ieyasu**
Could you destroy them
with your own hands?
**[16:58] Ieyasu**
I... have destroyed
my own wife and son.
**[17:15] Ieyasu**
Whose command did I obey?
**[17:19] Ieyasu**
A man's?
**[17:21] Ieyasu**
Heaven's?
**[17:25] Ieyasu**
Or was it simply my fate?
**[17:30] Yoshitsugu (back turned)**
In that case...
**[17:33] Honda**
Otani-dono!
**[17:41] Ieyasu**
Wh-What have you done?
**[17:44] Yoshitsugu**
It is merely my eye I give you.
**[17:47] Yoshitsugu**
But if I can allay your grief...
**[17:50] Yoshitsugu**
even if only a little...
**[17:55] Ieyasu**
Otani-dono.
**[18:03] Honda (background)**
Lord!
**[18:21] Yoshitsugu**
Tokugawa-dono.
**[18:25] Ieyasu**
The attack on Odawara...
how many troops are there?
**[18:32] Yoshitsugu**
They will exceed 200,000.
**[18:40] Ieyasu**
Hojo thinks they'll number
50,000 or 100,000, at most.
**[18:46] Ieyasu VO**
And he brags he could gather
that many at any time.
**[18:52] Ieyasu (back turned)**
However, even if he could rally them...
**[18:57] Ieyasu VO**
half of them would be farmers
and townsfolk, useless in battle.
**[19:05] Ieyasu**
But you say Toyotomi will have 200,000.
**[19:09] Ieyasu**
And all of them will be seasoned warriors.
**[19:15] Ieyasu VO**
I am certain that would be
beyond Hojo's expectations.
**[19:22] Ieyasu**
Hojo is a simple rube.
**[19:24] Ieyasu**
Therefore, his demise would be Heaven's will.
**[19:29] Ieyasu**
So I now must obey Heaven's will.
**[19:36] Ieyasu**
Inform your lord.
**[19:39] Ieyasu**
That I, Ieyasu, will be
at the front line to attack Hojo.
**[19:47] Yoshitsugu**
Tokugawa-dono.
**[19:56] Mitsunari VO**
Indeed, that Heima is such a fool.
**[20:01] Mitsunari VO**
He lost his left eye for this cause...
**[20:04] Mitsunari VO**
and says, "It's only for benevolence,"
and laughs it off.
**[20:10] Yoshitsugu**
Don't say it, Sakichi.
**[20:14] Yoshitsugu**
Naoe-dono...
**[20:17] Yoshitsugu**
Please keep this matter to yourself.
**[20:21] Yoshitsugu**
If anyone finds out...
**[20:24] Yoshitsugu (back turned)**
It would bring shame to Tokugawa-dono.
**[20:29] Yoshitsugu**
I plan to keep this eye hidden
and say I have a wart.
**[20:41] Kanetsugu**
Now that I know
**[20:43] Kanetsugu**
the kind of man you are,
I couldn't deceive you, even if I tried.
**[20:49] Kanetsugu**
Unto-an Temple's Thousand-Armed,
Thousand-Eyed Kannon...
**[20:52] Kanetsugu VO**
sees using a thousand hands
as a thousand eyes.
**[20:59] Kanetsugu**
But your left eye is sufficient for you.
**[21:05] Yoshitsugu**
You mean...
**[21:06] Kanetsugu**
Uesugi will come to your aid,
with all our might.
**[21:10] Yoshitsugu**
Yes!
**[21:13] Keiji**
So that's Otani Yoshitsugu,
the benevolent man.
**[21:16] Kanetsugu**
He then told me...
**[21:19] Kanetsugu**
of Hideyoshi Toyotomi's true fearsomeness.
**[21:23] Kanetsugu VO**
Ieyasu-dono wasn't fearful
of the 200,000 troops ...
**[21:27] Kanetsugu**
He was more afraid of Toyotomi's ability
**[21:29] Kanetsugu**
to effortlessly marshal great armies.
**[21:33] Kanetsugu VO**
Ishida Mitsunari...
**[21:35] Kanetsugu VO**
Otani Yoshitsugu...
**[21:37] Kanetsugu (back turned)**
the young vassals of Toyotomi...
**[21:40] Kanetsugu (back turned)**
those outstanding warriors
earnestly cultivated by Hideyoshi himself...
**[21:44] Kanetsugu**
How deeply they loved Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
**[21:52] Keiji**
Yes... but when all is said and done...
**[21:58] Keiji**
even in spite of the depth of their love...
**[22:02] Keiji**
they lost their lives at Sekigahara.
***SIGN*** Episode 16 The Flute General
**[23:41] ---**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
***SIGN*** Episode 16 "The Flute General."
**[23:48] ---**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 16 - The Flute General
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**[00:02] Nar**
April, 1590.
**[00:05] Nar**
Toyotomi Hideyoshi deployed his army to Odawara.
**[00:12] Nar**
His troops numbered 32,000.
**[00:15] Nar**
Furthermore, Otani Yoshitsugu,
**[00:19] Nar**
Ishida Mitsunari and
others converged
***SIGN*** Sunpu Castle Odawara Castle
***SIGN*** Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Otani Yoshitsugu
Ishida Mitsunari
***SIGN*** Chosokabe Motochika
**[00:21] Nar**
with Chosokabe Motochika's navy.
**[00:23] Nar**
In all, the troops numbered 180,000.
**[00:28] Nar**
In addition,
**[00:29] Nar**
the northern army of Maeda Toshiie,
Sanada Masayuki and Uesugi Kagekatsu,
**[00:36] Nar**
was 35,000 strong.
***SIGN*** Hachioji Castle
**[00:39] [SONG] ---**
Ueda Castle
***SIGN*** Northern Army:
Maeda Toshiie, Sanada Masayuki,
Uesugi Kagekatsu
**[00:39] Nar**
By command of the Chief Advisor, Hideyoshi,
they attacked Matsuida Castle,
***SIGN*** Matsuida Castle
**[00:45] Nar**
which was the protective
fortress of Odawara Castle.
**[00:53] Nar**
However...
**[00:55] Nar**
the leader of the fortress,
Daidoji Masashige, led a strong defense.
**[01:00] Nar**
The battle had both sides constantly
in flux between advance and retreat…
**[01:02] Nar**
but the attackers were determined
to seize the fortress.
**[01:06] Kagekatsu**
Matsuida Castle...
**[01:07] Kagekatsu**
Daidoji Masashige...
quite an opponent.
**[01:12] Kagekatsu**
Quite tough.
**[01:14] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[01:16] Kanetsugu**
But we shouldn't be too forceful
now and lose more troops...
**[01:20] Kanetsugu**
Our lord, the Chief Advisor,
is in no hurry for victory either.
**[01:26] Kagekatsu**
We can't make a move until
we completely encircle them.
**[01:32] Kanetsugu**
Oshu and Date haven't joined us yet...
**[01:35] Kanetsugu**
we don't have enough troops.
**[01:37] Kagekatsu**
That's why we need the Chief Advisor...
**[01:41] Kagekatsu**
Where could he be?
**[01:44] Kanetsugu**
Reconnaissance said he's
somewhere near Sunpu Castle.
**[01:48] Kanetsugu**
He's probably there proving his
military prowess to Tokugawa-dono...
**[01:53] Kanetsugu**
No... To the whole nation.
**[02:01] Kagekatsu**
He's going to offer Hojo of Odawara
as human sacrifice for that.
**[02:05] Kanetsugu**
That's just the nature of this battle.
**[02:33] Honda**
Look at the number of troops!
**[02:35] Ieyasu**
Hojo's foolishness was that he
did not see the tide was turning...
**[02:39] Ieyasu**
which has now given us the advantage.
**[02:42] Honda**
Pardon?
**[02:43] Ieyasu**
If Hojo were smart, the Chief
Advisor might have feared him,
**[02:48] Ieyasu**
and collaborated with him...
**[02:51] Ieyasu**
and thus chosen the path to attack
us with a cross-fire instead.
**[02:55] Honda**
Lord...
**[02:57] Ieyasu**
Look.
**[02:58] Ieyasu**
Look at this massive army of troops.
**[03:01] Ieysau**
What if the Chief Advisor's
command to attack Hojo
**[03:06] Ieysau**
gets aimed at us instead?
**[03:11] Ieyasu**
We would be decimated in an instant.
**[03:19] Ieyasu**
A fearful thought, indeed.
***SIGN*** The Flute Player Strategist
**[04:59] Voice**
Announcement!
**[05:01] Voice**
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army has
infiltrated our Odawara fief!
**[05:06] Ujimasa**
Fine.
**[05:08] Ujimasa**
So the monkeys have arrived.
**[05:12] Ujinao**
Well, well. Let's have a look
at those monkeys' faces.
**[05:32] Ujimasa**
Damn you...
**[05:36] Ujimasa**
Hideyoshi!
**[05:48] Hideyoshi**
While Uesugi Kenshin was
laying siege to Odawara Castle,
**[05:53] Hideyoshi**
Takeda Shingen overtook Kawanakajima.
**[05:58] Hideyoshi**
Kenshin was forced to retreat to Echigo.
**[06:02] Hideyoshi**
However...
**[06:04] Hideyoshi**
I won't be going anywhere.
**[06:08] Hideyoshi**
Because...
**[06:13] Hideyoshi**
throughout the nation...
**[06:15] Hideyoshi**
there is no one left to intimidate me!
**[06:36] Ii**
Huh? Huh?
**[06:38] Ii**
What the hell is this?
**[06:43] Ii**
I rushed to Sunpu for this?
**[06:47] Ii**
What an unimaginative positioning of troops.
***SIGN*** Ii Naomasa
**[06:50] Nar**
This man's name is Ii Naomasa.
**[06:57] Tadakatsu**
I agree.
***SIGN*** Honda Tadakatsu
**[06:59] Nar**
And Honda Tadakatsu.
***SIGN*** Sakakibara Yasumasa
**[07:04] Nar**
Sakakibara Yasumasa.
**[07:07] Nar**
These three generals were
**[07:09] Nar**
the cornerstone of Ieyasu's
eventual conquest of the nation.
**[07:13] Nar**
They came to be known in the world
as the "Three Heroes of Tokugawa."
**[07:19] Ieyasu**
Do all of you agree about this?
**[07:22] Sakakibara**
Yes.
**[07:24] Sakakibara**
It looks here as if Tokugawa and
Toyotomi's armies are going to clash.
**[07:29] Tadakatsu**
Indeed, look at the stations.
**[07:31] Tadakatsu**
Six years ago in the battle
of Komaki and Nagakute,
**[07:35] Tadakatsu**
we, with Oda, defeated Toyotomi's army.
**[07:38] Tadakatsu**
He's forming the same positions,
as if to settle an old score.
**[07:41] Ii**
Should we launch an attack now, then?
**[07:45] Tadakatsu**
What?
**[07:48] Tadakatsu**
You and your reckless schemes.
**[07:52] Ii**
Oh, this one isn't.
**[07:54] Ii**
The Chief Advisor's formations
are unexpectedly weak.
**[07:56] Ii**
The positions could be considered good
**[07:58] Ii**
only if they bring all their might
and have all the luck on their side.
**[08:02] Ii**
However, if Date, who hasn't shown up yet,
**[08:07] Ii**
brings reinforcements, victory is ours.
**[08:10] Tadakatsu**
It won't be that easy.
**[08:11] Tadakatsu**
The Chief Advisor is extremely cautious.
**[08:13] Sakakibara**
That's correct.
**[08:14] Sakakibara**
The allied forces of Maeda,
**[08:16] Sakakibara**
Uesugi, and Sanada
are ready to attack Odawara.
**[08:20] Sakakibara**
They're behind us.
**[08:22] Ii**
But I hear they're running
into trouble capturing Matsuida Castle.
**[08:29] Ii**
That army won't show up right away.
**[08:36] Sakakibara**
Lord.
**[08:46] Ieyasu**
We mustn't underestimate their forces.
**[08:52] Iesyasu**
Especially because...
**[08:53] Ieyasu**
Uesugi has Naoe Kanetsugu on their side.
**[08:57] Ii**
Naoe Kanetsugu?
**[08:58] Tadakatsu**
Isn't he the...
**[09:01] Ii**
The one who acted as
an intermediary for Maeda Keiji.
**[09:12] Ieyasu**
There's...
**[09:15] Ieyasu**
something about him.
**[09:44] Kanetsugu**
Whoa! You're so fast, so fast.
**[09:47] Kanetsugu**
What an easy mountain hike.
**[09:57] Mosuke**
Wait for us!
**[10:01] Mosuke**
You said to find you a dog and
not give it water for a few days,
**[10:06] Mosuke**
and now we're hiking mountains with that dog.
**[10:08] Mosuke**
What's this all about?
**[10:11] Kanetsugu**
Don't you know?
**[10:12] Mosuke**
Nothing whatsoever.
**[10:14] Kanetsugu**
Listen.
**[10:15] Kanetsugu**
Dogs have a keen sense of smell.
**[10:17] Kanetsugu**
So we're letting the dog
find a water source for us.
**[10:21] Mosuke**
A water source?
**[10:22] Kanetsugu**
An aqueduct that goes to the castle.
**[10:26] Kanetsugu**
We can't lay siege
**[10:28] Kanetsugu**
on a mountain castle like this
without controlling their water first.
**[10:31] Kanetsugu**
No matter how formidable a fortress this is...
**[10:34] Kanetsugu**
they don't stand a chance without water.
**[10:39] Mosuke**
I get it now.
**[10:41] Mosuke**
That's why we kept the dog thirsty.
**[10:56] Kanetsugu**
Looks like he's sniffing out water.
**[11:14] Mosuke**
Milord!
**[11:24] Mosuke**
There are so many of them.
**[11:27] Kanetsugu**
Looks like we...
**[11:31] Kanetsugu**
have found the water source.
**[11:36] Soldier**
Don't let them get away!
**[11:40] Mosuke**
They're coming.
**[11:42] Mosuke**
Milord, what do we do?
**[11:50] Mosuke**
Lunch? At a time like this?
**[11:52] Kanetsugu**
This thing.
**[11:54] Mosuke**
Ah, that is...
**[12:15] Soldier**
What is this?
**[12:17] Mosuke**
How do you like these smoke bombs?
**[12:29] Kanetsugu**
That'll do it, Mosuke.
**[12:30] Kanetsugu**
Let's get out of here.
**[12:31] Mosuke**
Yes.
**[12:35] Mosuke**
Milord.
**[12:37] Kanetsugu**
This castle is as good as captured now.
**[12:41] Ii**
I see.
**[12:43] Ii**
Naoe Kanetsugu...
**[12:45] Ii**
sounds like an interesting fellow.
**[12:49] Ieyasu**
If you get careless, he could
put you in a painful situation.
**[12:55] Ii**
True.
**[12:56] Ii**
But...
**[12:59] Ii**
According to the late Takeda,
**[13:01] Ii**
he is not the son of a coal
manager by the name of Higuchi.
**[13:06] Ii**
In fact, he is said to be
the orphaned, only son...
**[13:12] Ii**
of the lifelong celibate,
Uesugi Kenshin.
**[13:17] Tadakatsu**
That can't be true.
**[13:19] Sakakibara**
There you go again
with your stories.
**[13:28] Ieyasu**
That's quite an interesting story you heard...
**[13:34] Keiji**
At that time...
**[13:36] Keiji**
lord Ieyasu's intentions
must have been clear.
**[13:41] Keiji**
For example, remember the matter
concerning Saito Dosan...
**[13:46] Keiji**
Some time ago, Dosan staged a coup
against his own lord, Toki Yorinari,
**[13:50] Keiji**
and stole the province of Mino from him.
**[13:54] Keiji**
In the end, however,
Dosan was killed in a family dispute.
**[14:02] Keiji**
Yoshitatsu, Dosan's heir at Mino,
was actually the son of Yorinari.
**[14:08] Keiji**
And...
**[14:09] Keiji**
Yoshitatsu, having learned of the secret
of his own bloodline, killed Dosan.
**[14:15] Kanetsugu**
Sometimes...
**[14:16] Kanegtsugu**
blood can lead to evil deeds.
**[14:21] Ii**
In other words,
**[14:22] Ii**
If that is a fact...
**[14:25] Ii**
It will some day become the fire of karma...
**[14:28] Ii**
that will burn up Uesugi.
**[14:35] Ieyasu**
Hm. And when will that day be?
**[14:43] Mosuke**
Matsuida Castle...
**[14:46] Mosuke**
will be captured soon.
**[14:49] Mosuke**
All it took was
**[14:51] Mosuke**
cutting off their water supply.
**[14:53] Mosuke**
It sounds all too easy.
**[15:33] Kanetsugu**
Beautiful.
**[15:34] Kanetsugu**
What splendid flute playing.
**[15:36] Kanetsugu**
I heard it last night, too.
**[15:38] Mosuke**
He's a Shugen ascetic monk,
who's just passing by.
**[15:41] Mosuke**
I heard he plays the flute to guide the dead.
**[15:45] Kanetsugu**
Mosuke, you met him?
**[15:49] Mosuke**
I was lured by the sounds
of his flute last night.
**[15:51] Kanetsugu**
Did you get his name?
**[15:54] Mosuke**
No.
**[15:55] Mosuke**
But he told me the name of his flute.
**[15:57] Kanetsugu**
The name of the flute?
**[15:58] Mosuke**
It's called Sea Breeze.
**[16:01] Kanetsugu**
Sea Breeze.
**[16:48] Kanetsugu**
You want a drink?
**[16:52] Kanetsugu**
This is sake from Yanagiya of Kyoto.
**[16:55] Kanetsugu**
Lord Kenshin was very fond of it.
**[16:59] Kojuro**
You... are Naoe Kanetsugu, aren't you?
**[17:05] Kojuro**
Who else would be eccentric
enough to drink sake
**[17:08] Kojuro**
with a strange Shugen monk...
**[17:12] Kojuro**
here at this Uesugi encampment?
**[17:16] Kanetsugu**
We are both strategists in battle, aren't we?
**[17:18] Kanetsugu**
We can talk endlessly.
**[17:22] Kojuro**
I see you already know who I am.
**[17:25] Kanetsugu**
A master flautist,
whose favorite flute is Sea Breeze...
**[17:32] Kanetsugu**
You must be none other
than Katakura Kojuro.
***SIGN*** Katakura Kojuro
**[17:39] Mosuke**
K-Katakura Kojuro...
**[17:42] Mosuke**
the strategist of the Date clan, from Oshu?
**[17:48] Kanetsugu**
Why are you here?
**[17:51] Kojuro**
If Date and Toyotomi were to clash in battle...
**[17:55] Kojuro**
you would be the one
in command, and no other...
**[18:00] Kojuro**
Such being the case...
**[18:08] Kojuro**
I thought I'd want to have a good look at you.
**[18:19] Keiji**
The Flute Player Strategist,
Katakura Kojuro, eh?
**[18:23] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[18:24] Kanetsugu**
Will they side with Hojo and revolt
against the Chief Advisor?
**[18:29] Kanetsugu**
Or will they come to the aid
of national unification?
**[18:33] Kanetsugu**
The Date clan of Oshu is key
in the subjugation of Odawara.
**[18:38] Keiji**
And here comes Katakura Kojuro
to the battlefield...
**[18:42] Keiji**
What is his plan?
**[18:51] Kanetsugu**
Date has not arrived on the fields yet.
**[18:55] Kanetsugu**
Are they going to challenge Toyotomi?
**[19:03] Kojuro**
We are still uncertain.
**[19:06] Kanetsugu**
Uncertain?
**[19:08] Kojuro**
It is a shameful thing,
**[19:10] Kojuro**
but currently, the Date clan
is divided with regard to Toyotomi.
**[19:13] Kojuro**
One faction wants to oppose him;
another faction wants to serve him.
**[19:15] Kojuro**
The conflict is intense.
**[19:18] Kanetsugu**
I have heard the rumors.
**[19:22] Kojuro**
In defiance of our Chief Date Masamune,
**[19:25] Kojuro**
the opposing faction is led by
the fierce commander of the Date clan,
**[19:29] Kojuro**
Date Shigezane, along with
Lord Masamune's own brother, Kojiro-sama...
**[19:34] Kojuro**
Lord Masamune is of the serving faction.
**[19:37] Kojuro**
But he does not foresee
the value in betraying Hojo,
**[19:42] Kojuro**
who was his father, Terumune's friend.
**[19:47] Kojuro**
However, everyone is forgetting
the most essential point.
**[19:52] Kojuro**
The Date clan knows nothing
of Chief Advisor Hideyoshi.
**[19:57] Kojuro**
They do not know who they are dealing with,
whether he is friend or foe.
**[20:00] Kojuro**
They have not seen or touched him,
**[20:03] Kojuro**
yet they seek to devise
a grand plan to move against him.
**[20:05] Kojuro**
Utter foolishness!
**[20:07] Kojuro**
Which means we are no different from Hojo.
**[20:10] Kanetsugu**
So, did you catch a glimpse
of the Chief Advisor in the encampment?
**[20:20] Kojuro**
Yes, I did.
**[20:23] Kojuro**
Like this.
**[20:30] Kojuro**
Furthermore, I have found a way
to cripple their formations.
**[20:43] Kojuro**
Do you want to kill me?
**[20:45] Kojuro**
I might become your enemy.
**[20:48] Kanetsugu**
I...
**[20:50] Kanetsugu**
see righteousness in you.
**[20:53] Kojuro**
Righteousness.
**[20:55] Kanetsugu**
You put your own desires
aside for a higher purpose.
**[20:59] Kanetsugu**
You are not cruel, but you are cold.
**[21:02] Kanetsugu**
That is the righteousness of the strategist.
**[21:05] Kanetsugu**
The righteousness of Uesugi
is to fight with dignity,
**[21:09] Kanetsugu**
even against a tactician of your caliber.
**[21:13] Kojuro**
Righteousness and dignity, eh?
**[21:16] Kojuro**
I think I know now what I must do.
**[21:20] Kanetsugu**
We shall meet again...
**[21:23] Kojuro**
perhaps as enemies...
**[21:25] Kanetsugu**
perhaps as allies...
**[21:26] Both**
On the battlefield.
**[21:39] Nar**
Soon thereafter, Katakura Kojuro
**[21:43] Nar**
dauntlessly counseled
for the deployment to Odawara.
**[21:46] Nar**
Date of Oshu departed from Aizu.
**[21:50] Nar**
And in the shadows...
**[21:51] Nar**
To avoid internal discord in the clan,
**[21:54] Nar**
Date Masamune killed his own brother, Kojiro,
**[21:57] Nar**
who was of the opposing faction.
**[22:00] Nar**
He did it not out of cruelty,
**[22:04] Nar**
but rather as a cold, calculated
measure to protect his clan.
**[23:41] ---**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
***SIGN*** Episode 17 "The Red Demon of Ii."
***SIGN*** Episode 17 The Red Demon of Ii
**[23:49] ---**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 17 - Ii the Red Demon
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**[00:02] Nar**
Matsuida Castle has fallen.
**[00:08] Nar**
The fortress chief, Daido Masashige,
defended against the month-long siege in vain.
**[00:12] Nar**
He realized further resistance would
merely waste the lives of his troops,
**[00:19] Nar**
so he surrendered to the attackers, namely,
**[00:23] Nar**
to the allied armies
of Maeda, Sanada, and Uesugi.
**[00:30] nar**
Their conquest devastated
**[00:32] nar**
one of the essential strongholds
guarding Odawara Castle.
**[00:38] Nar**
And...
**[00:39] Nar**
the news of the fallen castle
traveled to Hojo at Odawara.
***SIGN*** The Red Demon of Ii
**[02:21] Ujimasa**
Hmm...
**[02:24] Ujimasa**
Well, no matter.
**[02:26] Ujimasa**
So a castle fell. It's only Matsuida Castle.
**[02:30] Ujimasa**
We've got several fortresses
guarding Odawara Castle.
**[02:37] Ujimasa**
Why should we panic?
**[02:42] Ujinori**
But, my brother, if things continue this way...
**[02:44] Ujimasa**
You worry too much.
**[02:48] Ujimasa**
Hideyoshi's armies won't attack us.
**[02:52] Ujimasa**
I don't see them anywhere.
**[02:56] Ujimasa**
Right, Ujinao?
**[03:00] Ujimasa**
What's the matter, Ujinao?
**[03:03] Ujinao**
F-Father.
**[03:06] Ujinao**
Wh-What i-is th-that?!
**[03:20] Ujimasa**
What the...
**[03:23] Ujimasa**
What the hell?!
**[03:26] Ujimasa**
This is a battlefield!
**[03:51] Ujinori**
I heard that they brought
prostitutes here from the capital.
**[03:55] Ujinori**
Not only that, but I heard Hideyoshi
also invited his concubines.
**[03:58] Ujimasa**
Concubines?
**[04:01] Ujinao**
Also?
**[04:05] Ujimasa**
Damn you, Hideyoshi!
**[04:07] Ujimasa**
How dare you make a circus of this war?!
**[04:16] Hideyoshi**
That Hojo must be fuming right now.
**[04:20] Hideyoshi**
But the fun has yet to begin...
**[04:23] Hideyoshi**
I am going to take my sweet time...
**[04:25] Hideyoshi**
and drive you into a corner.
**[04:30] Hideyoshi**
And now for the next move.
**[04:39] Kagekatsu**
The Chief Advisor is persistent
about attacking the fortresses.
**[04:42] Kagekatsu**
He's now urging us
to bring down Hachioji Castle.
**[04:46] Kanetsugu**
Hojo knows that fortresses don't fall easily.
**[04:50] Kanetsugu**
That's why he opted
to fight from the castles.
**[04:52] Kanetsugu**
If his fortresses are
besieged one at a time,
**[04:55] Kanetsugu**
he will gradually
become demoralized.
**[05:00] Kagekatsu**
I see.
**[05:02] Kagekatsu**
Out of all the fortresses,
**[05:04] Kagekatsu**
Hachioji Castle is definitely
the cornerstone of Kanto.
**[05:06] Kagekatsu**
If it falls, it will have a great impact
on the morale of Hojo's forces.
***SIGN*** Odawara Castle
**[05:11] Kanetsugu**
But not even Lord Kenshin was able
to conquer this Odawara Castle.
**[05:16] Kanetsugu**
It's a giant, impregnable fortress.
**[05:19] Kagekatsu**
Hmm...
**[05:20] Kanetsugu**
The Chief Advisor knows this,
which is why he wants to bring it down.
**[05:26] Kagekatsu**
If it were to happen,
**[05:28] Kagekatsu**
both our armies will sustain
considerable casualties.
**[05:32] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[05:42] Kanetsugu**
How does the Chief Advisor
perceive this battle?
**[05:52] Kagekatsu**
Just as you perceive it.
**[05:56] Kanetsugu**
Lord...
**[06:02] Ii**
The reason for my visit...
**[06:04] Ii**
concerns the bloodline of Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[06:07] Hanzo**
Indeed.
**[06:10] Ii**
Hattori-dono, you'd do this for us?
**[06:14] Ii**
It seems things are going to get bloody.
**[06:18] Hanzo**
That...
**[06:21] Hanzo**
is my duty.
**[06:31] Hanzo**
According to what I hear,
**[06:33] Hanzo**
Naoe Kanetsugu is the orphaned
son of Uesugi Kenshin.
**[06:42] Ii**
Sagen.
**[06:42] Ii**
Don't be shy.
Tell them what you know.
**[06:54] Sagen**
So be it.
**[06:56] Sagen**
Twenty-nine years ago, in 1561...
**[07:01] Sagen**
Lord Uesugi Kenshin commanded
a sculptor from Shukuin of Nara
**[07:05] Sagen**
to sculpt Jizo Bodhisattva.
**[07:08] Sagen**
But this statue of Jizo
Bodhisattva was an odd one.
**[07:13] Ieyasu**
Odd?
**[07:14] Sagen**
Lord.
**[07:16] Sagen**
Have you heard of "gem eyes"?
**[07:18] Ieyasu**
What is that?
**[07:20] Sagen**
Eyes are drawn in detail
on the back of polished crystals.
**[07:26] Sagen**
When inserted into the sockets of the statue...
**[07:28] Sagen**
it is said they resemble real eyes.
**[07:34] Ieyasu**
And?
**[07:35] Sagen**
Lord Kenshin gave the sculptor
an illustration in ink,
**[07:38] Sagen**
which was a detailed copy
of a particular design.
**[07:43] Sculptor**
What is this?
**[07:45] Kenshin**
They are the eyes of my son.
**[07:47] Kenshin**
I drew them.
**[07:50] Kenshin**
Make these eyes the gem eyes
of the Bodhisattva's statue.
**[07:55] Sculptor**
If I may ask why?
**[08:01] Kenshin**
My son's mother died giving birth to him.
**[08:06] Kenshin**
Thus...
**[08:08] Kenshin**
I want to bring the Bodhisattva
who bears my son's eyes,
**[08:11] Kenshin**
to be present at her memorial tablet.
**[08:15] Ieyasu**
Hmm... I would not have
expected this of Lord Kenshin.
**[08:21] Ii**
But there's more.
**[08:23] Sagen**
The ink illustration was deposited
into the body of the Bodhisattva's statue.
**[08:27] Sagen**
"My son shall come. Masatora."
**[08:30] Sagen**
That is what was written
with the illustration,
**[08:32] Sagen**
in the unmistakable
handwriting of Lord Kenshin.
**[08:36] Ieyasu**
Hmm... "Masatora"...
**[08:39] Ieyasu**
Indeed. That was Lord Kenshin's
name twenty-nine years ago.
**[08:44] Hanzo**
But how did you acquire this information?
**[08:48] Ii**
He was one of Takeda's Mitsumono.
**[08:52] Nar**
The Mitsumono was a Ninja-spy
group organized by Takeda Shingen.
**[09:00] Nar**
They were Shingen's reconnaissance network,
which was spread nationwide.
**[09:07] Sagen**
The investigation was
commanded by Lord Shingen.
**[09:13] Hanzo**
Hmm.
**[09:14] Ieyasu**
However, how does this
tie in with Kanetsugu?
**[09:20] Sagen**
There is an ancient technique for
identifying persons using ocular patterns.
**[09:26] Ieyasu**
Ocular patterns?
**[09:28] Sagen**
Because each one is respectively unique.
**[09:32] Sagen**
No two are the same.
**[09:34] Sagen**
And the pattern never changes
throughout one's lifetime.
**[09:37] Ii**
Furthermore, it's said
there are several unusual,
**[09:42] Ii**
star-shaped black marks
on the Bodhisattva's eyes.
**[09:58] Ieyasu**
I see.
**[10:00] Ieyasu**
So if Naoe Kanetsugu has
those black marks in his eyes...
**[10:06] Ieyasu**
this Jizo Bodhisattva will be proof
that Kanetsugu is Lord Kenshin's son.
**[10:16] Sagen**
Yes.
**[10:17] Ieyasu**
Then you must bring me
this Jizo Bodhisattva.
**[10:23] Ieyasu**
It would be an invaluable tool
to effortlessly defeat Uesugi.
**[10:28] Ieyasu**
Put your life on the line,
**[10:29] Ieyasu**
and get it at all costs.
**[10:35] Honda**
Oh?
**[10:36] Honda**
Ii-dono took off to go
see Naoe's black marks?
**[10:41] Ieyasu**
Right.
**[10:43] Ieyasu**
Does Naoe, indeed,
have the alleged black marks?
**[10:48] Ieyasu**
Ii said looking for the Bodhisattva statue
**[10:50] Ieyasu**
would be pointless if he didn't have them.
**[10:53] Honda**
I heard Naoe is headed
to reconnoiter Hachioji Castle.
**[10:57] Honda**
Ii-dono is going to him in person?
**[11:01] Ieyasu**
He said he wants to meet him.
**[11:07] Honda**
As far as I know, Naoe and
Ii-dono are a year apart in age.
**[11:11] Honda**
And yet, Naoe is
the military leader of Uesugi,
**[11:14] Honda**
as well as the Chief Retainer.
**[11:15] Ieyasu**
It seems Ii has found himself a rival.
**[11:28] Mosuke**
What's this?
**[11:29] Peanut Gallery1**
Hey, come on.
**[11:31] Peanut Gallery1**
There's no way.
**[11:32] Peanut Gallery2**
He's no competition.
**[11:33] Mosuke**
What? What? What's going on?
**[11:37] Bruiser McDuff**
Why, you twerp!
**[11:44] Mosuke**
What's this all about?
**[11:46] Lavender Robe Gawker**
It's a vendetta.
**[11:47] Mosuke**
What?
**[11:48] Lavender Robe Gawker**
That samurai refused to pay for booze,
and then he killed the store owner.
**[11:53] Gawker2**
The kid is the store owner's son.
**[11:57] Gawker3**
He's going to get himself killed.
**[12:01] Bruiser McDuff**
The booze was lousy.
**[12:07] Bruiser McDuff**
Yet he dared to demand payment for it.
**[12:12] Bruiser McDuff**
And who are you?
**[12:18] Kanetsugu**
I've come to the kid's aid.
**[12:25] Bruiser McDuff**
Whoever you are, you must be drunk!
**[12:36] Bruiser McDuff**
Can't you see my red-lacquered spear?
**[12:41] Bruiser McDuff**
I am of Koshu's Takeda's army,
the famed Red Armor Army. My name is...
**[13:17] Ii**
Buffoon. How dare you feign
being a Takeda retainer?!
**[13:22] Nar**
It was no surprise that
Naomasa would be angered.
**[13:26] Nar**
Because it was Ii Naomasa
himself who continued
**[13:29] Nar**
the succession of the Red Armor
Army in the Tokugawa clan,
**[13:32] Nar**
which was known to have been
the most powerful in the civil war times.
**[13:37] nar**
He had employed Shimosaka Sagen and many
other vassals after the death of Takeda.
**[13:50] Kanetsugu**
Your courage is splendid.
**[13:51] Kanetsugu**
You challenged a grown-up
and stood your ground.
**[13:56] Kanetsugu**
If there's anything I can do for you...
**[13:58] Ii**
Hey! Wait a second!
**[14:01] Ii**
I'm the one who came to his aid.
**[14:04] Ii**
You're stealing my lines!
**[14:09] Ii**
Hey, kid.
**[14:11] Ii**
You were splendid.
**[14:13] Ii**
If there's anything I can
do for you, just ask.
**[14:16] Boy**
U-Umm... Who are you, Mister Samurai?
**[14:19] Ii**
Now listen carefully.
**[14:23] Ii**
My name... is... Ii Naomasa.
**[14:27] Boy**
Yes.
**[14:28] Boy**
Thank you very much.
**[14:30] Ii**
Mmm... Hmm.
**[14:33] Ii**
Hey. Now it's your turn.
**[14:36] Kanetsugu**
My name is Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[14:40] Ii**
Wh-What?
**[14:42] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[14:43] Ii**
The premier of Uesugi, that's you?
**[14:47] Kanetsugu**
And you are Ii Naomasa-dono,
one of the Three Heroes of Tokugawa.
**[14:54] Kanetsugu**
A fine coincidence that I get to meet you.
**[14:56] Ii**
O-Oh, yeah.
**[14:58] Ii**
How does it get more
coincidental than that?
**[15:03] Ii**
In that case, a drink.
**[15:04] Ii**
Let's toast to our encounter.
**[15:08] Kanetsugu**
I have no reason to refuse.
**[15:10] Ii**
Good!
**[15:13] Ii**
*How convenient.*
**[15:15] Ii**
* I'll get him smashed drunk,*
* and check for the black marks in his eyes.*
**[15:20] Keiji**
Come to think of it.
**[15:22] Keiji**
Perhaps that event marked the beginning
of your big fight with Lord Ieyasu.
**[15:28] Kanetsugu**
Lord Ieyasu revered
and feared Lord Kenshin.
**[15:35] Kanetsugu**
Hence the fight.
**[15:38] Keiji**
The Tokugawa clan feared the blood
of Lord Kenshin that runs in your veins.
**[15:46] Kanetsugu**
Ii Naomasa-dono was desperate, too.
**[15:49] Keiji**
When he got excited,
his face would quickly turn red...
**[15:54] Keiji**
They aptly called him
"Ii, the Red Demon."
**[16:03] Kanetsugu**
I'll never forget
the look on Ii-dono's face.
**[16:24] Ii**
*This guy... Hasn't he had enough to drink?*
**[16:33] Mosuke**
Umm... Milord.
**[16:35] mosuke**
Are you all right?
**[16:36] Ii**
Nothing I can't handle.
**[16:40] Mosuke**
In that case, here.
**[16:41] Ii**
W-W-Wait.
**[16:42] Ii**
Hey.
**[16:45] Mosuke**
There.
**[16:46] Mosuke**
Enjoy.
**[16:50] Mosuke**
Bottoms up.
**[17:01] Kanetsugu**
Pour me another one.
**[17:02] Mosuke**
Yes, right away.
**[17:06] Mosuke**
Enjoy.
**[17:10] Ii**
You... How much more
are you going to drink?
**[17:15] Kanetsugu**
I'm from Echigo.
**[17:17] Kanetsugu**
When it comes to wine,
I'm a bottomless pit.
**[17:20] Ii**
Y-Yeah, but still...
**[17:28] Ii**
*No... This is my chance.*
**[17:32] Ii**
*Those black marks...*
**[17:35] Kanetsugu**
Hmm?
**[17:36] Kanetsugu**
What's the matter?
**[17:38] Kanetsugu**
Is there something on my face?
**[17:41] Ii**
Oh, umm... It's nothing.
**[17:44] Kanetsugu**
I've been noticing our eyes
meeting here and there.
**[17:48] Kanetsugu**
Is it just my imagination?
**[17:49] Ii**
Huh?
**[17:50] Ii**
Is that so?
**[17:51] Ii**
Eyes?
**[17:52] Ii**
Eyes?
**[17:53] Kanetsugu**
Is something wrong with my eyes?
**[17:55] Ii**
N-No. Nothing in particular.
**[18:01] Ii**
*This is getting awkward.*
**[18:02] Ii**
* I must hurry and confirm*
* the black marks in his eyes...*
**[18:07] Kanetsugu**
Here.
**[18:09] Ii**
N-No. It's nothing. It's nothing.
**[18:13] Ii**
You're the one who said it,
so now I'm curious.
**[18:17] Ii**
*How am I going to do this?*
**[18:23] Kanetsugu**
Come on. Drink. Drink.
**[18:27] Ii**
You gotta be kidding!
**[18:28] Ii**
I'm gonna pass out!
**[18:30] Kanetsugu**
There's more, more, more!
**[18:33] Ii**
I can't have any more.
**[18:34] Ii**
I'm telling you! I can't!
**[18:39] Waitress**
Thank you for waiting.
**[18:44] Kanetsugu**
You spilled, Ii-dono.
**[18:55] Kanetsugu**
Are you all right, Ii-dono?
**[18:56] Mosuke**
You're one to talk, Milord.
**[18:59] Kanetsugu**
Ii-dono.
**[19:02] Kanetsugu**
Ii...
**[19:11] Ii**
*I see them.*
**[19:12] Ii**
*So he is Lord Kenshin's offspring.*
**[19:26] Jirobo**
This guy... Does he know of your secret?
**[19:30] Kanetsugu**
Do not do what is unrighteous.
**[19:33] Jirobo**
But...
**[19:36] Kanetsugu**
Lord Kenshin would have let him be.
**[19:55] Ii**
H-How did I get here?
**[20:00] Sagen**
Looks like you had too much to drink.
**[20:07] Ii**
How did I return here?
**[20:09] Sagen**
You did not return.
**[20:11] Ii**
Huh?
**[20:12] Sagen**
Eihei said a famous warrior
delivered you here.
**[20:18] Ii**
Ouch...
**[20:20] Sagen**
What happened?
**[20:22] Ii**
I went on a drinking spree with him.
**[20:26] Sagen**
Oh?
**[20:27] Sagen**
Someone you know?
**[20:31] Ii**
It was... Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[20:34] Sagen**
Wh-What?
**[20:35] Ii**
I ran into him quite by accident.
**[20:38] Sagen**
A-And did you see his eyes?
**[20:42] Ii**
The marks were there.
**[20:45] Ii**
But on second thought,
**[20:49] Ii**
we have no clue as to the
whereabouts of the Bodhisattva statue.
**[20:53] Ii**
What to do?
**[20:55] Sagen**
Concerning that...
**[20:56] Ii**
Huh?
**[20:57] Ii**
Do you have a plan?
**[20:59] Sagen**
Who was Kanetsugu's mother?
**[21:03] Sagen**
Whose memorial tablet
is the statue with?
**[21:06] Sagen**
Indeed, even we do not know...
**[21:10] Sagen**
However, that Jizo
Bodhisattva statue was the
**[21:13] Sagen**
work of the sculptor
Genji of Nara's Shukuin.
**[21:16] Ii**
Is Genji still alive?
**[21:19] Sagen**
No, he has departed.
**[21:23] Sagen**
But his children, grandchildren,
and relatives are still alive in Nara's Shukuin.
**[21:28] Ii**
I see.
**[21:30] Sagen**
Furthermore, Genji was a famed master.
**[21:35] Sagen**
Everyone in the world of his
craft would know of him.
**[21:38] Sagen**
A seasoned artist would know
his style and spot his statue.
**[21:40] Ii**
And...?
**[21:42] Sagen**
So it is possible...
**[21:46] Sagen**
that there are those
with the knowledge to help us.
**[21:49] Ii**
Oh... Oh... Oh!
**[21:53] Sagen**
What is the matter?
**[21:55] Sagen**
Are you still drunk?
**[21:57] Sagen**
Your face is bright red!
**[21:59] Sagen**
I can almost feel the heat.
**[22:01] Ii**
I am Ii, the Red Demon!
**[22:04] Ii**
This is proof that I am sober!
***SIGN*** Episode 18 The Death Robe of Date
**[23:40] Nar**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:45] Nar**
Episode 18
"The Death Robe of Date."
**[23:49] Nar**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 18 - The Death Robe of Date
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**[00:04] Ii**
*I see them.*
**[00:06] Ii**
*So he is Lord Kenshin's offspring.*
**[00:10] Hanzo**
Then if we acquire the Jizo Bodhisattva
with black marks on the eyes...
**[00:16] Hanzo**
internal strife of the Uesugi
clan would be guaranteed.
**[00:21] Ii**
That about sums it up.
**[00:26] Hanzo**
However, where is that
Bodhisattva statue?
**[00:30] Sagen**
For us to find out where it is...
**[00:32] Sagen**
we must trace steps from
the sculptor of Nara's Shukuin.
**[00:39] Hanzo**
I see...
**[00:43] Hanzo**
Regarding this matter...
**[00:44] Hanzo**
who else in the Ii clan knows about it?
**[00:48] Ii**
Just me and Shimosaka Sagen here.
**[00:52] Hanzo**
I see...
**[00:55] Hanzo**
In that case...
**[00:59] Hanzo**
The left hand...
**[01:07] Ii**
Sagen... You have a left hand!
**[01:11] Hanzo**
You...
**[01:13] Hanzo**
So you've endured by pretending
to have only one arm,
**[01:16] Hanzo**
for emergencies such as this.
**[01:19] Sagen**
I am Takeda's Mitsumono, after all.
**[01:25] Hanzo**
How dutiful of you.
**[01:28] Hanzo**
I'm impressed.
**[01:29] Hanzo**
Take my men with you to Nara.
**[01:32] Hanzo**
I will put you in charge of the investigation.
**[01:37] Sagen**
Lord, are you fine with this?
**[01:45] Ii**
I'm fine with it.
**[01:54] Sagen**
Very well. My wizened body...
**[01:58] Sagen**
will finally be put to use.
***SIGN*** The Death Robe of Date
**[03:37] Kanetsugu**
I heard Takeda Shingen got word
about the Jizo Bodhisattva.
**[03:41] Kanetsugu**
He's been sniffing around for it.
**[03:44] Kanetsugu**
Until just recently...
**[03:46] Keiji**
With Ii Naomasa, the successor
of Takeda's Red Armor Army,
**[03:50] Keiji**
and Shimosaka Sagen,
one of Takeda's Mitsumono...
**[03:54] Keiji**
Odawara was brimming with interesting men.
**[03:58] Kanetsugu**
And there's the one,
**[04:01] Kanetsugu**
most exceptional man of them all.
**[04:05] Keiji**
That would be...
**[04:06] Keiji**
the man from Oshu.
**[04:18] Nar**
1590, sixth month, fifth day.
**[04:29] Nar**
Date Masamune
**[04:31] Nar**
arrived in Odawara with his army.
**[04:34] Nar**
However, on the seventh day
of the same month...
***SIGN*** Odawara
Castle
***SIGN*** Ishigakiyama
***SIGN*** (Ichiya Castle)
Mount Ishigaki
***SIGN*** Hakone
***SIGN*** Hakone Sokokura
***SIGN*** Hakone Sokokura Hot Springs
**[04:38] Nar**
having arrived too late to battle,
**[04:41] ---**
**[04:41] Nar**
he was punished by confinement at Hakone Sokokura.
**[04:46] Toshiie**
That young upstart, Date.
**[04:48] Toshiie**
I have better things to do.
**[04:50] Nar**
Furthermore, Maeda Toshiie
had been dispatched
**[04:53] Nar**
to interrogate him
concerning the delinquency.
**[04:57] Toshiie**
He'll commit seppuku!
**[04:58] Toshiie**
Seppuku!
**[04:59] Toshiie**
Seppuku, seppuku!
**[05:23] Nar**
Kanetsugu,
**[05:24] Nar**
having been repeatedly pressed by Hideyoshi
**[05:27] Nar**
to hastily bring down Hachioji Castle,
**[05:31] Nar**
came to visit Hideyoshi
**[05:34] Nar**
on the pretext of making
a reconnaissance report.
**[05:37] Hideyoshi**
What do you think of this
castle, Kanetsugu?
**[05:40] Kanetsugu**
Pardon?
**[05:41] Hideyoshi**
Look forward to it.
**[05:43] Hideyoshi**
This will be the castle that
will bring down Odawara Castle.
**[05:45] Hideyoshi**
You could say it's my strategic masterpiece!
**[05:48] Hideyoshi**
And when it goes down,
I'll invite you to come see it.
**[05:52] Hideyoshi**
So hurry up and bring down Hachioji Castle.
**[05:59] Hideyoshi**
What's the matter with you, Kanetsugu?
You look so glum.
**[06:04] Kanetsugu**
My lord...
**[06:06] Hideyoshi**
I see. You're worried about that Date kid.
**[06:09] Kanetsugu**
That is not it.
**[06:11] Kanetsugu**
I am concerned about
when Maeda Toshiie-dono
**[06:12] Kanetsugu**
will be returning to the battlefield
from his interrogation of Date-dono.
**[06:18] Hideyoshi**
Uesugi is strong enough,
**[06:20] Hideyoshi**
so it wouldn't make a difference
if Toshiie were missing.
**[06:22] Hideyoshi**
Wouldn't you say?
**[06:24] Hideyoshi**
However, Date ignored my commands.
**[06:28] Hideyoshi**
He'd better be prepared for the consequences.
**[06:33] Hideyoshi**
What's the matter?
**[06:34] Hideyoshi**
Will Uesugi take this as
an opportunity to attack Oshu?
**[06:39] Kanetsugu**
No.
**[06:39] Kanetsugu**
But there is one man I would miss,
if I were never to see him again.
**[07:09] General**
Katakura-sama.
**[07:11] General**
You have a visitor.
**[07:12] Kojuro**
Who is it?
**[07:13] General**
It is Naoe Kanetsugu-dono.
**[07:18] Kojuro**
Well...
**[07:20] Kojuro**
perhaps I should treat him to a bath.
**[07:22] Nar**
In those days, the greatest show of
hospitality to guests was to draw them a bath.
**[07:29] Nar**
And they are in Hakone,
**[07:32] Nar**
so a bath would be a perfectly fitting treat.
**[07:38] Kanetsugu**
What a fine bath.
**[07:40] Kanetsugu**
I'd expect no less from Hakone.
**[07:44] Kanetsugu**
But it's been troublesome...
**[07:47] Kanetsugu**
putting up with the Chief Advisor's moods.
**[07:50] Kojuro**
He's still the same.
**[07:52] Kanetsugu**
Perhaps it was impertinent of me,
**[07:54] Kanetsugu**
but I went to see how his lordship was doing.
**[07:58] Kojuro**
Were things as you had expected?
**[08:01] Kanetsugu**
How unusual.
**[08:03] Kojuro**
Hm?
**[08:04] Kanetsugu**
To see a strategist of your
caliber look so puzzled.
**[08:09] Kojuro**
Our lord Masamune's intentions
are blatantly obvious.
**[08:13] Kojuro**
So I have no excuses.
**[08:16] Kanetsugu**
His intentions?
**[08:17] Voice**
I'm coming in.
**[08:18] Kanetsugu**
Huh?
**[08:32] Kojuro**
Lord.
**[08:38] Kanetsugu**
You must be Date Masamune-dono.
***SIGN*** Date Masamune
**[08:59] Masamune**
You're big.
**[09:01] Masamune**
Are you Naoe?
**[09:02] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[09:04] Masamune**
I have heard about you.
**[09:06] Masamune**
I have come to see your face.
**[09:07] Kanetsugu**
We are gladdened by
your army's participation.
**[09:11] Masamune**
It's nothing.
**[09:12] Masamune**
The Chief Advisor stubbornly
insisted we go, so we went.
**[09:24] Masamune**
This is heaven.
**[09:26] Masamune**
How thoughtful of the Chief Advisor...
**[09:29] Masumune**
for letting us enjoy this luxurious bath.
**[09:35] Masumune**
Hey, Naoe.
**[09:38] Masumune**
People say I resemble Lord Oda Nobunaga.
**[09:43] Masamune**
If only I had been born earlier.
**[09:52] Masamune**
But...
**[09:54] Masamune**
that's not how it is!
**[10:04] Masamune**
I am younger than anyone.
**[10:06] Masamune**
Geezers are ready for the grave.
**[10:12] Masamune**
Hence...
**[10:18] Masamune**
I will eventually be ruler.
**[10:30] Kanetsugu**
Interesting.
**[10:31] Kojuro**
He behaved no differently with the interrogator,
saying whatever he pleased.
**[10:35] Kojuro**
Indeed, our lord is just a child.
**[10:39] Kojuro**
A big child.
**[10:41] Kojuro**
That is why he has no guile.
**[10:43] Kojuro**
He has no devious ploy
to conquer the nation.
**[10:48] Kojuro**
And that is also why
he is the most trustworthy.
**[10:51] Kojuro**
I wonder what the interrogator
relayed to the Chief Advisor about him.
**[10:55] Kanetsugu**
Even if he relayed nothing,
**[10:56] Kanetsugu**
there's a man by the Chief
Advisor's side who could infer it all.
**[11:01] Kojuro**
Who?
**[11:02] Kanetsugu**
Sen-no Rikyu.
**[11:05] Kojuro**
The greatest tea ceremony
master in the world?
**[11:08] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[11:09] Kanetsugu**
It's Rikyu-dono's perspectives...
**[11:11] Kanetsugu**
which the Chief Advisor trusts,
more than anyone else's.
**[11:15] Kojuro**
But even his tea could
become a deadly poison.
**[11:27] Kanetsugu**
He's already dead, anyway.
**[11:47] Kanetsugu**
Kojuro-dono.
**[11:50] Kanetsugu**
Can you hold that moon in your hands?
**[11:56] Kojuro**
It would be as impossible as telling
my lord to keep his intentions hidden.
**[12:04] Kanetsugu**
You think so?
**[12:13] Kojuro**
Th-That's...
**[12:16] Kanetsugu**
Strategists must never give up in battle.
**[12:28] Kojuro**
My lord.
**[12:30] Masamune**
Could the rumor be true?
**[12:34] Kojuro**
That Naoe-dono is the actual
son of Lord Kenshin?
**[12:39] Masamune**
Because the more I observe Naoe...
**[12:43] Masamune**
the more the rumor strikes me as true.
**[12:46] Kojuro**
If it were true, he would be a big deal.
**[12:51] Masamune**
Hm?
**[12:52] Kojuro**
Lord.
**[12:53] Kojuro**
Would you be able to keep the fact hidden,
**[12:55] Kojuro**
that you are Date's heir,
**[12:57] Kojuro**
of Oshu's local commissioner,
and become my vassal?
**[13:01] Kojuro**
Would you be able to die
for me, as my vassal?
**[13:06] Masamune**
Hmm...
**[13:07] Kojuro**
He is so wild at heart,
even the world is too small for him.
**[13:13] Kojuro**
But he lives from day to day,
while hiding his true nature.
**[13:18] Kojuro**
He lives only for the sake of righteousness.
**[13:22] Masamune**
So that's how Naoe Kanetsugu is.
**[13:30] Masamune**
Then there is only one path
for me to take, Kojuro.
**[13:36] Kojuro**
Yes.
**[13:48] Masamune**
Well...
**[13:49] Masamune**
I'll trust you to put in a good word for me.
**[13:55] Nar**
Subsequently, through Maeda Toshiie,
**[14:01] Nar**
Masamune requested that Rikyu
instruct him in tea ceremony.
**[14:04] Nar**
Rikyu consented readily.
**[14:09] Nar**
Of course, Rikyu immediately could
tell Masamune's inner character.
**[14:21] Nar**
Which, in turn, paved the way
for Masamune's troubles.
**[14:31] Hideyoshi**
He wants instructions in the tea ceremony,
as his last wishes?
**[14:38] Hideyoshi**
Now I really want to see him face-to-face.
**[14:56] Mosuke**
Uh...
**[15:01] Kanetsugu**
Soldiers are coming.
**[15:04] Mosuke**
Huh?
**[15:06] Kanetsugu**
The ground is quaking.
**[15:08] Mosuke**
What?
**[15:14] Mosuke**
What's coming?
**[15:24] Mosuke**
M-Milord!
**[15:25] Mosuke**
Look!
**[15:35] Mosuke**
That is...
***SIGN*** Eight Swords Bishamon
**[15:37] Mosuke**
the flag of Uesugi's
Eight Swords Bishamonten
**[15:41] Kanetsugu**
Why is the lord here in Odawara?
**[15:50] Kagekatsu**
The Chief Advisor intends...
**[15:52] Kagekatsu**
to make a show of Date's punishment.
**[15:56] Suibara**
Yeah...
**[15:58] Suibara**
for that very cause, high daimyo lords
have had to gather in Odawara.
**[16:05] Suibara**
Argh.
**[16:06] Suibara**
It's the end of Date.
**[16:08] Suibara**
I shall respectfully witness his demise.
**[16:11] Kanetsugu**
Or...
**[16:13] Kanetsugu**
this might just turn out to be a gala event.
**[16:17] Suibara**
What?!
**[16:25] Kagekatsu**
Kanetsugu.
**[16:26] Kagekatsu**
What do you mean?
**[16:28] Kanetsugu**
Date Masamune is quite an actor.
**[16:46] Toshiie**
Why must I be in charge of these meetings?
**[16:50] Toshiie**
Don't they know how much all this is costing?
**[16:53] Toshiie**
And that Date Masamune
is just like Keiji. He's unpredictable!
**[17:00] Toshiie**
He makes me sick with worry.
**[17:03] Toshiie**
Date-dono, it is time.
**[17:06] Kojuro**
Yes.
**[17:07] Kojuro**
My lord, your garment.
**[17:12] Toshiie**
What's taking him so long?
**[17:15] Toshiie**
If he's late again,
the Chief Advisor will be displeased...
**[17:19] Toshiie**
Masamune would have to commit seppuku.
**[17:53] Suibara**
Hey, Kanetsugu...
**[17:56] Suibara**
that retainer of Tokugawa over there...
**[17:58] Suibara**
his eyes are shooting daggers at you.
**[18:03] Kanetsugu**
Oh, him.
**[18:04] Kanetsugu**
We had a drinking contest a few days ago.
**[18:10] Suibara**
You drank him under the table, didn't you?
**[18:14] Kanetsugu**
He underestimated me,
a man from Echigo.
**[18:19] Ieyasu**
You.
**[18:19] Ieyasu**
Stop it with your menacing energy.
**[18:21] Ieyasu**
What if the Chief Advisor senses it?
What would you say to him?
**[18:24] Ii**
Yes, but...
**[18:27] Ieyasu**
First things first.
**[18:44] Soldier**
Announcing the arrival
**[18:45] Soldier**
of Date Masamune-dono.
**[19:15] Ieyasu**
Well...
**[19:17] Suibara**
He's wearing a death robe!
**[19:20] Suibara**
How strange.
**[19:22] Suibara**
Is this the kind of thing
**[19:24] Suibara**
someone about to be given
a death sentence would do?
**[19:48] Voice**
Lord!
**[19:48] Voice**
The short sword!
**[19:49] Masamune**
Yeah.
**[20:09] Kojuro**
Lord.
**[20:10] Kojuro**
It is safely in my hands.
**[20:13] Masamune**
I am grateful my insolence
has been admonished.
**[20:46] Hideyoshi**
Kid...
**[20:47] Hideyoshi**
Had you been just a little later...
**[20:49] Hideyoshi**
you would've lost your head.
**[21:00] Hideyoshi**
It is noble that you have
brought your army to Odawara.
**[21:03] Suibara**
Wh-Wh-What?
**[21:06] Suibara**
This is ridiculous.
**[21:09] Kanetsugu**
Looks like Date-dono has been given clemency.
**[21:17] Ii**
This was the Date strategist
Katakura Kojuro's persuasion.
**[21:22] Ii**
Such phony theatrics.
**[21:26] Ieyasu**
No, no.
**[21:27] Ieyasu**
It's the kind of theater
the Chief Advisor enjoys.
**[21:30] Ieyasu**
It endeared him far more effectively
than being spiteful and defiant.
**[21:49] Kagekatsu**
Who is he?
**[21:50] Kanetsugu**
Katakura Kojuro.
**[21:53] Kanetsugu**
He is my formidable friend.
***SIGN*** Episode 19: The Ninjas Take Action
**[23:41] Nar**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:45] Nar**
Episode 19
"The Ninjas Take Action."
**[23:50] Nar**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 19 - The Ninjas Take Action
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**[00:07] Soldier**
Announcing the arrival
**[00:09] Soldier**
of Date Masamune-dono.
**[00:37] Voice**
Lord!
**[00:37] Voice**
Your short sword!
**[00:38] Masamune**
Yeah.
**[00:52] Kojuro**
Lord.
**[00:53] Kojuro**
It is safely in my hands.
**[00:55] Masamune**
I am grateful my insolence
has been admonished.
***SIGN*** The Ninjas Take Action
**[02:46] Keiji**
I see...
**[02:48] Keiji**
a death robe would, indeed, be theatrical
enough to please the Chief Advisor.
**[02:54] Kanetsugu**
More endearing than spite and defiance.
**[02:59] Keiji**
Though he got to keep his head,
Date wasn't unscathed, either.
**[03:04] Kanetsugu**
A large portion of his
territory was confiscated.
**[03:09] Kanetsugu**
And his lordship took away one more
important thing from Date-dono.
**[03:51] Hideyoshi**
Hey, Masamune.
**[03:54] Hideyoshi**
I am confiscating Iwase and Asaka.
**[04:00] Hideyoshi**
Yes.
**[04:15] Hideyoshi**
You will still have
about 700,000 koku left.
**[04:18] Hideyoshi**
Any complaints?
**[04:22] Hideyoshi**
And...
**[04:24] Hideyoshi**
Katakura Kojuro.
**[04:26] Hideyoshi**
I am granting you
50,000 koku from Tamura.
**[04:30] Kojuro**
Pardon?
**[04:34] Hideyoshi**
How about that?
**[04:39] Hideyoshi**
Would you like to become my direct vassal?
**[04:48] Kojuro**
I could not accept it.
**[04:58] Hideyoshi**
Huh?
**[05:12] Hideyoshi**
Why?
**[05:16] Kojuro**
I am the one who has gouged
out my own lord's right eye.
**[05:22] Hideyoshi**
Is this true?
**[05:27] Masamune**
Indeed...
**[05:29] Masamune**
it is true!
**[05:35] Kojuro**
Therefore, it is my destiny
to be his right eye until I die.
**[05:47] Hideyoshi**
All right, all right.
**[05:49] Hideyoshi**
I've heard enough.
**[05:50] Hideyoshi**
How pathetic.
**[05:53] Hideyoshi**
You reject 50,000 koku as if it's nothing.
**[05:59] Hideyoshi**
Hey, Rikyu.
**[06:00] Hideyoshi**
Kojuro reminds me of that guy.
**[06:03] Rikyu**
Yes.
**[06:04] Masamune**
What guy?
**[06:10] Rikyu**
That would be Naoe Kanetsugu-sama.
***SIGN*** Eight Swords Bishamon
**[06:47] Suibara**
I thought that would be the end of Date.
**[06:50] Suibara**
Instead, Masamune curried favor for himself.
**[06:57] Kanetsugu**
That was splendid.
**[07:02] Kagekatsu**
He's a troublesome fellow
from a neighboring province.
**[07:11] Mosuke**
That is...
**[07:42] Ii**
Leave him be.
**[07:49] Ii**
He is Naoe Kanetsugu-dono,
the strategist of Uesugi.
**[07:54] Kanetsugu**
Ii-dono.
**[07:55] Ii**
What are you up to, Naoe-dono?
**[07:57] Kanetsugu**
I would enjoy a visit,
**[08:01] Kanetsugu**
but we must pass through on horseback.
**[08:04] Kanetsugu**
Please pardon us.
**[08:05] Ii**
Huh?
**[08:07] Ieyasu**
This is a battlefield.
**[08:09] Ieyasu**
They may stay on horseback.
**[08:11] Ieyasu**
They may go.
**[08:28] Ieyasu**
Naoe-dono.
**[08:29] Ieyasu**
It has been a while.
**[08:31] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[08:32] Ieyasu**
I heard about your hospitality to Naomasa.
**[08:36] Ii**
Uh... My lord.
**[08:38] Ii**
Please don't...
**[08:40] Ieyasu**
First, you drank him under the table,
**[08:43] Ieyasu**
then you had to deliver him to his residence.
**[08:51] Ii**
Damn it...
**[08:52] Ii**
The biggest embarrassment of my life.
**[08:55] Kanetsugu**
Oh, it was nothing.
**[09:01] Ieyasu**
Thanks for taking care of him.
**[09:03] Ieyasu**
I express my gratitude.
**[09:33] Ii**
Damn...
**[09:45] Mosuke**
Milord.
**[09:47] Mosuke**
My hunch is that Ieyasu
was waiting for you there.
**[09:52] Kanetsugu**
Probably.
**[09:54] Kanetsugu**
That's why I greeted him.
**[09:56] Mosuke**
Huh?
**[10:00] Kanetsugu**
He...
**[10:08] Kanetsugu**
definitely knows the secret about my eyes.
**[10:14] Kagekatsu**
Tokugawa...
**[10:16] Kagekatsu**
is investigating your secret?
**[10:20] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[10:23] Kanetsugu**
He probably knows about
the Jizo Bodhisattva, as well.
**[10:31] Kagekatsu**
Tokugawa must be planning to battle us.
**[10:37] Kanetsugu**
Lord. You need not worry.
**[10:42] Kanetsugu**
Jirobo is on his way
to the Bodhisattva statue,
**[10:44] Kanetsugu**
to make sure it doesn't get stolen.
**[10:50] Kagekatsu**
But...
**[10:51] Kanetsugu**
No.
**[10:53] Kanetsugu**
If my history were to bring
troubles to Uesugi...
**[10:58] Kanetsugu**
you must execute me as a criminal.
**[11:01] Kagekatsu**
What?
**[11:03] Kanetsugu**
That would be the best strategy
to eliminate the source of trouble.
**[11:40] Jirobo**
That's Shimosaka Sagen.
**[11:44] Jirobo**
I heard he's working for Ii Naomasa.
**[11:51] Jirobo**
Can't be true...
**[12:34] Jirobo**
A ninja.
**[12:48] Sagen**
Long time no see, Jirobo.
**[12:51] Sagen**
I see your ninja skills have not waned.
**[12:56] Jirobo**
Shimosaka Sagen, is that you?
**[13:00] Sagen**
You recognize me by voice?
**[13:04] Sagen**
I take it that you have been aware of me.
**[13:19] Jirobo**
What?
**[13:48] Jirobo**
S-Sagen...
**[13:51] Sagen**
Sorry about that.
**[13:53] Sagen**
But there was no other way to capture you.
**[13:57] Jirobo**
Wh-What do you want from me?
**[14:00] Sagen**
Lord Kenshin has bequeathed
a Jizo Bodhisattva as proof of his son.
**[14:05] Sagen**
Tell me where it is.
**[14:10] Jirobo**
Wh...
**[14:11] Jirobo**
What are you talking about?
**[14:29] Sagen**
Don't pretend you don't know.
**[14:31] Sagen**
As Mitsumono ninja, you and I fought
together at Kawanakajima, remember?
**[14:38] Sagen**
Back in the days when I worked for Takeda...
**[14:41] Sagen**
there was a ninja who ran errands
between Nara's Shukuin and Kenshin.
**[14:47] Sagen**
As to his personal description...
**[14:49] Sagen**
it matches yours perfectly.
**[14:52] Jirobo**
Wh-What are you talking about...
**[14:57] Sagen**
Don't play dumb.
**[14:59] Sagen**
I know you were Kenshin's number one ninja.
**[15:05] Sagen**
You can go to Kenshin's
side now, if you like.
**[15:20] Mosuke**
Could that have been...
**[15:24] Kanetsugu**
Mosuke's hunch was right on the mark.
**[15:30] Keiji**
There's no torture more
severe than the ninjas'.
**[15:33] Kanetsugu**
Not to mention, it was Sagen and Jirobo...
**[15:36] Kanetsugu**
It was a battle of wills
**[15:38] Kanetsugu**
between two men connected
to Kenshin and Uesugi's fate.
**[15:43] Keiji**
Hence, his pain...
**[15:45] Keiji**
must have been unimaginable.
**[15:50] Kanetsugu**
However, notwithstanding
the excruciating pain,
**[15:53] Kanetsugu**
Jirobo did not give in.
**[15:56] Keiji**
Indeed...
**[15:59] Kanetsugu**
Due to his righteous loyalty
to my father, Lord Kenshin.
**[16:06] Kenshin**
What?
**[16:07] Kenshin**
Princess Tae is pregnant with my child?
**[16:10] Jirobo**
Yes, indubitably.
**[16:16] Kenshin**
You...
**[16:19] Kenshin**
have just killed someone, haven't you?
**[16:22] Jirobo**
Yes.
**[16:23] Jirobo**
Several ninjas.
**[16:25] Jirobo**
Because they got wind of the secret.
**[16:28] Kenshin**
You killed your own comrades?
**[16:31] Jirobo**
I had to silence them. It was inevitable.
**[16:41] Kenshin**
You...
**[16:43] Jirobo**
Now I, too, can guard the secret.
**[16:48] Kenshin**
I will not allow it.
**[16:49] Kenshin**
Do not die, Jirobo.
**[16:51] Jirobo**
M-Milord.
**[16:57] Kenshin**
As of this moment, you are my direct vassal.
**[17:00] Jirobo**
Th-That is too much...
**[17:02] Kenshin**
Hence, you must live.
**[17:05] Kenshin**
Live and protect my son.
**[17:11] Nar**
This was the moment Jirobo
renewed his will to live.
**[17:16] Nar**
When Jirobo was an infant,
**[17:17] Nar**
he was found at a battlefield
by a ninja leader.
**[17:21] Nar**
He was raised by him－
as a slave and as a ninja.
**[17:24] Nar**
Thus, he was ready to die at any moment,
without any qualms whatsoever.
**[17:30] Nar**
And even now, his will kept Jirobo alive...
**[17:42] Mosuke**
Milord.
**[17:43] Kanetsugu**
Hmm?
**[17:45] Kanetsugu**
What's the matter?
**[17:46] Kanetsugu**
Still can't get to sleep?
**[17:50] Kanetsugu**
I guess you are hearing
Jirobo's voice in your heart, too.
**[17:55] Mosuke**
I'm worried about Jirobo.
**[17:58] Mosuke**
If Tokugawa is onto him, it's too
dangerous for him to go alone.
**[18:03] Mosuke**
I know.
**[18:04] Mosuke**
I can go to his aid.
**[18:08] Mosuke**
But, milord.
**[18:10] Kanetsugu**
Don't worry.
**[18:12] Kanetsugu**
Jirobo is not alone.
**[18:14] Mosuke**
Huh?
**[18:16] Kanetsugu**
That demon is with him.
**[18:18] Mosuke**
Demon?
**[18:22] Mosuke**
No, don't tell me!
**[18:33] Ninja1**
So that's the famous ninja, Jirobo, huh?
**[18:37] Ninja2**
His fame is overrated.
**[18:38] Ninja1**
Nothing but a geriatric ninja.
**[18:49] Ninja1**
A bear?
**[18:57] Ninja2**
What the... As if it was
running away from something.
**[19:02] Ninja1**
Of course not! What would
a bear be afraid of?
**[19:06] Ninja2**
I suppose you're right...
**[19:21] Ninja1**
What's the matter?
**[19:22] Ninja2**
A d-d-demon...
**[19:33] Ninja1**
He's dead!
**[19:40] Ninja1**
Wh-Wh-What the...
**[20:04] Sagen**
I have heard, that after Kenshin's death,
**[20:09] Sagen**
you left Echigo and
became a freelance ninja.
**[20:12] Sagen**
So why are you still loyal to Uesugi?
**[20:19] Jirobo**
Because Lord Kenshin...
**[20:22] Jirobo**
saved me from being a slave.
**[20:26] Jirobo**
I will never forget
**[20:29] Jirobo**
my debt to him,
as long as I live.
**[20:34] Sagen**
Righteousness due to your indebtedness.
**[20:36] Jirobo**
That's right.
**[20:37] Jirobo**
Righteousness.
**[20:44] Sagen**
So even you are righteous, too.
**[20:46] Sagen**
When Echigo men are righteous,
they also are stubborn.
**[20:58] Sagen**
You must die.
**[21:01] Sagen**
Because it would be a nuisance for me...
**[21:04] Sagen**
if you righteously reported to Naoe
of my search for the Jizo Bodhisattva.
**[21:22] Sagen**
What?
**[21:39] Sagen**
Wh-What the...
**[21:59] Sagen**
Wh-What is this?
***SIGN*** Episode 20 Demon
**[23:41] Nar**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:45] Nar**
Episode 20
"Demon."
**[23:48] Nar**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 20 - Demon
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G6NQJ2ZZ6/gifu-dodo-kanetsugu-and-keiji)
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**[00:12] Jirobo**
*S-Sagen...*
**[00:20] Sagen**
*Back in the days when I worked for Takeda...*
**[00:23] Sagen**
* there was a ninja who ran errands*
* between Nara's Shukuin and Kenshin.*
**[00:30] Sagen**
*As to the Jizo Bodhisattva I seek...*
**[00:33] Sagen**
*do you have it hidden somewhere?*
**[00:37] Jirobo**
*Wh-What are you talking about...*
**[00:41] Sagen**
*Don't play dumb.*
**[00:43] Sagen**
*I know you were Kenshin's number one ninja.*
**[00:50] Sagen**
* You can go to Kenshin's*
* side now, if you like.*
**[00:59] Mosuke**
*Milord.*
**[01:00] Kanetsugu**
*Hm?*
**[01:02] Kanetsugu**
*What's the matter?*
**[01:03] Kanetsugu**
*Still can't get to sleep?*
**[01:06] Mosuke**
*I'm worried about Jirobo.*
**[01:09] Mosuke**
*It's too dangerous for him to go it alone.*
**[01:12] Mosuke**
*I know.*
**[01:13] Mosuke**
*I can go to his aid.*
**[01:18] Mosuke**
*But, milord.*
**[01:19] Kanetsugu**
*Don't worry.*
**[01:21] Kanetsugu**
*Jirobo is not alone.*
**[01:23] Mosuke**
*Huh?*
**[01:25] Kanetsugu**
*That demon is with him.*
**[01:27] Mosuke**
*Demon?*
***SIGN*** Demon
**[03:50] Ninjas**
Wh-What was that beast?
**[03:53] Ninjas**
A demon?
**[03:55] Sagen**
That was... a dog.
**[03:58] Ninjas**
Huh?
**[03:59] Ninjas**
That was a dog?
**[04:00] Sagen**
A hunter dog used for hunting bears.
**[04:03] Sagen**
Furthermore, he's a fighter dog,
trained for battles.
**[04:20] Mosuke**
Huh?
**[04:21] Mosuke**
Jirobo's with that dog?
**[04:24] Kanetsugu**
Indeed.
**[04:26] Kanetsugu**
They're together.
**[04:28] Kanetsugu**
He's hidden from sight
but always has my back...
**[04:32] Kanetsugu**
But this time, he wanted to go to Jirobo.
**[04:35] Kanetsugu**
He dashed off before I could stop him.
**[04:38] Mosuke**
M-Milord.
**[04:40] Mosuke**
Looks like...
**[04:41] Mosuke**
this battle is going to get complicated.
**[04:46] Kanetsugu**
Hm.
**[04:48] Kanetsugu**
That's right.
**[04:51] Kanetsugu**
That fighter dog knows exactly where to go.
**[05:10] Ninja**
The paw prints vanish beyond this point.
**[05:14] Sagen**
That fighter dog is beyond human pursuit.
**[05:19] Ninja**
What should we do?
**[05:20] Sagen**
Hm?
**[05:21] Ninja**
Jirobo is faithful to Kenshin.
**[05:24] Ninja**
He'll probably report our actions to Uesugi.
**[05:28] Sagen**
No...
**[05:29] Sagen**
I assume they already know.
**[05:32] Sagen**
That strategist of Uesugi,
Naoe Kanetsugu...
**[05:36] Sagen**
You can never underestimate him.
**[05:39] Sagen**
We must head to Shukuin,
**[05:41] Sagen**
south of the capital where
the Bodhisattva statue was carved.
**[05:43] Ninja**
Yes.
**[06:16] Jirobo**
Hey...
**[06:19] Jirobo**
you're very thoughtful.
**[06:24] Jirobo**
A boar's liver...
**[06:28] Jirobo**
is the best thing to eat
**[06:31] Jirobo**
to regain your strength.
**[07:00] Jirobo**
I'm all right...
**[07:02] Jirobo**
I'm all right.
**[07:10] Jirobo**
Thanks...
**[07:15] Jirobo**
You came looking for me,
all decked out in armor.
**[07:22] Jirobo**
I owe you one.
**[07:25] Jirobo**
Thank you.
**[07:29] Jirobo**
I'll mend my wounds in this cave for a while.
**[07:51] Jirobo**
You should get some rest, too.
**[07:59] Jirobo**
Hey, there! Stop it!
**[08:04] Jirobo**
I'm wounded, you know?
**[08:08] Jirobo**
Stop it, White Cloud!
**[08:11] Jirobo**
That hurts!
**[08:17] Keiji**
So the so-called demon's
name is White Cloud, huh?
**[08:21] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[08:22] Kanetsugu**
I named him that because
of his bright, white fur.
**[08:26] Keiji**
Who knew, Kanetsugu-dono,
that you had a vassal like that.
**[08:31] Kanetsugu**
Actually, Jirobo raised him.
**[08:34] Keiji**
Oh?
**[08:37] Kanetsugu**
Jirobo raised him as if he were his own son.
**[08:41] Kanetsugu**
And White Cloud is
unconditionally faithful to him...
**[08:46] Kanetsugu**
as if Jirobo were his own father.
**[08:52] Kanetsugu**
They're more than man and dog...
they're father and son.
**[09:02] Keiji**
I see.
**[09:06] Keiji**
They're a congenial father and son.
**[09:10] Keiji**
On the other hand, there's the question
of the Jizo Bodhisattva.
**[09:14] Keiji**
Where was Jirobo headed?
**[09:17] Kanetsugu**
He was on his way to Daiyoin-sama.
**[09:21] Keiji**
Daiyoin?
**[09:23] Kanetsugu**
The widow of the 13th Shogun,
Lord Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
**[09:29] Kanetsugu**
She is the sister of the Chief Advisor,
Lord Konoe Sakihisa,
**[09:34] Kanetsugu**
and of my mother, Princess Tae.
**[09:37] Kanetsugu**
Daiyoin-sama's residence
is called Goreiden.
**[09:44] Kanetsugu**
A place where portraits of generations
of the Konoe clan are ensconced...
**[09:49] Kanetsugu**
along with that Jizo Bodhisattva.
**[09:55] Kanetsugu**
I was told that soon after I was born...
***SIGN*** 1560, Kyoto: Goreiden, the Konoe residence
**[10:12] Daiyoin**
This is from Kagetora-sama?
**[10:14] Jirobo**
Yes.
**[10:16] Jirobo**
He said this is to be kept by Princess Tae.
**[10:21] Daiyoin**
A symbol of the couple's son...
**[10:26] Jirobo**
He asked that you keep the matter secret.
**[10:30] Daiyoin**
The things that those two do...
**[10:36] Daiyoin**
It is only natural they have
produced an offspring...
**[10:49] Daiyoin**
In a season when gardenias
were in full bloom...
***SIGN*** Further back in time, in 1559
**[11:35] Kagetora**
Taehime.
**[11:38] Kagetora**
Do you like that flower?
**[11:46] Taehime**
Ka...
**[11:47] Taehime**
Kagetora-sama.
**[11:57] Taehime**
Oh.
**[12:00] Taehime**
I have a message from my older brother.
**[12:02] Taehime**
The Shogun-sama will be at our house,
the day after tomorrow.
**[12:07] Kagetora**
I appreciate it.
**[12:09] Kagetora**
Sorry you have to do a job like this.
**[12:11] Taehime**
N-No...
**[12:14] Taehime**
I personally requested the job.
**[12:24] Kagetora**
Tae-dono.
**[12:28] Nar**
In 1559...
**[12:31] Nar**
when Uesugi Kenshin still
called himself Nagao Kagetora,
**[12:37] Nar**
he made a majestic
entrance to the capital.
**[12:41] Nar**
The Chief Advisor of the time,
**[12:42] Nar**
Konoe Sakihisa,
was impressed by his presence.
**[12:47] Nar**
He thus planned an alliance with the
Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Kagetora.
**[12:55] Nar**
However, his scheme was
fraught with mortal danger.
**[13:01] Nar**
The reason was because Miyoshi
Nagayoshi and Matsunaga Hisahide
**[13:07] Nar**
were seeking to usurp
leadership of the Shogunate.
**[13:12] Nar**
if they were to learn of his plan,
**[13:14] Nar**
they would have immediately
resorted to ruthless retaliation.
**[13:20] Nar**
Thus, in order to avoid the peril,
to proceed in secrecy,
**[13:25] Nar**
a unique course of action
was set into motion.
**[13:43] Kagetora**
What a hoopla.
**[13:47] Kagetora**
Look at this courtly bunch of youths.
**[13:51] Konoe**
Our Shogun lord, Yoshiteru,
enjoys having banquets with young people.
**[13:56] Konoe**
It's a part of tonight's agenda
because he wants you, Kagetora-dono,
**[13:59] Konoe**
to become accustomed to his ways.
**[14:04] Nar**
"Courtly" was the word used
to describe people who were
**[14:08] Nar**
elegant, delicate and refined.
**[14:32] Taehime**
Let's see if you still think
I'm courtly after this.
**[14:34] Taehime**
Try me.
**[14:39] Kagetora**
You're challenging me to a drinking
contest with that huge cup?
**[14:45] Konoe**
Wh-Wha...
**[15:08] Kagetora**
Splendid.
**[15:10] Taehime**
All right...
**[15:12] Taehime**
your turn.
**[15:14] Konoe**
Umm... Hey now...
**[15:17] Konoe**
Knock it off, Tae!
**[15:19] Kagetora**
Hmm?
**[15:20] Kagetora**
Tae?
**[15:23] Konoe**
She's my little sister.
**[15:26] Kagetora**
Oh?
**[15:30] Konoe**
She's going to be our informant, yours and mine.
**[15:36] Nar**
Indeed, the sibling would never
betray secrets of the alliance...
**[15:43] Nar**
and she is well hidden
as an undercover informant,
**[15:47] Nar**
by mingling with this group of youths.
**[15:54] Kagetora**
Isn't it said
**[15:56] Kagetora**
that a woman's long,
black hair is her lifeline?
**[16:02] Taehime**
No.
**[16:04] Taehime**
The two of you have a dream.
**[16:05] Taehime**
I want to be a part of it.
**[16:09] Keiji**
I see.
**[16:10] Keiji**
She cut off her lifeline,
her black hair...
**[16:14] Keiji**
Lord Kenshin must've been
captivated by her resolve.
**[16:18] Kanetsugu**
No.
**[16:19] Keiji**
Oh?
**[16:19] Kanetsugu**
There was something else about my
mother that captured Lord Kenshin's heart.
**[16:24] Keiji**
Indeed, what could that be?
**[16:27] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[16:28] Kanetsugu**
It could rightly be said,
that it was destiny at work.
**[16:33] Miyoshi**
What?
**[16:35] Miyoshi**
The Chief Advisor plans
to go to Echigo with Kagetora?
**[16:41] Matsunaga**
They'll conquer Kanto first.
**[16:43] Matsunaga**
Then they'll induct the large armies of Kanto,
**[16:47] Matsunaga**
and move to the capital
where Shogun Ashikaga will restore
**[16:51] Matsunaga**
the imperial court's former glory.
**[16:54] Matsunaga**
That's what I've heard.
**[16:57] Miyoshi**
He had me thinking he was indulging
in nightly debaucheries with youths.
**[17:02] Matsunaga**
This is not good.
**[17:03] Matsunaga**
We rule the capital with
our puppet: Shogun Yoshiteru...
**[17:10] Matsunaga**
We'll be ruined if things
go according to their plan.
**[17:13] Miyoshi**
Kagetora must die.
**[17:16] Miyoshi**
There's no other choice.
**[17:29] Youth**
I play this.
**[17:31] Assistant**
Fine.
**[17:31] Assistant**
You may enter.
**[17:51] Taehime**
Intruder!
**[17:53] Assassin**
You're a...
**[18:09] Taehime**
Ka...
**[18:11] Taehime**
Kagetora-sama.
**[18:19] Sakitsugu**
I'm sorry. The Shogun has
suddenly taken ill tonight.
**[18:24] Kagetora**
Is that so?
**[18:27] Kagetora**
I must admit I can't get accustomed
to these courtly banquets.
**[18:33] Sakitsugu**
I suppose you don't share
the Shogun's tastes.
**[18:36] Sakitsugu**
Tae has a good cover here...
**[18:37] Sakitsugu**
Speaking of Tae... Where is she?
**[18:50] Kagetora**
Yeah, yeah!
**[18:53] Kagetora**
The musician is having
more fun than usual tonight.
**[18:57] Sakitsugu**
There's Tae. Over there.
**[19:02] Kagetora**
Hmm?
**[19:03] Kagetora**
Tae-dono...
**[19:09] Sakitsugu**
Uh, hey, Tae...
**[19:13] Taehime**
There are assassins among them.
**[19:15] Taehime**
Don't let your guard down.
**[19:22] Sakitsugu**
Wh-What happened?
**[19:24] Taehime**
I encountered an intruder...
**[19:28] Taehime**
but I failed to...
**[19:32] Kagetora**
Tae-dono.
**[19:32] Sakitsugu**
Tae.
**[19:34] Assassin**
Aa-yo-iyasa-
**[19:58] Assassin**
You...
**[20:00] Assassin**
I thought I had...
**[20:12] Kagetora**
Tae-dono.
**[20:19] Kagetora**
You...
**[20:21] Kagetora**
you are my guardian deity.
**[20:30] Kagetora**
You are Bishamonten.
**[20:52] Taehime**
Sister.
**[20:55] Daiyoin**
Your wound was not in a vital area.
**[21:04] Taehime**
Where did you get the gardenia?
**[21:07] Daiyoin**
Kagetora-sama wanted you to have it...
**[21:11] Daiyoin**
as a hair ornament.
**[21:15] Taehime**
It's from Kagetora-sama?
**[21:25] Jirobo**
So Tae-sama...
**[21:27] Jirobo**
protected Kagetora-sama.
**[21:29] Daiyoin**
Yes.
**[21:30] Daiyoin**
But the vision Lord Kenshin
had at that moment...
**[21:36] Daiyoin**
was not of Bishamonten.
**[21:41] Daiyoin**
I know that he saw her as Kisshoten.
**[21:44] Jirobo**
Kisshoten?
**[21:47] Daiyoin**
Lord Kenshin made
an oath of lifelong celibacy...
**[21:50] Daiyoin**
but their destiny
rendered his oath powerless.
**[21:56] Daiyoin**
Because Kisshoten is
the wife of Bishamonten...
**[22:04] Daiyoin**
as so pronounced by Lord Buddha.
***SIGN*** Episode 21 Downfall and Tethers
**[23:40] Nar**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:44] Nar**
Episode 21
"Downfall and Tethers."
**[23:48] Nar**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 21 - Downfall and Tethers
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***SIGN*** July, 1590
**[00:03] Nar**
In the 6th month, 1590,
***SIGN*** Matsuida Castle
***SIGN*** Hachigata Castle
**[00:06] Nar**
Matsuida Castle was conquered
**[00:09] Nar**
by the allied forces
of Uesugi, Sanada, and Maeda
**[00:12] Nar**
which subsequently besieged
Hachigata Castle.
***SIGN*** Hachioji Castle
**[00:14] Nar**
Hachioji Castle was to be next,
the impregnable protective fortress of Odawara.
***SIGN*** Odawara Castle
***SIGN*** Downfall and Tethers
**[02:00] Nar**
The battle commenced
on the 23rd day of the 6th month.
***SIGN*** July 24, 1590
**[02:05] Nar**
The allied armies of Toyotomi
numbered approximately 15,000 troops.
**[02:09] Nar**
In contrast, approximately 3,000
men defended Hachioji Castle.
**[02:14] Nar**
Their troops consisted of several generals,
but the rest were inducted farmers.
**[02:19] Nar**
As a result, the battle
was over in a single day.
**[02:24] Ally**
Burn it!
**[02:26] Ally**
Burn it to the ground!
**[03:14] Maeda (Toshiie)**
What's the matter, Naoe-dono?
**[03:17] Maeda**
You don't kill women. Is that it?
**[03:20] Maeda**
Or have you forgotten our lord,
the Chief Advisor's command?
**[03:27] Kanestugu**
Our lord's command...
**[03:29] Maeda**
That's right.
**[03:36] Hideyoshi**
How do you like this castle, Kanetsugu?
**[03:40] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[03:41] Hideyoshi**
Look forward to it.
**[03:43] Hideyoshi**
Once we're done with this castle,
**[03:45] Hideyoshi**
Odawara Castle will quickly fall.
**[03:49] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[03:50] Hideyoshi**
Before that happens, however,
there must be a preliminary set-up.
**[03:57] Kanetsugu**
Set-up?
**[03:58] Hideyoshi**
Correct.
**[03:59] Hideyoshi**
Hachioji Castle,
the cornerstone of their defense,
**[04:05] Hideyoshi**
must be devastated.
**[04:08] Hideyoshi**
And in the meantime...
**[04:12] Hideyoshi**
everyone inside the castle must be killed.
**[04:24] Maeda**
Right, then.
**[04:25] Maeda**
Continue your military endeavors.
**[05:02] Mosuke**
Milord.
**[05:03] Mosuke**
This is a cruel siege.
**[05:05] Mosuke**
Most of the women
and children committed suicide.
**[05:14] Kanetsugu**
We, the men,
**[05:17] Kanetsugu**
have murdered them with our obstinacy.
**[05:24] Kanetsugu**
But these deaths...
**[05:27] Kanetsugu**
will bring an end to this war.
**[05:32] Sanada**
Once attacked, the purported
stronghold Hachioji Castle
**[05:35] Sanada**
wasn't much to speak of.
**[05:38] Kagekatsu**
Indeed.
**[05:39] Sanada**
Hojo's downfall is approaching.
**[05:43] Sanada**
But as they say,
it could be us tomorrow.
**[05:47] Sanada**
Who knows how this event
could lead to our own demise?
**[05:52] Sanada**
Let us beware.
**[06:04] Kagekatsu**
The consequences of the downfall...
**[06:09] Kanetsugu**
Lord.
**[06:11] Kanetsugu**
You need not worry.
**[06:13] Kanetsugu**
If my history were to bring
troubles to Uesugi...
**[06:19] Kanetsugu**
you must execute me as a criminal.
**[06:22] Kagekatsu**
What?
**[06:23] Kanetsugu**
That would be the best strategy
to eliminate the source of trouble.
**[06:37] Messenger**
Message!
**[06:38] Messenger**
Message!
**[06:41] Messenger**
Everyone on our side... in the castle...
**[06:45] Messenger**
has been destroyed...
and those who were captured...
**[06:49] Messenger**
of course... there is not
a single survivor among them.
**[06:53] Soldier**
Hey!
**[06:55] Ujinao**
D-Did Hachioji Castle f-finally fall, too?
**[07:04] Ujinao**
D-Damn you, Hideyoshi!
**[07:25] Hideyoshi**
Well done, Kanetsugu,
for bringing down Hachioji Castle.
**[07:32] Hideyoshi**
It was greatly honorable.
**[07:35] Hideyoshi**
Hm?
**[07:36] Hideyoshi**
What's the matter?
**[07:37] Hideyoshi**
Don't like my shoulder massage?
**[07:41] Kanetsugu**
Hojo...
**[07:43] Hideyoshi**
Hm?
**[07:44] Kanetsugu**
has crumbled, within and without.
**[07:47] Hideyoshi**
So?
**[07:49] Kanetsugu**
There were excessive
betrayals among their clan.
**[07:52] Kanetsugu**
The insurrection of their most
prominent vassal since Hojo Soun,
**[07:57] Kanetsugu**
Matsuda Norihide...
**[07:59] Kanetsugu**
was especially devastating.
**[08:01] Kanetsugu**
And now, Hachioji Castle has fallen...
**[08:03] Kanetsugu**
I see no reason to compound
their losses with more death.
**[08:09] Kanetsugu**
At Hachioji Castle,
many of the women and children
**[08:13] Kanetsugu**
had turned the blade upon themselves.
**[08:16] Hideyoshi**
I see... so they've been slaughtered,
every one of them.
**[08:20] Hideyoshi**
Which means...
**[08:23] Hideyoshi**
the time has now come.
**[08:26] Hideyoshi**
As I had promised you...
**[08:29] Hideyoshi**
that if you bring down Hachioji Castle...
**[08:32] Hideyoshi**
I would show you
my ingenious resourcefulness.
**[08:36] Hideyoshi**
Now is a good time to fulfill that promise.
**[08:50] Hideyoshi**
Observe well, Kanetsugu!
**[08:57] Kanetsugu**
That is...
**[09:06] Hojo soldier1**
Huh?
**[09:08] Hojo soldier2**
What is that?
**[09:20] Kanetsugu**
What is this?
**[09:21] Hideyoshi**
Go!
**[09:22] Hideyoshi**
Let Hojo get an eyeful of this!
**[09:53] Soldier1**
Lord!
**[09:56] Ujinao**
What now?
**[10:12] Ujimasa**
I heard they were building
a fortress on Mount Kasakage...
**[10:18] Ujimasa**
Who'd have thought it would be so big?
**[10:27] Ujimasa**
Damn you and your
ostentatious antics, Hideyoshi!
**[10:33] Ujinao**
Father...
**[10:36] Ujinao**
I think we're doomed.
**[10:37] Ujimasa**
Hm?
**[10:39] Ujinao**
I think we're doomed.
**[10:41] Ujimasa**
What?
**[10:42] Ujinao**
Hideyoshi is showing off his
"overnight castle"...
**[10:46] Ujinao**
not to us, but to the soldiers
and people in our castle.
**[10:51] Ujinao**
Our castle might be impregnable,
but it's people who defend it, after all.
**[10:58] Ujinao**
That overnight castle...
is enough to demoralize our troops.
**[11:10] Hideyoshi**
Kanetsugu.
**[11:11] Hideyoshi**
Let this sight impress itself upon your eyes.
**[11:15] Hideyoshi**
Takeda Shingen, Lord Nobunaga,
**[11:18] Hideyoshi**
and even Uesugi Kenshin
couldn't pull it off...
**[11:25] Hideyoshi**
But I have conquered Odawara Castle!
**[11:39] Nar**
Hojo Ujinao made a plea to have
the lives of his troops spared,
**[11:43] Nar**
in exchange for performing seppuku.
**[11:46] Nar**
Hideyoshi consented, and thereby,
Odawara came to an end.
**[11:52] Nar**
But Ujinao was given amnesty
and banished to Mount Koya.
**[11:57] Nar**
His father, Hojo Ujimasa,
and others committed seppuku.
**[12:02] Nar**
Beginning with Hojo Soun,
the Hojo clan reigned over the Kanto area
**[12:06] Nar**
for five generations, but now
their lineage had reached its end.
**[12:23] Kagekatsu**
Such unbearable sadness...
**[12:27] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[12:28] Kanetsugu**
Odawara Castle,
said to be impregnable...
**[12:31] Kagekatsu**
devastated so easily.
**[12:34] Kanetsugu**
Lord.
**[12:35] Kagekatsu**
Hm?
**[12:36] Kanetsugu**
This soundscape resembles human screams,
but what is it that you hear?
**[12:45] Kanetsugu**
Do you hear the commotion of troops
and people who were in the castle...
**[12:49] Kanetsugu**
or is it the sound of their souls departing?
**[12:58] Kanetsugu**
What would Lord Kenshin
have said about this?
**[13:11] Kagekatsu**
Lord Kenshin.
**[13:18] Kanetsugu**
This is, indeed, the wail of souls,
of the five generations of Hojo.
**[13:39] Suibara**
Why the hell is he so stubborn?
**[13:43] Kanetsugu**
What's the matter, Suibara-dono?
**[13:48] Suibara**
I'm talking about our lord.
**[13:51] Kanetsugu**
Our lord?
**[13:53] Suibara**
Well, you see, he's frustrating me to no end.
**[14:01] Kanetsugu**
He's frustrating you?
**[14:02] Suibara**
Mmm.
**[14:03] Suibara**
He's been married to Kikuhime-sama
of the Takeda clan for eleven years...
**[14:12] Suibara**
and not a single offspring to show for it!
**[14:19] Suibara**
So I told him...
Find a concubine!
**[14:25] Suibara**
In the best interest of Uesugi.
**[14:27] Suibara**
But he said... but he said...
**[14:30] Suibara**
to mind my own business.
**[14:39] Suibara**
He was so angry that he could've killed me!
**[14:45] Suibara**
The downfall of the Hojo clan...
It could happen to us!
**[14:52] Suibara**
What if he has no heir?
**[14:58] Suibara**
There's bound to be internal strife
as to who will be Uesugi's successor!
**[15:03] Suibara**
I can't forget the Battle of Otate,
which happened after Lord Kenshin died.
**[15:11] Suibara**
Arrgh... What will become of Uesugi?
**[15:15] Suibara**
I'm so worried, I can't stand it.
**[15:22] Kanetsugu**
I could understand why
Suibara-dono felt the way he did.
**[15:27] Keiji**
As I recall, Kagetora-dono fought
Kagekatsu-dono for successorship...
**[15:33] Keiji**
as he, too, was an adopted
son of Lord Kenshin.
**[15:36] Kanetsugu**
Thus, the Uesugi were split right in half...
**[15:40] Kanetsugu**
and blood was spilled.
**[15:42] Keiji**
In reaction to Hojo's downfall,
anxieties arose about Uesugi's future...
**[16:14] Kanetsugu**
Lord.
**[16:15] Kanetsugu**
Suibara-dono acted strictly out of loyalty.
**[16:20] Kanetsugu**
Perhaps finding a concubine is a good idea?
**[16:23] Kakegatsu**
How could I do such a thing?
**[16:26] Kagekatsu**
The Takeda clan...
Kikuhime's home was destroyed.
**[16:32] Kagekatsu**
When I think
**[16:35] Kagekatsu**
of Kikuhime's sadness...
**[16:38] Kagekatsu**
I cannot conceive of finding a concubine.
**[16:41] Nar**
It could be said that
in the civil war era, Kagekatsu's
**[16:45] Nar**
compassion for Kikuhime was extraordinary...
**[16:50] Nar**
but Kagekatsu was that kind of man.
**[16:55] Kanetsugu**
Lord...
**[16:56] Kagekatsu**
When Lord Kenshin died,
if it weren't for Takeda's support...
**[17:02] Kagekatsu**
we would've been killed
in the Battle of Otate.
**[17:08] Kagekatsu**
I am indebted to Takeda's honor.
**[17:12] Kagekatsu**
Indeed...
**[17:15] Kagekatsu**
I am undeserving of it.
**[17:18] Kanetsugu**
What are you saying?
**[17:19] Kagekatsu**
I had a vision.
**[17:21] Kagekatsu**
Lord Kenshin is still with you.
**[17:29] Kagekatsu**
Kanetsugu.
**[17:31] Kagekatsu**
You know the truth about me.
**[17:34] Kagekatsu**
How can you not hate me?
**[17:37] Kanetsugu**
Then let me ask you, Lord.
Did you not hate me?
**[17:43] Kagekatsu**
What?
**[17:44] Kanetsugu**
Or were you lying when
you spoke those words?
**[17:49] Kagekatsu**
"Those words"?
**[17:51] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[17:52] Kanetsugu**
Sentoin-sama told me...
**[17:55] Keiji**
"Those words"?
**[17:57] Kanetsugu**
Back in the day when
Kagekatsu-sama was still called Kiheiji...
**[18:01] Kanetsugu**
the Uesugi clan was split into two factions,
**[18:04] Kanetsugu**
and there was internal strife.
**[18:07] Kanetsugu**
Lord Kenshin adopted Kiheiji-sama
in the hope of quelling the discord.
**[18:14] Kanetsugu**
In the meantime, however,
Kiheiji-sama's father died...
**[18:20] Kanetsugu**
the event made him
suspicious of Lord Kenshin.
**[18:24] Kanetsugu**
It was at such a time that
Kiheiji-sama's mother, Sentoin-sama,
**[18:29] Kanetsugu**
informed him that I was
the true son of Lord Kenshin.
**[18:33] Keiji**
How did Kagekatsu-dono react?
**[18:36] Kanetsugu**
I was told that he said...
**[18:41] Chibi-Kagekatsu**
I vow to tether myself
to Higuchi Yoroku, Lord Kenshin's son...
**[18:44] Chibi-Kagekatsu**
and we together shall be
the guardians of Echigo.
**[18:48] Kanetsugu**
He said he suspected no one of wrongdoing.
**[18:52] Keiji**
Such immaculate innocence.
**[18:55] Kanetsugu**
Kagekatsu-sama was only
nine years old at the time.
**[18:58] Kanetsugu**
But I was told, that ever since then...
**[19:02] Kanetsugu**
he became prone to extreme introversion.
**[19:06] Keiji**
Perhaps his innocent heart grew cold,
**[19:10] Keiji**
from all the sorrows he was trying to hide.
**[19:15] Kagekatsu**
...tethered as guardians of Echigo...
**[19:18] Kagekatsu**
I do remember...
**[19:21] Kanetsugu**
So go ahead and slug me,
if it makes you feel better.
**[19:23] Kanetsugu**
Lord, you are always slow to speak.
**[19:26] Kanetsugu**
That's why you always become quiet.
**[19:27] Kanetsugu**
When you're bottled up,
it makes your stomach turn.
**[19:29] Kagekatsu**
What?
**[19:31] Kanetsugu**
Go on.
**[19:32] Kanetsugu**
Throw a punch.
**[19:33] Kanetsugu**
Let your fist communicate your true feelings.
**[19:43] Kagekatsu**
All right.
**[19:54] Kanetsugu**
Th-That was a good one...
**[19:59] Kagekatsu**
Now it's your turn.
**[20:03] Kanetsugu**
I must warn you that I've got an iron fist.
**[20:06] Kagekatsu**
I am commanding you.
**[20:08] Kanetsugu**
In that case, pardon me.
**[20:14] Suibara**
Wh-What was that noise in there?
**[20:21] Suibara**
Well, well, well.
What on earth is happening here?
**[20:30] Suibara**
L-Lord!
**[20:34] Suibara**
H-He's laughing.
**[20:36] Suibara**
The lord is laughing.
**[20:39] Nar**
Kagekatsu laughed.
**[20:42] Nar**
Perhaps no one had ever
seen him laugh before.
**[20:47] Nar**
It was a most refreshing sight to see.
**[20:52] Kanetsugu**
Lord.
**[20:56] Kagekatsu**
How could I ever hold a grudge against you...
**[20:59] Kagekatsu**
You have always been my little brother
**[21:04] Kagekatsu**
and brothers do punch
each other occasionally.
**[21:08] Kanetsugu**
I now know your true feelings.
**[21:13] Kagekatsu**
Then you should know,
that I don't want an heir.
**[21:17] Kagekatsu**
Kanetsugu.
**[21:18] Kagekatsu**
It is you who must produce an heir.
**[21:21] Kagekatsu**
And it is he who shall be
the successor of Uesugi.
**[21:25] Suibara**
Huh?
**[21:26] Kanetsugu**
L-Lord...
**[21:28] Nar**
Subsequently, Kagekatsu and his wife, Kikuhime, never had a child.
**[21:35] Nar**
But to enforce his will,
Kagekatsu nonetheless took a concubine,
**[21:39] Nar**
who bore him a son.
**[21:42] Nar**
Kagekatsu was fifty years old at the time.
**[21:46] Kanetsugu**
Kagekatsu-sama...
**[21:48] Kakegatsu**
There'll be no more talk from
you about dying as a criminal.
**[21:56] Kanetsugu**
Ordering a samurai to not die...
now that's a harsh command.
**[22:06] Suibara**
Oh?
**[22:08] Suibara**
Huh?
***SIGN*** Episode 22 The Whereabouts of the Bodhisattva Statue
**[23:40] Nar**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:44] Narr**
Episode 22
"The Whereabouts of the Bodhisattva Statue."
**[23:49] Narr**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 22 - The Whereabouts of the Bodhisattva Statue
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**[00:26] Hideyoshi**
Kanetsugu.
**[00:27] Hideyoshi**
Let this sight impress itself on your eyes.
**[00:31] Hideyoshi**
Takeda Shingen, Lord Nobunaga,
**[00:34] Hideyoshi**
and even Uesugi Kenshin
couldn't pull it off...
**[00:41] Hideyoshi**
But I have conquered Odawara Castle!
**[00:47] Keiji**
So that was the downfall
that ended five generations
**[00:51] Keiji**
of the Hojo clan after Soun.
**[00:54] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[00:56] Kanetsugu**
A castle might be impregnable,
**[00:58] Kanetsugu**
but it's people who defend it, after all.
**[01:01] Kanetsugu**
That overnight castle...
**[01:03] Kanetsugu**
is enough to demoralize our troops.
**[01:09] Kanetsugu**
And that is what...
**[01:10] Kanetsugu**
the Hojo father and son came to realize
**[01:12] Kanetsugu**
at that time...
**[01:19] Kanetsugu**
And...
**[01:21] Kanetsugu**
It wasn't long before
Odawara came to an end.
**[01:28] Kanetsugu**
There was a man who
showed up at Uesugi's camp...
**[01:34] Guard**
Whoops.
**[01:35] Guard**
Huh?
**[01:36] Guard**
Wow.
**[01:37] Guard**
Big!
**[01:38] Guard**
What the...
**[01:46] Sakon**
Nice day we're having.
**[01:49] Guard**
Uh... Yeah...
***SIGN*** The Whereabouts of the Bodhisattva Statue
**[03:32] Varlet**
Milord.
**[03:33] Kanetsugu**
Hm?
**[03:35] Varket**
Shima Sakon-sama is here.
**[03:37] Kanetsugu**
Well...
**[03:38] Varlet**
He has come from Yamato,
as a messenger of Toyotomi Hidenaga-sama.
**[03:43] Kanetsugu**
What?!
**[03:44] Kanetsugu**
From Lord Toyotomi Hidenaga of Yamato?
**[03:47] Nar**
Toyotomi Hidenaga...
**[03:50] Nar**
is the younger brother of Hideyoshi.
**[03:53] Nar**
There was a saying
in the rulership of Toyotomi:
**[03:54] Nar**
"Rikyu is in charge of internal affairs.
**[03:57] Nar**
Hidenaga is in charge of public affairs."
**[04:00] Nar**
Hidenaga was Hideyoshi's most
trustworthy right-hand man.
**[04:04] Nar**
But now, he was bedridden from illness
***SIGN*** Ando
***SIGN*** Tenri
***SIGN*** Kawanishi
***SIGN*** Sakurai
***SIGN*** Heigun
***SIGN*** Misato
***SIGN*** Oji
***SIGN*** Ikaruga
***SIGN*** Nara
***SIGN*** Yamatokoriyama
**[04:08] Nar**
at the mountain castle
of his fief at Yamato Province.
**[04:10] Nar**
His ailing health kept him
from the Odawara encampment.
**[04:13] Nar**
Hence Sakon was dispatched
to convey Hidenaga's message.
**[04:23] Sakon**
Nara's sculptors of Shukuin
have been murdered.
**[04:29] Sakon**
The culprits were Iga ninjas.
**[04:43] Sakon**
Shukuin is Hidenaga-sama's
home away from home,
**[04:47] Sakon**
thus I get news of everything
that happens there.
**[04:52] Kanetsugu**
The Iga ninjas are
Tokugawa's men...
**[04:55] Kanetsugu**
they are in search of
a Jizo Bodhisattva statue.
**[04:59] Sakon**
You knew of this?
**[05:02] Sakon**
In that case, my job here is done.
**[05:04] Sakon**
If you will pardon me.
**[05:13] Kanetsugu**
This kind of job is beneath
your position, Shima-dono.
**[05:19] Sakon**
Uesugi of the eastern provinces
is keeping Tokugawa in check...
**[05:23] Sakon**
If it weren't for you,
the Toyotomi empire would not exist.
**[05:28] Sakon**
We need you,
**[05:29] Sakon**
as long as Ieyasu's ambition
burns for national conquest.
**[05:34] Sakon**
That is the message
of Hidenaga-sama for you.
**[05:40] Sakon**
However, the matter
**[05:41] Sakon**
is to be kept strictly under wraps.
**[05:44] Sakon**
If others catch wind of it...
**[05:48] Kanetsugu**
Hold it!
**[05:50] Sakon**
What?
**[06:01] Keiji**
Stop right there.
**[06:04] Kanetsugu**
Hm?
**[06:05] Keiji**
Turn the story back.
**[06:07] Keiji**
Didn't White Cloud and
Jirobo head to the capital?
**[06:12] Kanetsugu**
Oh, yes.
**[06:15] Kanetsugu**
White Cloud came to inform
us about Jirobo's situation.
**[06:24] Sakon**
What is this...
**[06:25] Kanetsugu**
This is White Cloud,
a fighter dog...
**[06:28] Kanetsugu**
He is a vassal of mine.
**[06:30] Sakon**
You don't say...
**[06:34] Kanetsugu**
Attendant of Jirobo.
**[06:37] Kanetsugu**
You have done well.
**[06:41] Kanetsugu**
Hm?
**[06:46] Sakon**
He even carries messages?
**[06:47] Kanetsugu**
It would take two days for
White Cloud to reach the capital.
**[06:53] Sakon**
Well, in a matter of two days, you say!
**[06:58] Sakon**
What's the matter?
**[07:00] Kanetsugu**
According to the report,
the Jizo Bodhisattva has been taken.
**[07:06] Sakon**
What?
**[07:07] Sakon**
By Tokugawa?
**[07:11] Kanetsugu**
No... You see...
**[07:35] Daiyoin**
Are you a messenger from the afterlife?
**[07:39] Jirobo**
It has been a long time...
**[07:40] Jirobo**
It is I, Jirobo, Lord Kenshin's ninja.
**[07:44] Daiyoin**
Draw near.
**[07:47] Daiyoin**
Let me see you...
**[07:54] Daiyoin**
Your face...
**[07:56] Daiyoin**
I have never forgotten you.
**[07:59] Daiyoin**
Thank you for watching out for Taehime.
**[08:04] Jirobo**
Yes.
**[08:06] Daiyoin**
What can I do for you?
**[08:10] Jirobo**
Where is Lord Kenshin's Jizo Bodhisattva?
**[08:16] Jirobo**
I can't find it anywhere in here.
**[08:22] Daiyoin**
He...
**[08:25] Daiyoin**
took it away.
**[08:27] Jirobo**
"He"?
**[08:29] Daiyoin**
Yes.
**[08:31] Daiyoin**
It was the year 1582...
**[08:43] Daiyoin**
What is the matter?
**[08:45] Daiyoin**
Why are you so nervous?
**[08:48] Daiyoin**
Calm yourself.
**[08:51] Servant**
O-O-Oda-sama is...
**[08:54] Daiyoin**
Oda-sama?
**[08:58] Servant**
O-Oda... ma...
**[09:15] Jirobo**
Lord Oda Nobunaga?
**[09:18] Sakon**
My goodness.
**[09:22] Sakon**
This war is bigger than anticipated.
**[09:25] Sakon**
An unexpected actor has entered the stage...
**[09:30] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[09:36] Daiyoin**
Lord.
**[09:38] Daiyoin**
Our resident headmaster
is not here at this time.
**[09:41] Nobunaga**
I know.
**[09:43] Nobunaga**
Doesn't matter.
**[09:50] Nobunaga**
Hey, Kenshin.
**[09:52] Nobunaga**
Echigo's downfall is impending.
**[09:54] Nobunaga**
The land of your righteousness.
**[09:57] Daiyoin**
Is this true, Lord?
**[10:00] Nar**
At that time, Echigo had
been completed surrounded
**[10:03] Nar**
by Oda's armies, in three directions.
**[10:06] Nar**
Indeed, their doom was imminent.
**[10:10] Nobunaga**
Daiyoin.
**[10:12] Nobunaga**
I'm told the eyes of this Jizo
**[10:13] Nobunaga**
are copies of the eyes
of Kenshin and Taehime's son.
**[10:18] Daiyoin**
Yes.
**[10:20] Daiyoin**
Thus, the statue has been here
by Taehime's memorial tablet.
**[10:23] Nobunaga**
There is nothing in the world
more imbued with Kenshin's spirit...
**[10:27] Nobunaga**
than this statue.
**[10:29] Nobunaga**
It means that it is...
**[10:31] Nobunaga**
Kenshin himself!
**[10:34] Daiyoin**
Wh-What are you doing...
**[10:37] Nobunaga**
Oh, Jizo Bodhisattva,
accompany me on my journey.
**[10:40] Nobunaga**
We shall be going to Echigo right away.
**[10:43] Nobunaga**
Echigo will be ruled by me...
witness it with your eyes.
**[10:49] Daiyoin**
This is an outrage.
**[10:50] Daiyoin**
Why are you doing this?
**[11:03] Daiyoin**
Lord.
**[11:08] Nobunaga**
Out of everything in these times of civil war...
**[11:11] Nobunaga**
Kenshin has always been my greatest fear.
**[11:15] Nobunaga**
And to me, my most feared enemy,
is also my truest friend.
**[11:27] Daiyoin**
Lord.
**[11:29] Nobunaga**
I am taking this to honor my friend.
**[11:38] Daiyoin**
I am certain I saw...
**[11:43] Daiyoin**
sadness in his eyes.
**[11:53] Jirobo**
And...
**[11:54] Jirobo**
where did he take the Bodhisattva statue?
**[11:57] Daiyoin**
Nobody knows.
**[12:01] Jirobo**
What?
**[12:02] Daiyoin**
The next day...
**[12:06] Daiyoin**
who knew such a thing would happen...
**[12:11] Jirobo**
N-No...
**[12:19] Daiyoin**
It happened...
**[12:24] Daiyoin**
The Honnoji Temple Incident.
**[13:28] Nobunaga**
Frolicking with the moon
from the southern watchtower,
**[13:38] Nobunaga**
I, too, will hide behind a convenient cloud,
even before the moon.
**[13:47] Nobunaga**
Compared to the transforming heavens,
**[14:02] Nobunaga**
the human life of fifty years
is but a dream, a mirage.
**[14:22] Nobunaga**
Once one is born,
**[14:28] Nobunaga**
is there anyone who will not die?
**[14:34] Nobunaga**
Is there anyone who will not die?
**[14:41] Nobunaga**
Is there anyone who will not die?
**[15:02] Keiji**
So, it went to Honnoji...
**[15:08] Keiji**
if that's the case, it's lost for good.
**[15:12] Keiji**
Who'd imagine that Lord Nobunaga
**[15:17] Keiji**
took it with him to the afterlife?
**[15:20] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[15:21] Keiji**
The Jizo Bodhisattva was burned,
**[15:24] Keiji**
and the curtains came down
on Lord Ieyasu's schemes.
**[15:28] Kanetsugu**
So it seems...
**[15:30] Keiji**
What?
**[15:31] Keiji**
That's not what happened?
**[15:33] Kanetsugu**
Well, one unexpected thing led to another...
**[15:44] Jirobo**
Show yourself.
**[15:46] Jirobo**
Sagen.
**[16:07] Sagen**
Jirobo.
**[16:09] Sagen**
You cannot escape me.
**[16:17] Jirobo**
How did you know I was here?
**[16:20] Sagen**
There was a sculptor
of Nara's Shukuin who said
**[16:22] Sagen**
he had seen the Bodhisattva
statue at Honnoji Temple...
**[16:26] Sagen**
the day before the Honnoji Incident.
**[16:31] Jirobo**
And?
**[16:32] Sagen**
If it were hidden somewhere around here...
**[16:35] Sagen**
I knew you'd show up eventually.
**[16:40] Jirobo**
Too bad...
**[16:42] Jirobo**
that Jizo Bodhisattva went up
in flames with Lord Nobunaga.
**[16:47] Sagen**
And you expect me to believe that?
**[16:50] Jirobo**
It's a fact.
**[16:53] Sagen**
In that case...
**[16:56] Sagen**
we'll have to ask your body, once again.
**[17:02] Sagen**
Hm?
**[17:03] Jirobo**
Kill me.
**[17:07] Jirobo**
I don't know where it is.
**[17:09] Jirobo**
You don't know where it is.
**[17:11] Jirobo**
No one knows where it is.
**[17:16] Jirobo**
At least Uesugi is protected now.
**[17:22] Sagen**
Damn you!
**[17:26] Voice**
I know.
**[17:29] Sagen**
What?
**[17:30] Voice**
I know where the Jizo Bodhisattva is.
**[17:35] Jirobo**
What?
**[17:53] Sagen**
What the...
**[17:54] Jirobo**
He's no ordinary old man.
**[17:56] Jirobo**
He went completely undetected by us.
**[17:59] Sagen**
Who are you?
**[18:02] Man**
I'm the caretaker...
**[18:08] Man**
of Lord Nobunaga's grave.
**[18:13] Jirobo**
This...
**[18:15] Jirobo**
is Lord Nobunaga's grave?
**[18:22] Man**
Yeah.
**[18:23] Man**
This is where his lordship died.
**[18:26] Man**
There wasn't even a bone remaining of him.
**[18:30] Man**
Could there be a more
appropriate place for his grave?
**[18:38] Sagen**
And?
**[18:39] Sagen**
Where's the Jizo?
**[18:43] Man**
I hid that Jizo in a specific place,
**[18:48] Man**
by his lordship's command.
**[18:50] Sagen**
What?
**[18:53] Man**
That's right.
**[18:54] Man**
I hid it in a cemetery,
**[18:57] Man**
beneath a headstone.
**[18:59] Sagen**
Then tell us.
**[19:01] Man**
Sure.
**[19:02] Man**
I'll tell you.
**[19:07] Man**
First you, Jirobo.
**[19:10] Man**
Lend me your ears.
**[19:13] Jirobo**
What?
**[19:24] Jirobo**
Oh... What was that...
**[19:29] Man**
Don't worry. Sagen couldn't hear it.
**[19:33] Jirobo**
Splendid skill.
**[19:34] Jirobo**
That was the "hidden speech" technique.
**[19:37] Sagen**
The "hidden speech" technique?
**[19:39] Man**
Sagen.
**[19:40] Man**
Now you lend me your ears.
**[19:50] Sagen**
What is this...
**[19:54] Sagen**
But, it's not enough information.
**[19:57] Sagen**
What's the name on the headstone?
**[20:03] Man**
I told it to Jirobo.
**[20:10] Jirobo**
It seems he told you where the cemetery is...
**[20:14] Jirobo**
and he told me the name on the headstone.
**[20:20] Man**
In other words...
**[20:22] Man**
if you two are joined,
**[20:24] Man**
you'll easily find the Bodhisattva statue.
**[20:29] Jirobo**
But if he knows the cemetery,
**[20:32] Jirobo**
they could dig up each and every grave there.
**[20:35] Man**
Do you think I'd tell him about
some worthless cemetery like that?
**[20:39] Man**
What do you say, Sagen?
**[20:43] Man**
And you, too, Jirobo.
**[20:45] Man**
You can't take the name on the
headstone to your own grave, either.
**[20:52] Man**
Because notwithstanding
the kind of cemetery it is...
**[20:54] Man**
there's a chance Sagen might go on a dig,
**[20:57] Man**
and find the statue.
**[21:00] Man**
Which would be a problem for you.
**[21:11] Man**
The two of you better learn to get along.
**[21:18] Sagen**
Damn you...
**[21:20] Sagen**
such ridiculous mendacity.
**[21:22] Sagen**
I don't believe you!
**[21:35] Man**
So you don't believe me, huh?
**[21:38] Man**
In that case...
**[21:42] Man**
How about now?
**[21:51] Jirobo**
Th-That face...
**[21:54] Sagen**
Lord Nobunaga!
***SIGN*** Episode 23: The Warrior's Place of Death
**[23:41] Nar**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:45] Nar**
Episode 23
"The Warrior's Place of Death."
**[23:49] Nar**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 23 - The Warrior's Place of Death
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**[00:03] Nobunaga**
*Out of everything in these times of civil war...*
**[00:07] Nobunaga**
*Kenshin has always been my greatest fear.*
**[00:10] Nobunaga**
* And to me, my most feared enemy,*
* is also my truest friend.*
**[00:20] Nobunaga**
*I am taking this to honor my friend.*
***SIGN*** The Warrior's Place of Death
**[02:22] Ieyasu**
I see...
**[02:25] Ieyasu**
Lord Nobunaga took the Jizo Bodhisattva...
**[02:31] Ii**
That Lord Nobunaga again.
**[02:33] Ii**
He's a constant thorn in your side, Lord.
**[02:37] Ieyasu**
It's worth it.
**[02:38] Ieyasu**
It was Lord Nobunaga who inspired me
**[02:41] Ieyasu**
to dream of national conquest.
**[02:46] Ii**
That makes it all the more unbearable.
**[02:49] Ii**
The nation would be in your hands
if it weren't for Hideyoshi.
**[02:58] Ieyasu**
Not yet. Not yet.
**[03:00] Ieyasu**
Not yet. Not yet.
**[03:02] Ieyasu**
The nation belongs to no one yet.
**[03:08] Ii**
Wh-What?
**[03:11] Hanzo**
Recently, the Chief Advisor
has been wetting his bed.
**[03:17] Ii**
W-W-Wetting his bed?
**[03:32] Hideyoshi**
I've wet the bed.
**[03:36] Hanzo**
I assume he has a kidney ailment.
**[03:39] Hanzo**
You could say it's an unexpected ambush.
**[03:42] Ii**
The Chief Advisor has a kidney ailment?
**[03:47] Ieyasu**
The nation is obstinate...
**[03:50] Ieyasu**
It constantly refuses to belong to one ruler.
**[03:53] Ieyasu**
You have to fight to have longevity.
**[03:59] Ii**
Lord.
**[04:00] Ieyasu**
The nation will smile upon him...
**[04:03] Ieyasu**
who has outlived all others.
**[04:07] Ieyasu**
That's bitter.
**[04:09] Ii**
Lord! Forgive me.
**[04:11] Ii**
I was thinking you had
given up on national conquest.
**[04:14] Ii**
And all this time, Lord, you've been...
**[04:16] Ieyasu**
Not yet.
**[04:18] Ieyasu**
Not yet.
**[04:23] Ieyasu**
Not yet.
**[04:25] Ieyasu**
Not yet.
**[04:27] Ieyasu**
My dream of national conquest
is not yet fulfilled.
**[04:32] Ieyasu**
Not yet.
**[04:34] Ieyasu**
Not yet.
**[04:37] Nar**
In fact, eight years later,
Hideyoshi died at the age of 61.
**[04:44] Nar**
But Ieyasu lived eighteen
more years thereafter...
**[04:49] Nar**
and became the absolute ruler of the nation.
**[04:54] Keiji**
There you go again.
**[04:55] Keiji**
Wait!
**[04:56] Kanetsugu**
Hmm?
**[04:57] Keiji**
What happened to the caretaker?
**[04:59] Keiji**
The old man who appeared
to Jirobo and Sagen,
**[05:01] Keiji**
at the ruins of Honnoji Temple.
**[05:04] Keiji**
Who the hell was he?
**[05:07] Keiji**
I'm talking about that old man
**[05:09] Keiji**
who said he hid the Jizo Bodhisattva
**[05:11] Keiji**
by Lord Nobunaga's command.
**[05:15] Keiji**
Tell me more about him.
**[05:18] Kanetsugu**
Oh, yeah. I forgot.
**[05:22] Kanetsugu**
Well,
**[05:23] Kanetsugu**
he was an extremely unusual fellow.
**[05:36] Jirobo**
Oh... what was that...
**[05:45] Sagen**
What is this...
**[05:51] Jirobo**
It seems he told you where the cemetery is...
**[05:54] Jirobo**
and he told me the name on the headstone.
**[06:00] Sagen**
Damn you...
**[06:02] Sagen**
such ridiculous mendacity.
**[06:04] Sagen**
I don't believe you!
**[06:14] Man**
So you don't believe me, huh?
**[06:17] Man**
In that case...
**[06:21] Man**
How about now?
**[06:31] Jirobo**
You are...
**[06:43] Jirobo**
Th-That face...
**[06:46] Sagen**
Lord Nobunaga's ninja...
**[06:49] Sagen**
Ban Tarozaemon!
**[06:52] Jirobo**
You were supposed to
have died with Nobunaga,
**[06:54] Jirobo**
in the Honnoji Temple incident!
**[06:57] Sagen**
What's the meaning of these antics?
**[07:04] Tarozaemon**
Don't you know?
**[07:06] Tarozaemon**
This is Uesugi and Tokugawa's war.
**[07:08] Tarozaemon**
Now what could be more
entertaining than that?
**[07:15] Tarozaemon**
Lord Nobunaga and I...
**[07:19] Tarozaemon**
will enjoy this war together.
**[07:35] Sakon**
So he gave the cemetery's location
and the name on the headstone separately...
**[07:39] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[07:40] Sakon**
And what become of the ninja, Jirobo?
**[07:47] Sagen**
Don't bother.
**[07:54] Kanetsugu**
Probably...
**[07:56] Kanetsugu**
the two of them were at a stalemate.
**[07:59] Kanetsugu**
And after he had
White Cloud deliver this letter,
**[08:02] Kanetsugu**
Sagen headed to the cemetery,
and Jirobo went after him.
**[08:18] Sakon**
I see...
**[08:20] Sakon**
So that's how it was.
**[08:24] Sakon**
Speaking of which, where is that fighter dog?
**[08:30] Kanetsugu**
He couldn't help himself.
**[08:32] Kanetsugu**
He must've gone after Jirobo.
**[08:39] Sakon**
Farewell.
**[08:41] Kanetsugu**
I wish I could have been
more hospitable.
**[08:44] Mosuke**
Yes.
**[08:47] Kanetsugu**
This is sake from Echigo.
**[08:49] Mosuke**
Please.
**[08:50] Sakon**
I am grateful.
**[08:52] Sakon**
Let us drink together next time.
**[08:54] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[08:57] Mosuke**
Huh?
**[09:05] Mosuke**
Who is that guy?
**[09:08] Sakon**
Hand me the spear.
**[09:12] Sakon**
I am familiar with these people.
**[09:24] ---**
Above you!
**[09:40] Sakon**
Hold on.
**[09:42] Sakon**
That is not necessary.
**[09:44] Mosuke**
Huh?
**[09:45] Mosuke**
Why?
**[09:52] Sakon**
You are in front of Uesugi's main encampment.
**[09:54] Sakon**
You have behaved insolently.
**[09:59] Sakon**
Get out. Now!
**[10:13] Sakon**
Pardon me.
**[10:25] Jirobo**
Such clear skies.
**[10:28] Jirobo**
Perfect weather for traveling.
**[10:31] Jirobo**
Don't you think so, Sagen-dono?
**[10:35] Jirobo**
Huh?
**[10:39] Sagen**
Don't talk loosely with me.
**[10:41] Jirobo**
We're travel companions.
**[10:43] Jirobo**
Like Tarozaemon suggested, let's get along.
**[10:47] Sagen**
Are you trying to be funny?
**[10:49] Jirobo**
Oh, not at all.
**[10:51] Jirobo**
After all, you're guiding me
to the Jizo's hiding place.
**[10:55] Jirobo**
I'm grateful.
**[10:59] Sagen**
In that case, look forward to it.
**[11:01] Sagen**
I'll guide you straight to hell,
**[11:03] Sagen**
and tear your loud mouth to shreds.
**[11:11] Jirobo**
By the way, believers are making
pilgrimages around here.
**[11:16] Jirobo**
This road we're on is one of
Saigoku's Thirty-three Holy Grounds.
***SIGN*** The
Thirty-three
Places
Pilgrimage
**[11:20] Jirobo**
This is the road to the Kishu
domain's Kokawadera Temple.
**[11:23] Jirobo**
Maybe we can do the "Thirty-three
Places Pilgrimage, too.
**[11:23] Jirobo**
The
Thirty-three
Places
Pilgrimage
**[11:26] Jirobo**
What do you say?
**[11:29] Jirobo**
The great sanctums
of Kishudera Temple must've been
**[11:33] Jirobo**
burned to the ground in the
Chief Advisor's attack on Kishu.
**[11:35] Jirobo**
Poor Jizo-sama,
to be at a cemetery like that.
**[11:39] Jirobo**
What do you think, Sagen-dono?
**[11:42] Sagen**
What makes you think
I'm going to that cemetery?
**[11:45] Jirobo**
Oh? Is that so?
**[11:47] Jirobo**
In that case, further ahead...
**[11:50] Jirobo**
is Mount Koya.
**[11:58] Jirobo**
If we're headed to Mount Koya,
we're in trouble.
**[12:01] Jirobo**
That place is associated with Kobo Daishi.
**[12:04] Jirobo**
They say there are 20,000
to 30,000 graves there.
**[12:07] Jirobo**
You can search and search,
and never see the end of it.
**[12:12] Sagen**
You sure talk a lot, Jirobo.
**[12:17] Jirobo**
So, is it Mount Koya?
**[12:19] Sagen**
What is?
**[12:20] Jirobo**
You know, the grave with Jizo
Bodhisattva buried in it.
**[12:31] Nar**
There was a reason why Jirobo
did a lot of talking.
**[12:35] Nar**
He was carefully watching for clues,
**[12:40] Nar**
by observing Sagen's
reactions and facial expressions.
**[12:45] Jirobo**
So Mount Koya it is.
**[12:48] Sagen**
Why do you say that?
**[12:50] Jirobo**
Your eyes twitched.
**[12:52] Jirobo**
Upward, to the right.
**[12:57] Sagen**
You bastard...
**[12:59] Sagen**
So you think you've got
a read on me, do you?
**[13:07] Jirobo**
Thanks for your help, Sagen-dono!
**[13:14] Jirobo**
This can't be...
**[13:17] Jirobo**
They're Iga ninjas!
**[13:34] Sagen**
It's your turn to go first.
**[13:37] Sagen**
You be the guide.
**[13:40] Sagen**
Because if you don't,
these three hundred Iga ninjas
**[13:44] Sagen**
will dig up each and every grave,
**[13:46] Sagen**
tens of thousands of them, if need be.
**[14:34] Kanetsugu**
Sakon-dono?
**[14:36] Mosuke**
And those three men from yesterday.
**[14:39] Sakon**
These men...
**[14:42] Sakon**
have requested me to relieve them.
**[14:44] Kanetsugu**
Relieve them?
**[14:46] Sakon**
They say they are going
to perform harakiri here.
**[14:51] Sakon**
They are men of the Tsutsui clan,
**[14:53] Sakon**
of the guardian Daimyo of Yamato.
**[14:56] Kanetsugu**
Of the Tsutsui clan...
**[14:58] Nar**
Shima Sakon was once a vassal of that clan.
**[15:03] Nar**
After the death of his lord,
**[15:06] Nar**
he had differences with
his successor, Tsutsui Sadatsugu,
**[15:08] Nar**
and thus resigned his post.
**[15:10] Nar**
This was a part of his personal history.
**[15:13] Sakon**
When I left the Tsutsui clan,
**[15:17] Sakon**
they sent assassins after me,
and I killed them all.
**[15:21] Sakon**
These three are the sons of those men.
**[15:25] Mosuke**
So they were on a vendetta?
**[15:28] Sakon**
That is correct.
**[15:29] Sakon**
These men are forbidden to return home...
**[15:31] Sakon**
if they do not kill me first.
**[15:35] Mosuke**
The so-called warrior's code of honor.
**[15:38] Sakon**
They are the sons of men
who were my friends at one time.
**[15:44] Sakon**
If I didn't have duties still remaining,
**[15:48] Sakon**
I would gladly let them take vengeance on me.
**[15:51] Sakon**
However, I still have things left to do.
**[15:55] Kanetsugu**
So that kind of thing...
**[15:56] Kanetsugu**
must have been going on for years.
**[15:59] Sakon**
But all they have to do is wait.
**[16:03] Sakon**
Then they can kill me.
**[16:06] Sakon**
It's the least I can do for my friends.
**[16:09] Kanetsugu**
Sakon-dono.
**[16:11] Kazuma**
But we have been after you for three years...
**[16:14] Kazuma**
We have tried challenging you
more than ten times already, Shima-dono.
**[16:18] Shinnojo**
And yet, you have repelled us
every time, and thoroughly.
**[16:21] Senbei**
We should be dead many times over by now.
**[16:25] Kazuma et al.**
Thus, you must kill us, Shima-dono.
**[16:28] Kazuma et al.**
We deserve it.
**[16:34] Mosuke**
Those guys...
Their logic is crazy.
**[16:37] Kanetsugu**
However... They mean what they say.
**[16:41] Kanetsugu**
There is no trace
of lie or deceit in their eyes.
**[16:45] Kanetsugu**
And that's the problem.
**[16:49] Sakon**
Oh...
**[16:51] Sakon**
I see you are on your way somewhere.
**[16:53] Sakon**
Pardon me for diverting you.
**[16:56] Sakon**
But let me ask you this.
**[16:57] Sakon**
Where are you, a person
of authority of the Uesugi clan,
**[17:00] Sakon**
going on horseback in the rain?
**[17:03] Kanetsugu**
For the reason you are aware, Hattori Hanzo
**[17:07] Kanetsugu**
has mobilized a large number of ninjas in Iga.
**[17:11] Kanetsugu**
Approximately three hundred of them.
**[17:16] Kanetsugu**
My friend, Jirobo,
will confront them all alone.
**[17:23] Sakon**
You are going to his aid?
**[17:25] Kanetsugu**
It would go against righteousness
to leave a friend in a lurch.
**[17:28] Sakon**
But that's two against three hundred.
**[17:31] Sakon**
It's recklessness.
**[17:33] Kanetsugu**
"If you fight to die, you will live."
**[17:36] Kanetsugu**
"If you fight to live, you will assuredly die."
**[17:39] Kanetsugu**
Those are the words of Lord Kenshin.
**[17:43] Nar**
Sakon knew from his smile,
**[17:47] Nar**
that this man was ready to die.
**[17:51] Nar**
Ieyasu's plot to seek the Jizo Bodhisattva
**[17:53] Nar**
would be rendered meaningless
**[17:55] Nar**
if Kanetsugu were dead.
**[17:59] Nar**
The loss of his one life
would save all of Echigo.
**[18:03] Nar**
There was more than ample reason
**[18:05] Nar**
for Kanetsugu to expedite his death.
**[18:10] Sakon**
Well, well...
**[18:12] Sakon**
Ieyasu would never guess
you would get involved.
**[18:15] Kanetsugu**
That's what makes it interesting.
**[18:20] Mosuke**
W-Wait just a second.
**[18:22] Mosuke**
I'm here, too, you know.
**[18:23] Mosuke**
I promised Milord here,
that I'll be his spearbearer to the death.
**[18:27] Mosuke**
So it's three against three hundred.
**[18:34] Sakon**
In that case, I cannot afford
to miss your death flower.
**[18:39] Sakon**
I shall respectfully witness
the scattering of its petals.
**[18:43] Sakon**
Thus... Let me go with you.
**[18:48] Kanetsugu**
Do as you please.
**[18:50] Sakon**
I have decided.
**[18:53] Sakon**
But first this...
**[18:55] Sakon**
As you all have heard, I must hurry off.
**[19:01] Sakon**
I don't have time to do you one at a time.
**[19:14] Sakon**
All three of you,
stick out your necks.
**[19:18] Sakon**
Stick them out!
**[19:55] Kazuma**
Wh-What...
**[19:59] Sakon**
All of you have died many times over.
**[20:02] Sakon**
You have no more
obligations left in this world.
**[20:06] Sakon**
The Tsutsui clan, your vendetta...
Cast them all away.
**[20:10] Sakon**
Come and be my aid in battle instead.
**[20:14] Kazuma**
You mean the battle you were talking about,
against three hundred Iga ninjas?
**[20:19] Shinnojo**
In comparison to their number...
**[20:21] Senbei**
we don't stand a chance...
**[20:24] Sakon**
That makes six men.
**[20:27] Sakon**
And our commander is...
**[20:31] Kanetsugu**
I am Naoe Yamashiro no Kami Kanetsugu.
**[20:35] Kazuma**
Wh-What?
**[20:37] Kazuma**
The premier of Uesugi!
**[20:42] Sakon**
It is Naoe-dono and myself.
Are you dissatisfied?
**[20:45] Kazuma**
Oh, n-no...
**[20:48] Nar**
The young men's hearts trembled.
**[20:52] Nar**
It would be a reckless battle.
**[20:54] Nar**
They would assuredly lose.
**[20:58] Nar**
However, they could die together
with two civil war heroes.
**[21:03] Nar**
They could think of no better
place of death for a warrior.
**[21:10] Sakon**
Let warriors never err
in their place of death.
**[21:13] Sakon**
Our place of death is the battlefield.
**[21:18] Kazuma et al**
Shima-dono.
**[21:42] Kanetsugu**
Shima-dono...
**[21:45] Kanetsugu**
You are truly...
**[21:49] Sakon**
Naoe-dono, this too is destiny.
**[21:53] Sakon**
We are coming to aid you in battle.
***SIGN*** Episode 24: To Mount Koya We Go!
**[23:40] Nar**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:44] Nar**
Episode 24
"To Mount Koya We Go!"
**[23:50] Nar**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 24 - To Mount Koya We Go!
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**[00:01] Sakon**
* All three of you,*
* stick out your necks.*
**[00:05] Sakon**
*Stick them out!*
**[00:20] Keiji**
So he chopped off their heads?
**[00:23] Kanetsugu**
Not quite...
**[00:31] Sakon**
*All of you have died many times over.*
**[00:34] Sakon**
* You have no more*
* obligations left in this world.*
**[00:39] Sakon**
* The Tsutsui clan, your vendetta...*
* Cast them all away.*
**[00:41] Sakon**
*Come and be my aid in battle instead.*
**[00:49] Sakon**
* Let warriors never err*
* in their place of death.*
**[00:53] Sakon**
*Our place of death is the battlefield.*
**[00:56] Keiji**
I see.
**[00:58] Keiji**
Then you all went after
the three hundred Iga ninjas?
**[01:02] Kanetsugu**
That was...
**[01:06] Kanetsugu**
the beginning of the battle, for the six of us.
***SIGN*** To Mount Koya We Go!
**[03:02] Kanetsugu**
By the way...
**[03:04] Kanetsugu**
Sakon-dono. Why come to our aid?
**[03:08] Sakon**
As you know, Uesugi
keeps Tokugawa in check.
**[03:13] Sakon**
Hence, I can't afford for you to die.
**[03:15] Kanetsugu**
However, the nation is already
**[03:18] Kanetsugu**
under the Chief Advisor's rule.
**[03:20] Sakon**
And his lordship is the problem.
**[03:25] Sakon**
His lordship has a kidney ailment.
**[03:28] Kanetsugu**
A kidney ailment?
**[03:31] Sakon**
It's getting worse by the day.
**[03:35] Sakon**
He probably does not
have long to live.
**[03:39] Kanetsugu**
Hm...
**[03:46] Kanetsugu**
Sakon-dono.
**[03:49] Kanetsugu**
This is what you said when you
**[03:52] Kanetsugu**
hacked the topknots off those men:
**[03:54] Sakon**
*If I didn't have duties still remaining,*
**[03:56] Sakon**
* I would gladly let them*
* take vengeance on me.*
**[03:58] Sakon**
*However, I still have things left to do.*
**[04:02] Kanetsugu**
What are those duties?
**[04:05] Sakon**
They pertain to a dream of mine,
**[04:07] Sakon**
which never came true in the Tsutsui clan.
**[04:10] Kanetsugu**
A dream?
**[04:11] Sakon**
I presume you, too,
have the same dream,
**[04:15] Sakon**
which you keep hidden deep in your heart.
**[04:17] Kanetsugu**
Me?
**[04:20] Kanetsugu**
Depending on the outcome
of the Chief Advisor's ailment...
**[04:28] Sakon**
Here's to you, the strategist.
The fate of the nation
**[04:31] Sakon**
is in your hands, with a single battle.
**[04:43] Sakon**
Laugh at this old man
for waxing sentimental.
**[04:52] Kanetsugu**
How could I...
**[04:55] Kanetsugu**
This is the best sake I've had in a while.
**[05:10] Keiji**
I see...
**[05:12] Keiji**
the strategist in whose hands
lies the fate of the nation...
**[05:15] Keiji**
you two shared a common dream.
**[05:18] Kanetsugu**
Yes...
**[05:20] Kanetsugu**
and the dream eventually did come true.
**[05:24] Kanetsugu**
However...
**[05:26] Kanetsugu**
being caught up in that dream,
**[05:30] Kanetsugu**
I thoughtlessly didn't sense
**[05:34] Kanetsugu**
the imminent sadness approaching.
**[05:53] Kanetsugu**
What's going on?
**[05:59] Senbei**
Wh-Wh-What the...
**[06:01] Hanada**
A monster!
**[06:16] Sakon**
Th-This is...
**[06:18] Mosuke**
M-Milord, it's White Cloud...
**[06:21] Kanetsugu**
What happened?
**[06:24] Kanetsugu**
Jirobo.
**[06:30] Mosuke**
Jirobo.
**[06:43] Kanetsugu**
Jirobo.
**[06:45] Mosuke**
Are you all right, Jirobo?
**[06:47] Jirobo**
N-Never mind me...
**[06:50] Jirobo**
White Cloud needs care...
**[07:00] Kanetsugu**
Oh, no...
**[07:03] Kanetsugu**
What happened?
**[07:06] Jirobo**
But...
**[07:10] Kanetsugu**
Don't worry about him. You may speak.
**[07:12] Kanetsugu**
This is Shima Sakon-dono.
**[07:14] Kanetsugu**
He knows everything.
**[07:20] Jirobo**
In that case...
**[07:25] Sagen**
Jirobo.
**[07:29] Sagen**
I'll tell you where we're headed.
**[07:33] Sagen**
As you've guessed,
the Jizo is at Mount Koya.
**[07:39] Sagen**
But before we go, you'll tell
us the name on the headstone.
**[07:44] Jirobo**
You just don't get it, do you?
**[07:47] Jirobo**
You can turn heaven and earth upside down,
**[07:49] Jirobo**
but I still won't tell you the name.
**[07:52] Sagen**
No.
**[07:53] Sagen**
You will tell us, like it or not.
**[07:56] Jirobo**
Not a chance!
**[08:05] Sagen**
Bastard!
**[08:06] Sagen**
You won't get away!
**[08:34] Sagen**
Don't kill him! Capture him alive!
**[08:52] Sagen**
As I expected, there he is.
**[08:54] Sagen**
But I'm ready for you this time.
**[09:00] Jirobo**
What?
**[09:02] Sagen**
Fire!
**[09:08] Jirobo**
White Cloud!
**[09:24] Jirobo**
Those bastards...
**[09:25] Jirobo**
were armed in case
White Cloud showed up.
**[09:33] Jirobo**
But he...
**[09:37] Jirobo**
even after the barrage of bullets...
**[09:42] Jirobo**
He carried me here...
**[09:44] Jirobo**
and kept running,
**[09:46] Jirobo**
all the way from near Mount Koya.
**[09:49] Sakon**
What?
**[09:50] Sakon**
All the way from Mount Koya?
**[09:53] Jirobo**
That's where the Jizo Bodhisattva is...
**[09:59] Kanetsugu**
I see...
**[10:23] Kanetsugu**
White Cloud.
**[10:25] Kanetsugu**
You have done splendidly.
**[10:30] Jirobo**
Hey, White Cloud.
**[10:33] Jirobo**
Isn't that great?
**[10:35] Jirobo**
Milord has praised you.
**[10:44] Jirobo**
Good.
**[10:46] Jirobo**
You are happy?
**[10:49] Jirobo**
I am happy, too, White Cloud.
**[10:55] Kanetsugu**
You...
**[10:59] Mosuke**
You guys probably think he's just a dog...
**[11:08] Mosuke**
but he's family to us.
**[11:14] Mosuke**
I'll never forget when
he was a tiny puppy this big.
**[11:21] Mosuke**
His mother was killed by a bear...
**[11:32] Mosuke**
But he didn't run.
**[11:35] Mosuke**
He stood guard to try protect his mother.
**[12:07] Mosuke**
Milord was struck by the dog's
filial duty to his mother...
**[12:14] Mosuke**
and came to his aid.
**[12:20] Mosuke**
However...
**[12:27] Mosuke & Jirobo**
Milord!
**[12:28] Kanetsugu**
It's all right.
**[12:32] Kanetsugu**
It's a war-torn world.
**[12:35] Kanetsugu**
He's got the right spirit for survival.
**[12:37] Mosuke**
Milord said he's a compassionate
and courageous dog...
**[12:41] Mosuke**
and decided to make him a vassal.
**[12:45] Mosuke**
And then...
**[12:46] Mosuke**
and then...
**[12:48] Mosuke**
White Cloud was always with us...
**[12:50] Mosuke**
in every battle...
**[12:58] Jirobo**
Milord...
**[12:59] Jirobo**
will you let me care for this dog?
**[13:03] Jirobo**
I've been wanting to train a ninja dog.
**[13:08] Kanetsugu**
A ninja dog?
**[13:10] Kanetsugu**
I like it.
**[13:12] Kanetsugu**
All right, Jirobo.
**[13:13] Kanetsugu**
You can care for this dog.
**[13:17] Jirobo**
For starters, he should have a name.
**[13:19] Kanetsugu**
Hm...
**[13:21] Kanetsugu**
Well, then.
**[13:27] Kanetsugu**
Look at this guy.
**[13:29] Kanetsugu**
He looks like that white cloud.
**[13:33] Kanetsugu**
Thus shall you be named...
**[13:36] Kanetsugu**
White Cloud!
**[13:54] Jirobo**
White Cloud...
**[14:20] Kanetsugu**
White Cloud.
**[14:23] Kanetsugu**
This giant tree is your headstone.
**[14:27] Jirobo**
Perfect for you... For your giant body.
**[14:33] Kanetsugu**
This giant tree overlooks the road
tying Echigo and the capital together.
**[14:40] Kanetsugu**
We'll always pass by it
on our way to the capital.
**[14:44] Kanetsugu**
We can see him every time we go there.
**[14:48] Jirobo**
You won't have to be lonesome here...
**[15:09] Kanetsugu**
Jirobo.
**[15:11] Kanetsugu**
It's off to battle now.
**[15:13] Kanetsugu**
We must avenge White Cloud.
**[15:17] Jirobo**
Milord...
**[15:22] Jirobo**
Yes!
**[15:25] Kanetsugu**
Get ready.
**[15:27] Kanetsugu**
To Mount Koya we go!
**[15:48] Ninja**
Look at all of these headstones.
**[15:58] Sagen**
We'll start digging up the graves
when the monks are asleep.
**[16:01] Ninja**
Yes.
**[16:03] Sagen**
Though we couldn't get
Jirobo to divulge the name
**[16:05] Sagen**
on the headstone...
**[16:07] Sagen**
we can still find it,
if we all work together.
**[16:12] Ninja**
Sagen-sama.
**[16:13] Sagen**
Hm?
**[16:15] Sagen**
What is it?
**[16:16] Ninja**
I have word that Jirobo
is headed here, with others.
**[16:22] Sagen**
I would've guessed he'd return with aid.
**[16:26] Sagen**
How many of them?
**[16:27] Sagen**
A hundred?
**[16:28] Sagen**
Two hundred?
**[16:30] Sagen**
Or is it a thousand?
**[16:32] Ninja**
Well, counting Jirobo...
**[16:36] Ninja**
there are seven of them.
**[16:37] Sagen**
Seven?
**[16:38] Sagen**
Are you kidding?
**[16:40] Ninja**
According to report,
the premier of Echigo's Uesugi,
**[16:45] Ninja**
Naoe Kanetsugu, is among them.
**[16:47] Sagen**
Wh-What?
**[16:52] Sagen**
Kanetsugu himself?
**[17:01] Sagen**
Hm...
**[17:03] Ninja**
Trouble, Sagen-sama!
**[17:06] Sagen**
What?
**[17:07] Sagen**
What now?
**[17:10] Sagen**
What is that?
**[17:17] Keiji**
That must've surprised Sagen.
**[17:22] Kanetsugu**
It was my secret strategy
against the three hundred Iga ninjas.
**[17:29] Nar**
Kanetsugu's secret strategy...
**[17:32] Nar**
First, the party split in two
in front of Mount Koya.
**[17:41] Nar**
And the place where Sakon
went was the key...
***SIGN*** Ogo's residence
**[17:47] Mokujiki Ogo**
Well, well...
***SIGN*** Mokujiki Ogo
**[17:51] Nar**
Mokujiki Ogo...
**[17:54] Nar**
an elderly monk who,
during Hideyoshi's attack on Mount Koya
**[17:58] Nar**
in 1587, miraculously saved Mount Koya
**[18:01] Nar**
by peaceful negotiation,
as a representative of the mountain.
**[18:06] Nar**
He subsequently served Toyotomi
**[18:10] Nar**
and held the position of power
over matters on the mountain.
**[18:15] Ogo**
So Shima-dono, you,
the Chief Retainer of Ishida-sama,
**[18:20] Ogo**
have come all the way to Mount Koya. Why?
**[18:24] Sakon**
I will create somewhat
of a commotion on the mountain...
**[18:28] Sakon**
I wanted your permission.
**[18:34] Ogo**
Oh...
**[18:35] Ogo**
What do you intend to do?
**[18:42] Sakon**
Please post this on bulletins.
**[18:49] Ogo**
Well, well...
**[18:53] Sakon**
Will you accept my request?
**[18:54] Ogo**
Of course.
**[18:56] Ogo**
After all, it is the request
of Yamato's Major Counselor.
**[19:11] Ogo**
The Major Counselor has interesting ideas...
**[19:15] Nar**
The Major Counselor of Yamato...
**[19:18] Nar**
He managed all of the political
dealings during Toyotomi's reign.
**[19:21] Nar**
He was by birth and by reputation
Hideyoshi's right-hand man,
**[19:25] Nar**
his actual brother, Toyotomi Hidenaga.
**[19:29] Nar**
Thus, Ogo had no qualms...
**[19:34] Nar**
What was it that transpired
from the bulletins?
**[19:40] Sagen**
Wh-What the...
**[19:54] Ninja**
How many of them are there?
**[19:56] Ninja**
A thousand?
**[19:57] Ninja**
Two thousand?
**[19:59] Sagen**
I know what this is.
**[20:00] Sagen**
Kanetsugu has planned
**[20:01] Sagen**
to mingle with the crowd
and dig up the Jizo grave.
**[20:06] Messenger Ninja**
But there are only three hundred of us.
**[20:09] Messenger Ninja**
It would be impossible
to keep an eye on all of them.
**[20:12] Sagen**
But why are these farmers
gathered together?
**[20:15] Messenger Ninja 2**
Sagen-sama.
**[20:16] Sagen**
Hm?
**[20:17] Messenger Ninja 2**
This.
**[20:20] Kanetsugu**
* Mount Koya is*
* the paradise of Maitreya.*
**[20:23] Kanetsugu**
* The many spirits who have passed*
* in the Battle of Odawara*
**[20:25] Kanetsugu**
*are coming to pay homage to Daishi.*
**[20:28] Kanetsugu**
*Thus to prepare this holy ground,*
**[20:31] Kanetsugu**
* I command you to clean*
* the Okunoin Temple.*
**[20:34] Kanetsugu**
* For each of you who*
* participates in this good deed,*
**[20:37] Kanetsugu**
*there will be a reward of 100 mon.*
**[20:42] Kanetsugu**
* "How blessed it is.*
* Daishi is still among us,*
**[20:46] Kanetsugu**
*even in the crags of Mount Koya."*
**[20:52] Kanetsugu**
Naoe Yamashiro no Kami Kanetsugu.
**[20:57] Sagen**
What in the...
**[20:59] Nar**
Sagen then realized, that though
he had the unquestionable
**[21:03] Nar**
advantage of three hundred
Iga ninjas backing him,
**[21:07] Nar**
he had overvalued the idea of quantity...
**[21:11] Nar**
Indeed, as they say:
**[21:13] Nar**
"Those who rely on quantity,
**[21:16] Nar**
will drown in arrogance and quantity."
**[21:18] Sagen**
So this is Naoe Kanetsugu!
**[21:25] People**
What a blessing.
**[21:26] People**
What a blessing.
**[21:26] People**
100 mon just for cleaning!
**[21:29] People**
What a happy occasion!
**[21:31] Kanetsugu**
It's more than worth it!
**[21:33] Kanetsugu**
Endeavor in cleaning,
**[21:36] Kanetsugu**
for the sake of the many spirits and Daishi!
**[21:46] People**
This is a boon from Daishi.
**[21:48] People**
What a blessing. What a blessing.
**[21:50] People**
100 mon! 100 mon!
**[21:50] Senbei**
Wh-What an incredible sight.
**[21:52] People**
It's a boon!
**[21:53] Kazuma**
So this is Naoe Kanetsugu's style of battle...
**[21:54] People**
What a blessing. What a blessing.
**[21:57] Hanada**
It's...
**[21:58] Hanada**
it's like a festival.
***SIGN*** Episode 25: The Endless Story Told of Men
**[23:40] Nar**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:44] Nar**
Episode 25
"The Endless Story Told of Men."
**[23:50] Nar**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.
# 25 - The Endless Story Told of Men
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***SIGN*** The Endless Story Told of Men
**[01:37] Keiji**
I see.
**[01:39] Keiji**
So the site was packed
with farmers of Mount Koya.
**[01:42] Keiji**
That must've been a shock to Sagen.
**[01:47] Kanetsugu**
Our enemy numbered three hundred.
**[01:49] Kanetsugu**
"Those who rely on quantity
will drown in quantity."
**[02:04] Ninja**
We could just gun them all down.
**[02:06] Sagen**
No. Look at that.
**[02:10] Ninja**
That is...
**[02:13] Sagen**
That's right.
**[02:14] Sagen**
That's Chief Vassal Ishida
Mitsunari's Shima Sakon,
**[02:17] Sagen**
assistant of Chief Advisor Hideyoshi.
**[02:24] Ninja**
How could this be?
**[02:26] Ninja**
What's a man like him
doing in the commotion?
**[02:29] Sagen**
Listen carefully.
**[02:30] Sagen**
Mount Koya is holy ground
protected by Hideyoshi.
**[02:34] Sagen**
If we act rashly,
we might fuel the fire
**[02:36] Sagen**
of the war between
Toyotomi and Tokugawa...
**[02:41] Sagen**
We have only one recourse.
**[02:47] Keiji**
Sagen's panic was understandable.
**[02:50] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[02:53] Kanetsugu**
The black, star-shaped marks on my eyes
**[02:58] Kanetsugu**
were copied into gem eyes,
**[03:01] Kanetsugu**
and a letter written proving
my connection to Lord Kenshin, reading:
***SIGN*** Our child is coming.
Masatora
**[03:05] Kanetsugu**
"Our child is coming.
Masatora."
**[03:08] Kanetsugu**
They were hidden within a Jizo Bodhisattva.
**[03:15] Keiji**
If that were revealed to the nation,
**[03:18] Keiji**
a fight would have ensued
regarding Uesgui's successorship.
**[03:21] Keiji**
Factions would have been formed
in favor of Kagekatsu-dono
**[03:24] Keiji**
or Kanetsugu-dono. The nation
would have been split in half.
**[03:27] Kanetsugu**
That's why the fate of Uesugi
was riding on Mount Koya.
***SIGN*** Odawara Memorial Stone
***SIGN*** Odawara Memorial Stone
**[03:38] Sakon**
Bishop Ogo.
**[03:41] Sakon**
Please perform a service to pacify the spirits.
**[03:45] Ogo**
Well, well.
**[03:49] Ogo**
I shall be more than happy to oblige.
**[03:53] Ogo**
In the name of Vairocana...
**[03:59] People**
In the name of Vairocana...
**[04:06] Ogo**
eternal...
**[04:10] People**
eternal...
**[04:16] Ogo**
purity...
**[04:20] Kazuma**
Hey! Where's Hanada?
**[04:24] Shinnojo**
You're right. Where is he?
**[04:39] Hanada**
Shima-dono.
**[04:40] Sakon**
Hanada.
**[04:44] Hanada**
I was caught off guard...
by the Iga ninjas.
**[04:47] All**
Hanada!
**[04:51] Senbei**
Th-This is...
**[04:53] Shinnojo**
What is this...
**[04:55] Hanada**
N-Naoe-dono.
**[04:59] Hanada**
They gave a message...
**[05:02] Hanada**
they said they've given up
on the Jizo Bodhisattva...
**[05:05] Hanada**
but they will kill everyone instead.
**[05:13] Sagen**
As of this moment, I am
dissociating myself from Tokugawa.
**[05:16] Sagen**
As a former vassal of Takeda,
**[05:18] Sagen**
I will now fight against Uesugi.
**[05:22] Sagen**
Toyotomi should have no complaints.
**[05:26] Sagen**
I'm taking you on, Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[05:36] Sakon**
Hanada.
**[05:37] Senbei & Shinnojo**
Hey!
**[05:40] Hanada**
Th-This festival...
**[05:42] Hanada**
I wanted to see it through...
**[05:47] Hanada**
to the very end.
**[05:59] Sakon**
Hanada.
**[06:07] Shinnojo**
Hanada.
**[06:08] Jirobo**
Milord.
**[06:09] Jirobo**
Our enemy is desperate.
**[06:14] Jirobo**
I know where the grave is.
**[06:16] Jirobo**
Bishop Ogo confirmed it for me.
**[06:20] Kanetsugu**
All we have to do now is dig
up the Bodhisattva statue,
**[06:24] Kanetsugu**
and quickly toss it into the ritual fire.
**[06:26] Kanetsugu**
Then this case will be closed.
**[06:29] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[06:31] Jirobo**
Due to Ban Tarozaemon,
**[06:35] Jirobo**
the situation became unduly complicated.
**[06:37] Jirobo**
He's probably watching it
all unfold, from somewhere.
**[06:47] Kanetsugu**
And I, too, can see.
**[06:49] Kanetsugu**
I see a vision of Lord Nobunaga.
**[06:54] Kanetsugu**
And this is what he says:
**[06:56] Kanetsugu**
"Overcome this battle
with splendid fortitude."
**[07:06] Kanetsugu**
In that case...
**[07:18] Kanetsugu**
We have one thing left to do...
**[07:20] Kanetsugu**
to head to the Jizo's grave!
**[07:31] Ogo**
Shima-dono.
**[07:33] Ogo**
Have no worry.
**[07:35] Ogo**
No matter what happens
on our mountain now...
**[07:38] Ogo**
We will pretend to not see.
**[07:41] Sakon**
Yes...
**[07:42] Sakon**
It seems this battle has escalated...
**[07:46] Sakon**
It is now beyond our control.
**[07:48] Ogo**
Well, well.
**[07:56] Sakon**
I must go.
**[07:58] Jirobo**
Please wait.
**[08:11] Sakon**
They were disguised as farmers?
**[08:15] Jirobo**
Yes.
**[08:16] Jirobo**
We did amass several thousand farmers,
**[08:19] Jirobo**
but the three hundred Iga ninjas
used it as an opportunity
**[08:23] Jirobo**
to hide among them.
**[08:31] Shinnojo & Senbei**
Na...
**[08:33] Shinnojo & Senbei**
Naoe-dono...
**[08:43] Shinnojo**
Naoe-dono, is something wrong?
**[08:47] Kanetsugu**
Well, what the hell.
**[08:51] Kanetsugu**
Let's dance a little.
**[09:01] Shinnojo**
D-Dance?
**[09:03] Senbei**
But they're mingled with the farmers.
**[09:07] Kanetsugu**
So what.
**[09:09] Kanetsugu**
It'll be more fun in front of assassins.
**[09:13] Shinnojo; Senbei**
Wh... Wh-What?
**[09:18] Kanetsugu**
Mosuke.
**[09:19] Kanetsugu**
Blow the conch shell.
**[09:21] Mosuke**
Yes.
**[10:25] Sakon**
Such magnificent gallantry.
**[10:30] Mosuke**
But I can sense it.
**[10:33] Jirobo**
Yeah.
**[10:36] Jirobo**
The painfully menacing
presence of the assassins.
**[10:47] Sagen**
That Naoe Kanetsugu...
**[10:50] Sagen**
is certainly an unusual fellow.
**[10:53] Sagen**
But know this.
**[10:56] Sagen**
That dance of yours will be your last.
**[11:08] Kanetsugu**
"This is my wish..."
**[11:12] Kanetsugu**
"To die beneath the flowers..."
**[11:15] Kanetsugu**
"in spring..."
**[11:21] Mosuke**
What is that?
**[11:24] Jirobo**
That's a poem by Saigyo.
**[11:29] Kanetsugu**
"in the second month..."
**[12:05] Kanetsugu**
"During the full moon."
**[12:09] Farmers**
During the full moon.
**[12:13] Impostor farmers**
Wh-What the?
**[12:14] Impostor farmers**
What?
**[12:15] Impostor farmers**
What's going on?
**[12:16] ---**
What was that?
**[12:27] Impostor farmer**
Wh-What?
**[12:29] Impostor farmer**
Full moon?
**[12:42] Shinnojo**
Wh-What happened?
**[12:44] Jirobo**
"During the full moon" was the signal.
**[12:47] Sakon**
It's a common strategy on the battlefield...
**[12:49] Sakon**
for ferreting out enemies
mingling with allies.
**[12:53] Shinnojo**
B-But they're just farmers.
**[12:56] Shinnojo**
How can they fight so well?
**[12:58] Sakon**
No.
**[12:58] Sakon**
They're not farmers.
**[13:04] Sakon**
They are soldiers of the
Chief Advisor's brother,
**[13:06] Sakon**
Toyotomi Hidenaga,
Yamato's Major Counselor.
**[13:12] Sakon**
They're his infantrymen,
well seasoned in battle.
**[13:18] Sagen**
I-Incredible!
**[13:20] Sagen**
We've been outmaneuvered!
**[13:23] Sakon**
The designer of this brilliant plan...
**[13:29] Sakon**
is none other than the leading
chief vassal of Echigo's Uesugi...
**[13:32] Sakon**
Naoe Yamashiro no Kami Kanetsugu
**[13:42] Senbei**
We will join you!
**[13:44] Senbei**
This is our place of death!
**[13:49] Kanetsugu**
Mosuke!
**[13:50] Kanetsugu**
Dig up the Jizo now!
**[13:53] Mosuke**
Got it!
**[13:55] Sagen**
What?
**[14:04] Jirobo**
You can turn heaven and earth upside down,
**[14:06] Jirobo**
but I still won't tell you the name.
**[14:11] Sagen**
I get it. It's an unmarked grave!
**[14:15] Mosuke**
Dig right there.
**[14:18] Iga Ninja**
Bastard!
**[14:19] Iga Ninja**
Your dare mess with us...
**[14:27] Jirobo**
Nice try.
**[14:38] Sakon**
H-How could this happen?
**[14:42] Mosuke**
I found it!
**[14:44] Mosuke**
I found it!
**[14:46] Mosuke**
It's the real thing.
**[14:49] Mosuke**
The black, star-shaped marks
**[14:51] Mosuke**
are the same as Milord's!
**[14:56] Kanetsugu**
All right, hurry!
**[14:58] Kanetsugu**
Throw the Jizo in the fire!
**[14:59] Mosuke**
Yes!
**[15:09] Kanetsugu**
Mosuke!
**[15:18] Jirobo**
He finally showed up...
**[15:20] Jirobo**
Shimosaka Sagen.
**[15:24] Sagen**
You did a fine job.
**[15:27] Sagen**
It appears there's not one Iga ninja
**[15:30] Sagen**
remaining, out of three hundred.
**[15:34] Sagen**
But that's not important.
**[15:38] Sagen**
I have but one aim...
**[15:41] Sagen**
to get that Jizo Bodhisattva...
**[15:45] Sagen**
and you, Naoe Kanetsugu.
**[15:51] Jirobo**
Milord, let me finish him off.
**[15:53] Kanetsugu**
No.
**[15:54] Kanetsugu**
I must avenge White Cloud.
**[15:57] Kanetsugu**
I will take you on.
**[16:01] Sagen**
I'll take you to hell with me.
**[16:08] Sagen**
I may have only one arm...
**[16:10] Sagen**
but I'll match my death with yours...
**[16:12] Sagen**
My sword shall not fail!
**[16:22] Sagen**
*He doesn't know I have a left arm,*
**[16:24] Sagen**
*and that will be his undoing.*
**[16:26] Sagen**
*Go ahead! Slash at me with your sword!*
**[16:31] Sagen**
*At which time...*
**[16:59] Sagen**
So you're giving me a chance!
**[17:06] Sagen**
What?
**[17:15] Jirobo**
S-Sagen has a left arm!
**[17:33] Sagen**
Why?
**[17:35] Sagen**
Why did you draw the iron fan
**[17:37] Sagen**
and not the sword?
**[17:38] Sagen**
You were supposed to draw the sword!
**[17:41] Kanetsugu**
I could hear her.
**[17:44] Kanetsugu**
She was screaming at me:
**[17:46] Kanetsugu**
"Don't draw your sword!
Draw the iron fan!"
**[17:48] Kanetsugu**
I heard her voice.
**[17:52] Jirobo**
Wh-Whose?
**[17:55] Mosuke**
It's Taehime-sama.
**[17:58] Mosuke**
It must be Taehime-sama.
**[18:04] Sagen**
Taehime, did you say?
**[18:07] Kanetsugu**
It seems my fate won't
have me die just yet.
**[18:16] Sagen**
Who knew you had that kind of aid...
**[18:19] Sagen**
I am no match for you, after all...
**[18:25] Kanetsugu**
Sagen!
**[18:34] Sagen**
I was so close to defeating
the Uesugi nation.
**[18:39] Sagen**
Jirobo...
**[18:42] Sagen**
Finish me!
**[18:43] Jirobo**
Sagen.
**[18:51] Sagen**
You and I are old ninjas...
**[18:54] Sagen**
I ask you this favor of mercy.
**[19:07] Kanetsugu**
Sagen.
**[19:09] Kanetsugu**
You...
**[19:11] Sagen**
What a good way to die...
**[19:15] Sagen**
This is, indeed...
**[19:19] Sagen**
a ninja's cherished ambition!
**[19:29] Keiji**
I see...
**[19:31] Keiji**
so Sagen was ready to die.
**[19:36] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[19:37] Kanetsugu**
And...
**[19:40] Kanetsugu**
so was the Jizo Bodhisattva.
**[19:45] Sakon**
And now...
**[19:47] Sakon**
this battle has come to an end.
**[19:49] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[19:51] Kanetsugu**
However...
**[19:54] Kanetsugu**
You can never let your guard down
**[19:56] Kanetsugu**
with Tokugawa Ieyasu.
**[20:02] Sakon**
By the way...
**[20:04] Sakon**
was Lord Kenshin's letter
in the Bodhisattva statue?
**[20:08] Kanetsugu**
Yes. It certainly was.
**[20:13] Sakon**
Th-This is...
**[20:15] Sakon**
only a drawing of the eye!
**[20:18] Jirobo**
What?
**[20:19] Mosuke**
Aww... All that for nothing.
**[20:24] Kanetsugu**
It's fine this way.
**[20:27] Kanetsugu**
There never was anything to connect
**[20:29] Kanetsugu**
me to Lord Kenshin.
***SIGN*** Our child is coming. Masatora
**[20:56] Kanetsugu**
Th-This is...
**[21:01] Mosuke**
Heat-sensitive watermark!
**[21:04] Sakon**
Why did Lord Kenshin do this?
**[21:07] Jirobo**
It must have been a protective
measure for his son...
**[21:12] Jirobo**
no matter what befell
the Jizo Bodhisattva.
**[21:18] Kanetsugu**
Ah...
**[21:23] Nar**
Kanetsugu called forth,
**[21:25] Nar**
"Father" and "Mother" in his heart,
**[21:30] Nar**
but without vocalizing.
**[21:36] Nar**
He must never call
Lord Kenshin his father,
**[21:41] Nar**
and Taehime his mother...
**[21:42] Nar**
not in this world.
**[21:46] Nar**
Such was his firm determination.
**[21:51] Nar**
This was, indeed, the child of destiny...
**[21:56] Nar**
Naoe Kanetsugu's righteousness.