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Gracia: Mitsuhide’s Daughter, Tadaoki’s Wife

On the night of 17 July 1600, at the Hosokawa residence in the Ōsaka-Tamatsukuri quarter, a thirty-seven-year-old woman named Tama, […]

On the twenty-eighth day of the second month of the nineteenth year of Tenshō, 21 April 1591 by the modern

Akechi Mitsuhide was a head of state for eleven days. On 21 June 1582 he rode into the Honnō-ji compound

At the first grey light of 15 September 1600, in fog so thick that no commander on the Sekigahara plain

The reason I keep coming back to Inuyama is that from the top-floor veranda of its four-storey keep you can

The thing that ought to make Toyokawa Inari impossible is that it is not a shrine. It is a Sōtō

Katō Kiyomasa took his first enemy head in April 1583, at Shizugatake, aged twenty-two. He was a nobody — a

Ishida Mitsunari was forty-one years old when they cut his head off on a riverbank in Kyoto, and by any

On the morning of 10 October 1561 — old lunar calendar; the Gregorian date is 28 October, though the Japanese

There are fifteen rocks in the karesansui garden at Ryōan-ji, arranged on a rectangle of raked white gravel about twenty-five