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About Nobu's sons, that's a subject that interests me too, 'cause I wanna draw a mini-sequel to my webcomic Sakurablablah and the protagonist is going to be Nobutada-- My story is set something like a week before Honnouji, so a peaceful bit of time after Nagashino's victory before the tragedy, and for this reason I got to investigate about the boys and what they were doing at the moment! Unfortunately I still lack lots of infos T_T but somehow I got a clear picture in my mind. Nobukatsu is usually portrayed as incompetent and Nobutada as the perfect son, but my impression is that both boys showed the same personality: they looked both aggressive, strong-willed and very ambitious. I can see how they wanted to prove themselves in front of their father. Nobukatsu's attack to the Iga region was not such a bad idea, because forests and ninja villages were the first spot were rebels and the like liked to hide: think of those Ikko Ikki guys or the monks-- In the end they were the strongest threat to Nobunaga's idea of unification, because he could defeat one or two daimyo, but if he didn't pacificate the land and give stability and peace to the villangers all his work was pointless-- I noticed that people likes to focus on the "epic" bits of his life, like the battles and the like, but it's important to focus on his economical and social revolutions too. He was pretty daring as an administrator. No wonder that more conservative guys like Hideyoshi and Ieyasu easily erased all his renovations to keep power for longer periods-- Anyway, I don't think that Nobukatsu's idea to attack Iga was a bad idea, if anythig he just had bad timing and an insufficient strategy. Nobu was easy to get pissed but he was also fast to forgive, that's why I think that he didn't punish Nobukatsu (well, Nobukatsu was the head of the Kitabake family anyway), because he could tell that he focused on an important issue.
Eeeeh! The Meiji era was nice! I wouldn't say that Western culture overwhelmed Japanese's one in that period, on the contrary! Japaneses are curious people and are intrigued by different things by default, but they don't really try to understand the whole point behind them (Nobunaga is a perfect example of it)-- So you don't really have the impression that they can get "brainwashed" by Westerners so easily... They still had their culture and developed it accordingly to modernity at that time, we didn't see the kind of "cultural rape" that happened after WWII. Do you know a manga called "Haikara-san ga tooru" (in Italy it was distributed as "Mademoiselle Anne", LOL)..? It's a reaaally old series that was one of my favourites when I was a kid ;_; <3 !! It's set in Meiji era, and despite being a shojo story, it's really keen and interesting about the deal with that peculiar age!
--And I don't know about the penis-patterned kimono XDDD What's that XDDD ?
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Date: 2014-03-27 08:47 pm (UTC)About Nobu's sons, that's a subject that interests me too, 'cause I wanna draw a mini-sequel to my webcomic Sakurablablah and the protagonist is going to be Nobutada-- My story is set something like a week before Honnouji, so a peaceful bit of time after Nagashino's victory before the tragedy, and for this reason I got to investigate about the boys and what they were doing at the moment! Unfortunately I still lack lots of infos T_T but somehow I got a clear picture in my mind.
Nobukatsu is usually portrayed as incompetent and Nobutada as the perfect son, but my impression is that both boys showed the same personality: they looked both aggressive, strong-willed and very ambitious.
I can see how they wanted to prove themselves in front of their father.
Nobukatsu's attack to the Iga region was not such a bad idea, because forests and ninja villages were the first spot were rebels and the like liked to hide: think of those Ikko Ikki guys or the monks-- In the end they were the strongest threat to Nobunaga's idea of unification, because he could defeat one or two daimyo, but if he didn't pacificate the land and give stability and peace to the villangers all his work was pointless-- I noticed that people likes to focus on the "epic" bits of his life, like the battles and the like, but it's important to focus on his economical and social revolutions too. He was pretty daring as an administrator. No wonder that more conservative guys like Hideyoshi and Ieyasu easily erased all his renovations to keep power for longer periods-- Anyway, I don't think that Nobukatsu's idea to attack Iga was a bad idea, if anythig he just had bad timing and an insufficient strategy. Nobu was easy to get pissed but he was also fast to forgive, that's why I think that he didn't punish Nobukatsu (well, Nobukatsu was the head of the Kitabake family anyway), because he could tell that he focused on an important issue.
Eeeeh! The Meiji era was nice!
I wouldn't say that Western culture overwhelmed Japanese's one in that period, on the contrary! Japaneses are curious people and are intrigued by different things by default, but they don't really try to understand the whole point behind them (Nobunaga is a perfect example of it)-- So you don't really have the impression that they can get "brainwashed" by Westerners so easily... They still had their culture and developed it accordingly to modernity at that time, we didn't see the kind of "cultural rape" that happened after WWII.
Do you know a manga called "Haikara-san ga tooru" (in Italy it was distributed as "Mademoiselle Anne", LOL)..? It's a reaaally old series that was one of my favourites when I was a kid ;_; <3 !! It's set in Meiji era, and despite being a shojo story, it's really keen and interesting about the deal with that peculiar age!
--And I don't know about the penis-patterned kimono XDDD What's that XDDD ?