I'm preparing an article about it! It's taking me a bit 'cause I can't find a moment to work on it, then I had the brilliant idea of adding maps and-- MEH. Anyway the most of my sources are the Japonius Tyrannus, the Japanese Wikipedia and some websites about castles that I'm using to track the movements of our guys. The problem is that I'm accumulating lots of materials and I'm going to use just a tiny part for the comic-- MEH again XD
It wasn't just ninjas, forests were used as a hidding spots for general rebels too, like farmers or random delinquents. --But sure "attacking a forest" isn't really such an easy task to figure out XD
I only said that he was "weak-willed" in samurai context. I don't think that he was weak-willed-- In a sense he was kinda far-sighted. He probably saw no point in attacking Hideyoshi, considering how the most influential Oda vassals sided with him, and how desperate the situation looked for Katsuie and Nobutaka since the beginning. Consider that when Hideyoshi attacked Mitsuhide at the battle of Yamazaki, Ieyasu, Katsuie and Nobunaga's sons followed his orders. In the general chaos Hideyoshi was the only one who mantained a cool mind and could prove himself as the only person who could give continuity to Nobunaga's dream. Nobukatsu was probably aware of the situation, but he couldn't help his bad temper: he got in troubles with both Hideyoshi and Ieyasu for his demands, but in the end he managed to get pardoned both times and met a peaceful end.
I never said Meiji era was bad! I just said that if Nobu had been the one in control during Westernization, the situation would just be different. Well, it'd be different because there'd be a different social situation in the first place. The Meiji era came after 200 years of Tokugawa dictature. At Nobunaga's times, population wasn't so "educated" yet, they were still rowdy warriors who could be easily influenced by Western culture but wouldn't go down without a fight-- In a sense they were more open-minded though. Nobunaga wouldn't have stopped trading with Europe. Assuming that Portugueses and Dutches made a commercial "post" of Japan, I don't think that they would have let Englishmen (I think that Americans were out of question in the first place at the time) do the same... The scenarios would have been so different and complicated that I don't know how relevant Nobunaga's will would have been... But Japaneses would have been a completely different matter compared to those of the after-Tokugawa.
No, because I don't usually go out of my way to look for historical manga. Neither I do, but when I was a kid I wasn't interested in the issue and I just watched what was on TV XD Anime sure made an impression on me :D
It said that according to some document with unclear source, he was wearing this when he went to meet Dousan for the first time, along with the tiger skin pants and everything To be honest, it sounds like some hoax XD Expecially because I don't think that the Nagoya dealers would have been interested in trading such fabric XD
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Date: 2014-03-28 10:33 am (UTC)Anyway the most of my sources are the Japonius Tyrannus, the Japanese Wikipedia and some websites about castles that I'm using to track the movements of our guys.
The problem is that I'm accumulating lots of materials and I'm going to use just a tiny part for the comic-- MEH again XD
It wasn't just ninjas, forests were used as a hidding spots for general rebels too, like farmers or random delinquents.
--But sure "attacking a forest" isn't really such an easy task to figure out XD
I only said that he was "weak-willed" in samurai context.
I don't think that he was weak-willed-- In a sense he was kinda far-sighted.
He probably saw no point in attacking Hideyoshi, considering how the most influential Oda vassals sided with him, and how desperate the situation looked for Katsuie and Nobutaka since the beginning.
Consider that when Hideyoshi attacked Mitsuhide at the battle of Yamazaki, Ieyasu, Katsuie and Nobunaga's sons followed his orders.
In the general chaos Hideyoshi was the only one who mantained a cool mind and could prove himself as the only person who could give continuity to Nobunaga's dream.
Nobukatsu was probably aware of the situation, but he couldn't help his bad temper: he got in troubles with both Hideyoshi and Ieyasu for his demands, but in the end he managed to get pardoned both times and met a peaceful end.
I never said Meiji era was bad! I just said that if Nobu had been the one in control during Westernization, the situation would just be different.
Well, it'd be different because there'd be a different social situation in the first place.
The Meiji era came after 200 years of Tokugawa dictature. At Nobunaga's times, population wasn't so "educated" yet, they were still rowdy warriors who could be easily influenced by Western culture but wouldn't go down without a fight-- In a sense they were more open-minded though.
Nobunaga wouldn't have stopped trading with Europe. Assuming that Portugueses and Dutches made a commercial "post" of Japan, I don't think that they would have let Englishmen (I think that Americans were out of question in the first place at the time) do the same...
The scenarios would have been so different and complicated that I don't know how relevant Nobunaga's will would have been... But Japaneses would have been a completely different matter compared to those of the after-Tokugawa.
No, because I don't usually go out of my way to look for historical manga.
Neither I do, but when I was a kid I wasn't interested in the issue and I just watched what was on TV XD
Anime sure made an impression on me :D
It said that according to some document with unclear source, he was wearing this when he went to meet Dousan for the first time, along with the tiger skin pants and everything
To be honest, it sounds like some hoax XD
Expecially because I don't think that the Nagoya dealers would have been interested in trading such fabric XD