Yamaoka Souhachi

During the Warring States period, when the weaklings were the only ones to survive, a man without clothes was born! Hiyoshi ran away from his hometown and obtained information about Mino, Suruga, Kai, and other countries, and served Nobunaga, who was very popular! The turmoil of Taiko Hideyoshi, who served as a bridge from Nobunaga to Ieyasu. A prosperous life!

A seminal history of Date Masamune. Yokoyama has a plain and matter of fact style for history without really trying to dramatize it. Note: Volume count based on the bunkoban.

More than 70 years after the Onin War, during the turbulent Warring States period, a revolutionary child was growing up here in Owari. Even in the Oda family, where the Kihonboshi drove a wild horse with his hair tied up with a chasen of straw, a rope sash, and his hair exposed, internal conflicts were repeated. Even when he welcomes Nohime, the daughter of Mino's Viper Dosan, as his legal wife, his pretense does not change. At his father Nobuhide's funeral in 1551, incense was placed on the memorial tablet, and the movement to disinherit Nobunaga intensified. Meanwhile, his mentor Masahide Hirate is scolded. A turbulent start to his life, whether it would end with Owari's defeat or take over the world.

In the year that Matsudaira Takechiyo (later Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born, Takeda Shingen was 22 years old and Oda Nobunaga was 9 years old. During the Sengoku period, when many military commanders were divided, military commanders aimed to unify the country. What happened to Takechiyo, the star of hope for the weak Matsudaira family ... The opening of a huge story that spans over a century and depicts the life of Ieyasu, who used his fortitude and wisdom to conquer the country and lay the foundation for 300 years of Tokugawa!