# Gifu Dodo!! Kanetsugu and Keiji
Hiding within his heart the secret of his lord's illegitimate child while risking his life to protect him, Uesugi Kenshin's chief retainer, Naoe Kanetsugu, teamed up with the legendary warrior known as history's most infamous wild man, Maeda Keiji. Never once yielding to any number of powerful men, Kanetsugu and Keiji continue to blaze through the turbulent latter days of the Warring States era, faithfully fighting for justice and their own way of life...
# 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
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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
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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
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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.