Sekigahara

A lot going on with Jadwiga's story on top of this, and again, episode 168 for all the details there.

Another great one from the archives is episode 232, which is all about a bloke named Tokugawa Ieyasu, who on the 21st of October in the year 1600, this week in history, won the Battle of Sekigahara, an extremely important battle in Japanese history.

We've had a lot of very important battles featured on this week in history recently.

And the Battle of Sekigahara right up there with the likes of the Battle of Hastings in terms of its historical importance.

There's no way I'm going to be able to condense the entire story of Tokugawa Ieyasu in this little synopsis here.

But essentially, after a long period of civil war and strife across Japan, famous figures like Oda Nobunaga were campaigning to unify the splintered realm.

But it was Tokugawa Ieyasu who clinched a decisive victory at Sekigahara to bring Japan together once and for all.

This was the date from which the Tokugawa shogunate is generally considered to have begun a military dictatorship that ruled Japan for the next two and a half centuries.

Ayasu began moving almost immediately.

His maneuvering among the Regent Council, his cultivation of alliances with lords who felt marginalized by the dominant faction around Hidyori, and his careful accumulation of political support over the next two years brought the conflict to a head in 15 minutes, on the 15th day of the 9th month of 1600, at a valley in central Japan called Sekigahara.

The battle that followed lasted a full day and was decided partly by the defection of several lords on the opposing side who had made private arrangements with Ieyasu beforehand.

His coalition won.

He had been watching, building, and waiting for most of his adult life, and the patience had paid off with a completeness that left almost no room for argument.

Peace and its discontents.

Tokugawa Ieyasu moved quickly after Sekigahara to make the victory permanent rather than provisional.

The redistribution of domains following the battle was not simply punitive, it was architectural.

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When the two armies did face off, the forces on each side were large and rather evenly divided, something like 80 or 90,000 men on each side.

But Mitsunari's forces found themselves in a position where they could be surrounded and bypassed when they saw Ieyasu and his men approaching, so they marched quickly west to a better position, on the plains outside of Sekigahara village.

Meanwhile, some of the daimyo were doubting the choices they had made.

One had already made his decision to switch sides.

Another person who was spared was Ieyasu's son, Hidetata.

Tokugawa Hidetata was, by 1600, 21 years old and had proven himself an able general.

His army of nearly 20,000 was off fighting allies of the western army when he was ordered to make haste to Sekigahara.

But the enemy had him pinned down and he arrived days too late.

Think about where Shogun leaves us, or rather what the entire narrative is constantly building toward.

The whole story revolves around the tension leading up to the Battle of Sekigahara in the year 1600.

Right.

And Toranaga is explicitly modeled on the real historical figure, Tokugawa Ieyasu.

We read them to safely experience the terrifying anxiety of massive historical forces.

Oh, that's good.

The battlefield in Pachinko isn't a muddy field in Sekigahara.

It's the marketplace.