#Ouchi Masahiro

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The Sengoku Period: 1460s - 1560

So, when did the Sengoku Jidai start? Honestly, like its namesake I can’t really pinpoint a date but it’s definitely within the realms of the 1450s to 1460s and I’d pick the days when Yamana Sozen declared his allegiance to the succession of the Shogun – Ashikaga Yoshimasa’s son and his son in law, Hosokawa Katsumoto, pledged himself to the Shogun’s brother who had been selected before the child was born. You see this situation time and again in history, all over the world, the brother gest picked because the guy has no son…only for a son to be born. Honestly, the same situation can be seen in the Todo family 130 years later and they were minor for most of their early existence.

In 1467 Yamana would gather troops with another war lord, Ouchi Masahiro and Hosokawa’s home would go up in flames. The game was on.

With rumours that Yamana intended to attack the Imperial palace Hosokawa demanded all of the Imperial family moved, paying no heed to whether these rumours were true or not. In the end Yamana did actually attack the Imperial palace and the fighting between them in Kyoto brought about its destruction. Genuinely, they completely destroyed it. The fighting would go on for months before Hosokawa convinced the Emperor and Shogun to denounce the Yamana as nothing more than rebels and undermine their supporter. Yet, it had little affect and even the deaths of both Yamana and Hosokawa did nothing to lighten up the situation.

Finally the Shogun – you know the big military leader dude, only this one was a little too concerned with poetry to actually control the situation – appealed for these people to disperse and essentially go home. However, it wouldn’t come to an end and Kyoto would still be being destroyed until 1477 when Ouchi Masahiro finally backed down, returning home but not before burning his part of Kyoto. Even with the Onin war over riots and mobs continued to descend on the city and honestly this ain’t ever gonna get better. Well, it is, but not for a long time.

The Onin war is also where we can see elements of the idea of the Western and Eastern armies. Yamana being the west and Hosokawa being the east. In 130 years time we’re going to see the big bang that is Sekigahara, the war that brought an end to the period end in much the same way as the war that started it all. Ishida Mitsunari, commander of the Western army will lose to Tokugawa Ieyasu, commander of the Eastern army, in 1600.

It’s these mobs however, that spelled the rise of the Ji-samurai or common birth samurai. What was once disorganised militias became organised armies and instrumented the rise of a very different kind of Samurai. Before this Samurai had typically been of noble birth but now simple famers and their sons did so as well. Good examples of “farmer” turned Samurai is Toyotomi Hideyoushi himself, who rose from Oda’s sandal bearer to nearly Shogun.

With these armies rising, the Hatakeyama family tearing apart any peace in their bit of the map over a family feud the future looked grim. With Yoshimasa retiring and putting his 15 year old son on the throne things really did turn sour. The Ashikaga’s suddenly seem to go through a time of not producing their own sons. Yoshihisa would produce only the daughter before dying in 1489 at the age of 24, his father taking the throne back and also dying a year later. From then on only one natural son of the Shogun, Yoshimasa, would take over before being followed by the brother who was part of the starting of the war. Then two adoptive sons, the uncle sandwiched between them.

The dominating family of the early Segoku Jidai was the Hosokawa but from what I can tell a lot of their wars were infighting. The Ryo Hosokawa war began in 1507 and was a dispute over who was going to succeed the head of the family, much like with the Shogun. Only this time Hosokawa Masamoto is super duper dead. The war would end when Hosokawa Harumoto defeated Hosokawa Takakuni, only for the entire head family to collapse when Harumoto died in 1563.

Come 1543 the Warring states is in full swing. Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen are beginning to show their capabilities, Mori Motonari is being the hotshot in the south and…the Date…aren’t really doing anything? Oda is 9, Hideyoushi is 6 and Ieyasu is a few months old. Okay, so not much is really going on but the Portuguese have just arrived and this is a big deal because what do they bring with them? Why, guns of course!

This little addition to the Japanese weapon arsenal is going to change the face of Samurai warfare. Even today, many historical figures are depicted in favouring it. Data Masamune’s weapon in Samurai Warriors is a sword and gun, which I think is an appropriate metaphor for how wars were fought now. The addition of guns allowed for distance combat, indeed it was a factor in the bringing down of the “Demon Horsemen of Kai” and if something that sounds that badass can be defeated with guns the you know everything is going to go down.

Update on the Hosokawa, the Miyoshi have just betrayed them and oh boy, that’s one massive screw you to them. Under Miyoshi Nagayoshi the Miyoshi are going to expand their territory and go on regular campaigns against the Hosokawa. Two years later Sue Harukata is going to betray Ouchi Yoshitaka at the incident at Tainei-ji. So, the two biggest players who started this all are out of picture. Just about the write time for the next big one to waltz right in.

Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) is considered the first Unifier of Japan and with good reason. While getting together much of the middle ground of Honshu, he paved the way for Hideyoushi to take up his mantle and for Ieyasu to take over and finish the job. Without Oda the warring states may have gone on longer or at least it would look very different. Without Oda, Hideyoushi wouldn’t have gone through his rise to power, certainly not in the same way at least. Ieyasu is a different matter I’ll get into another time.

So, 1560, it’s a big year. Oda Nobunaga is 26 years old, he’s finally the cemented head of the Oda clan after a succession struggle with his younger brother. That younger brother is now dead and Nobunaga really wants to show his might and his skill. He spies an opportunity at Okehazama.

The Imagawa would invade and a plucky young general, named Matsudaira Motoyasu, would capture one of Oda’s castle, Marune. This plucky little general is the future Tokugawa Ieyasu. At a disadvantage Oda looked for ways he could defeat the Imagawa and honestly, Yoshimoto gave it to him. While sending the Matsudaira to Odaka Castle Yoshimoto rested at Okehazama. This was a place that Oda knew well and really, the hill top ambush did happen.

Yoshimoto, who was so clueless as to what was happening, came out from his tent thinking that only a drunken brawl had broken out. He believed this to such an extent that he ordered the angry samurai running at him with a big spear to go back to his post. Realising that he was actually an Oda man he drew his sword and managed to break the spear, only for a second Oda man to lop off his head. Only two senior retainers would escape Okehazama.

So, what’s happened over the last 100 years. The Hosokawa have been torn apart by infighting and are almost completely powerless while Yamana is nowhere to be seen, their greatest supporters betrayed and decimated by the Sue. The rising stars of the north have risen, the Uesugi are going to play a part to the very end while the Takeda are going to go out with a slightly unimpressive bang in 1575. Our future Western Army leader, Ishida Mitsunari, has just been born as Sakichi and his family currently serve the Azai. He will be fourteen years old when he first rises to any minor prominence and even then, only as an attendant to Hideyoushi. Tokugawa Ieyasu, currently named Matsudaira Motoyasu is finally free of his life as a hostage, joining up with Oda in secret and fearing for the lives of his wife and son who are still in the hands of the down but not out Imagawa.

Finally, Oda Nobunaga has fought his defining battle, the one that has cleared his way to Kyoto and cleared the way for 22 years of plunder before he is betrayed by his loyal retainer, Akechi Mitsuhide.

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that her face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale

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Ai Fairouz, Yumiri Hanamori, Yui Ishikawa & Asami Seto to Star in TROPICAL-ROUGE! PRETTY CURE

    The official website for TROPICAL-ROUGE! PRETTY CURE, the forthcoming 18th TV series in the long-running PreCure magical girl franchise, announced its main voice cast members and theme song singers today. 

    Main voice cast:

  Manatsu Natsuumi / Cure Summer: Ai Fairouz (Hibiki Sakura in How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?)

Sango Suzumura / Cure Coral: Yumiri Hanamori (Nadeshiko Kagamihara in Laid-Back Camp)

Minori Ichinose / Cure Papaya: Yui Ishikawa (Mikasa Ackerman in Attack on Titan)

Asuka Takizawa / Cure Flamingo: Asami Seto (Raphtalia in The Rising of the Shield Hero)

Laura: Rina Hidaka (Last Order in A Certain Magical Index)

Kururun: Aimi Tanaka (Umaru Doma in Himouto! Umaru-chan)

    The opening theme song "Viva! Spark! TROPICAL-ROUGE! PRETTY CURE" is performed by Machico (KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! theme songs), while the ending theme song "Tropica I・N・G" is sung by China Yoshitake (the 16th series Star☆Twinkle PreCure ED theme songs).

    TROPICAL-ROUGE! PRETTY CURE is set to premiere in Japan on February 28, 2021. On the day before the first episode airs, February 27, the PreCure franchise's official YouTube channel will be streaming a special program "Ouchi de Ohirome Show" (Unveiling at Home Show). In addition to singing and dancing, a part of the first episode will be revealed. And there will be a section that you can enter a drawing to have your name called by the PreCure girls. Along with Cure Summer and the other PreCure girls, the two theme song singers - Machico and China Yoshitake will also appear. 

    Yutaka Tsuchida (Kirakira PreCure a la Mode the Movie: Crisply! The Memory of Mille-feuille!) serves as the series director, alongside the series composition writer Masahiro Yokotani (Re:ZERO − Starting Life in Another World) and the character designer Yukiko Nakatani (Go! Princess PreCure).

    Key visual:

  Synopsis:

  Manatsu Natsuumi is a first-year junior high school student born and raised on a small island. On the day she moves from the island, She meets Lola, a mermaid girl who has come to the earth alone in search of the legendary warrior, PreCure. Lola's hometown, Grand Ocean, is attacked by a witch who lives in the dark depths of the ocean, and all of their motivational power is taken away. It is said that if the motivational power of humans is also taken away, the world will be in deep trouble. Lola is captured by the witch's servant, and Manatsu transforms into Cure Summer to save her.

    TROPICAL-ROUGE! PRETTY CURE will be also simulcast on Crunchyroll to its members in North America, Latin America including the Caribbean, South America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. MENA and CIS Countries.

        Source: "TROPICAL-ROUGE! PRETTY CURE" official website, Oricon News

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  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

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“Nil Admirari no Tenbin: Teito Genwaku Kitan”

Serie TV anime, 1 aprile 2018

Episodi: 12

Adattamento animato della la visual novel di genere otome “Nil Admirari no Tenbin: Teito Genwaku Kitan” sviluppata da Otomate.

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-STAFF-

Regia: Masahiro Takata 

Sceneggiatura: Tomoko Konparu 

Character Design: Yukie Sakou 

Musiche: Tomoki Hasegawa 

Produzione musciale: Pony Canyon

Studio di animazione: Zero-G 

Sigla di apertura:  kradness "Tandeki Mirage-ism" 

-CAST-

Hayato Ozaki: Yuki Kaji 

Akira Kougami: Nobuhiko Okamoto 

Hisui Hoshikawa: Ryota Osaka 

Shougo Ukai: Ryouhei Kimura 

Shizuru Migiwa: Kenichi Suzumura 

Rui Sagisawa: Takahiro Sakurai 

Tsugumi Kuze: Juri Kimura

Hitaki Kuze: Ayumu Murase 

Shiori Tokinomiya: Rio Natsuk 

Keizaburou Ouchi: Norio Kobayashi 

Tsugumi Kuze: Juri Kimura

Hitaki Kuze: Ayumu Murase

Shiori Tokinomiya: Rio Natsuki 

Keizaburou Ouchi: Norio Kobayashi

Yoshitaka Nabari: Hikaru Midorikawa 

Quina: Eiji Miyashita 

Motofumi Mashiko: Kazuyuki Okitsu 

Tarou Tsubameno: Junya Enoki 

Takashi Shiginuma: Daichi Endou 

Shouko Shiginuma: Akane Sanada 

Koyuri Masaki: Minami Takahashi 

Takuma Yoshiki: Kentarou Tone 

Touichirou Sasagoi: Makoto Ishii 

Arata Kijitani: Masakazu Nishida 

Shirou Mozuyama: Seiro Ogino 

Hideki Owase: Akito Sakuragi 

La storia è ambientata durante l’era Taisho in un Giappone alternativo, agli inizi del XX secolo. Le vicende ruotano attorno ad una giovane che, per salvare il suo casato ormai caduto in disgrazia, accetta di sposare un uomo uomo di buona famiglia di cui non conosce né il nome né il volto. Poco prima del matrimonio combinato però, suo fratello minore si suicida e viene ritrovato con un vecchio libro tra le mani. Date le circostanze misteriose della morte, arrivano sul posto degli agenti del Fukuro, l’Ufficio di coordinamento e gestione delle informazioni della Biblioteca Imperiale. Secondo loro il libro è uno dei cosiddetti Maremono, un tomo in grado di soggiogare la mente di coloro che lo leggono. Ancora scossa ed incredula dopo l’evento, la protagonista si accorge di aver acquisito il potere di riconoscere questi libri maledetti, riuscendone a scorgere l'Aura che li contraddistingue.

Il videogioco per PS Vita, sviluppato da Otomate e distribuito da Idea Factory è stato pubblicato il 21 aprile 2016. Il 21 settembre 2017 è prevista l’uscita di un sequel intitolato “Nil Admirari no Tenbin: Kuroyuri Enyoutan”.

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Sue Clan

The Sue clan were related to the Ōuchi clan, and served as shugodai of Suō Province for the Ouchi they were loyal Retainers ontil Sue Harukata rebelled and placed a puppet leader in place so he can rule the clan which brought the downfall of his clan when he and his son were lured into a trap and killed.

*Prominent People*

*Sue Okifusa* (????-1539) retainer of Ôuchi Masahiro. Okifusa was a competent soldier and administrator and became one of Ôuchi Yoshioki's senior retainers and after the latter's death served Yoshitaka, whom he assisted in his battles with the Shôni on Kyushu.

*Sue Harukata* (1521-1555) Harukata was the second son of Sue Okifusa He became Ôuchi Yoshitaka's chief general and led troops to lift the Amako's siege of Môri Motonari's Koriyama castle in 1540. He also commanded troops in the abortive Ôuchi attempt to bring down Gassan-Toda in 1541-42 and afterwards endeavored to restore his lord's faltering martial spirit. In addition to his military duties, Harukata also assisted Yoshitaka in a number of land surveys Suô in 1540 and Aki in 1550. After making various remonstrations to his lord, he finally rebelled in 1551 and drove Yoshitaka to commit suicide, afterwards ruling the Ôuchi lands through Ôuchi Yoshinaga. He was compelled to chastise a number of rebellious Ôuchi retainers. He came to war with Môri Motonari and in 1554 began to attack his outlying castles. He was tricked into ordering the execution of Ôuchi retainer Era Fusahide and in 1555 was lured with his army to Miyajima, where he was trapped and killed along with his son, Nagafusa.

*Reason for rebellion*

Despite the Ōuchi's growing prosperity, Sue Harukata's clan was dissatisfied with what they saw as indulgence on their lord's part. Not only were they denied the opportunity to prove themselves in battle, the arrival of the court members threatened their political standing within the clan itself. Thus, the group launched a revolt that lasted for several days, resulting in the deaths of many officials. Yoshitaka was forced to flee to Tainei-ji Temple in Nagato where he committed suicide alongside his six year old son Yoshihiro.