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.