Your father death changed era. Once you become a man of that caliber, You can choose to live or die as you please

“I wonder… if it was good for me to be born…”

This quote is from Ace in “One Piece.”

Just 8 years.

That’s how long it took Toyotomi Hideyoshi to achieve national unification.

In 1582, with the death of Oda Nobunaga in the Incident at Honnōji, the Oda Empire fell apart.

At that time, Hideyoshi was fighting against the Mori clan in the Chūgoku region.

However, upon learning of Nobunaga’s death, he immediately concealed it and made peace with the Mori clan, swiftly turning his attention to Kyoto, where his lord’s enemy, Akechi Mitsuhide, was located.

This was known as the “Chūgoku O-Gaeshi” (Counter in Chūgoku).

Hideyoshi defeated Mitsuhide just 11 days after Nobunaga’s death, successfully demonstrating to all of Japan that he could potentially succeed Nobunaga.

The ones who couldn’t accept this were Nobunaga’s retainers who had supported the Oda clan even before Hideyoshi’s rise.

However, many retainers chose to support Hideyoshi for their own survival, and only Shibata Katsuie chose to oppose him.

Katsuie’s legal wife was Nobunaga’s younger sister, Oichi.

I feel that Oichi’s life, or rather, her blood, embodies the Sengoku period itself.

Oichi, also known as one of the most beautiful women of the Sengoku period, was born at Nagoya Castle.