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.