Harunobu suppresses Suwa and returns to Kai but his sister Nene is ill in bed at Tsutsujigasaki. She suffers from heart trouble and entreats her brother not to make Toraomaru rule Suwa. She is afraid that her son will receive a bad influence from him. And Oi Fujin tells him that he will be killed by Yu-u hime in his sleep if she becomes his concubine.
Harunobu (ICHIKAWA Kamejiro. left) sees his sister Nene (Sachiko Sakurai, centre)is ill in bed
Yu-u hime arrives in Kai and stays at the house of ITAGAKI Nobukata but she hopes to stay at Tokoji Temple where her father committed hara-kiri. Her maid Shima admonishes her to behave as a daughter of the Suwas. Harunobu says that he will make her his concubine at council but is opposed by Nobushige and his vassals. Only Kansuke says that she doesn’t dislike him and proposes an idea of making their son rule Suwa.
Harunobu (back facing) hopes to make Yu-u hime become his concubine and is opposed but Kansuke (Seiyo Uchino, centre).
But Yu-u hime still insists that she does
not want to become his concubine. Kansuke asks her how she will keep on living
then. Dealing with a woman is much harder for him than devising a stratagem.
Harunobu hands him a tanzaku (strip of paper) on which his waka (poem) is written and
orders him to give it to her. As it is of poor quality, she relaxes into a smile.
Kansuke is ordered to give Harunobu's poem to Yu-u hime
Nobukata who is appointed to Gundai (province representative) of Suwa advises Kansuke that she should abandon the hostility to the Takedas. And he also tells him to make Denbei connected with him if there is something. Within about six months, Harunobu and Sanjo Fujin lose their child and Nene dies after that. Besides it goes on raining in Kai.
Kansuke who is at home hears that AMARI Torayasu visits Yu-u hime. Torayasu asks her
for what she survives and her dead father will be sorry if he sees his daughter
tries to gain the favour of Harunobu. Yu-u hime takes a dagger he puts in
front of her and is going to commit suicide. Torayasu says it is aptly that
such high-minded woman attracts his lord.
Amari Torayasu (Raita Ryu, left) tells Yu-u hime (Miyuki Shibamoto)to committ suicide with his dagger
Yu-u hime (centre) bows to Sanjo Fujin (Chizurru Ikewaki, second from the left)
Then Sanjo Fujin with her maid s appear there. Yu-u hime tells her it is her fate but she sees her husband’s poem in the room and speaks to her emphatically,
“You must be so miserable because you lost your home province.”
Though Hagino is pleased with her words, she doesn’t seem to be happy. And Yu-u hime sympathises with her and decides to live together with Harunobu.
The images are from the video of "Furin Kazan"
Yu-u hime asks Kansuke why he saved her and he answers that she has a charm of Malici he believes in. Then she decides to live as ordianry woman and leaves there in traveling outfit with her maids. In Kai, Harunobu says that his attack on Suwa is not his real purpose and orders OBU Toramasa to become a moriyaku (tutor) of his son Taro. Toramasa accepts it but is told that Harunobu hopes to make Yu-u hime as his concubine by his brother Genshiro.
Yu-u hime (Miyuki Shibamoto, centre) leaves Suwa with her maids Shima (Akemi Omori, left) and Maki (Maiko Otani, right)
Then they see Hagino, maid of Sanjo Fujin approaches them with Taro. She asks them about every details of the concubine they talk about but ITAGAKI Nobukata forbids it severely. And Nene has not accepted food since the death pf her husband. It makes Sanjo Fujin worries it but she says to her,
"My husband Yorishige was killed by your husband."
Sanjo Fujin (Chizuru Ikewaki. right) visits Nene (Sachiko Sakurai) who never eats anything
Sanjo Fujin tells Harunobu about it and it is rumoured that he will have a concubine but he denies it. However, it’s true and it troubles both Nobukata and AMARI Torayssu and they consider how they should deal with Yu-u hime. At that time, soldiers search her and her maids who disappears. Yu-u hime's appetite for life reminds Kansuke of Mitsu. However, Denbei comes there and tells Kansuke that Harunobu wants to see her and he urges his horse to them.
Kansuke (Seiyo Uchino) on horseback finds Yu-u hime and her maids are surrounded by ronins.
He sees them surrounded by ronins employed by the Takedas to kill her. He cuts them down and tells her to return to Suwa. Though Yu-u hime is at a loss and weeps, he glosses over the situation but Shima blames him because he once allowed them to escape. Yu-u hime asks Kansuke why he wears eyepatch that is cut down when he fought against ronins. He asks he tries to cover his ugly face but she says,
“Your face is not ugly but your heart is foul”.
Then they return to Suwa.
Hisa (Asami Mizukawa, left) tells Heizo not to approach her
At
that time, Takato Yoritsugu starts a rebellion against Harunobu to occupy the
whole of Suwa. But Harunobu fight against him with young
Toraomaru as his head. He takes him to the battle with him though opposed by Nene who
says that he follows the same pattern of Nobutota. Harunobu says that Toraomaru will understand his feeling soon. The presence of Toraomaru
attracts Suwa people including Yazaki Jugoro and Heizo.
Hisa, daughter of Jugoro slips
out of Aruga castle and rerurns to her home but is assaulted by some
soldiers who look for valuable goods there. She happens to meet her
father and Heizo and tells Heizo not to approach her because she was
insulted but he hugs her. She also tells him and her father that it it the scheme of Harunobu and
they decide to leave Suwa. After that, Yoritsugu puts up a poor fight and
Renpoken is killed in the battle. After his escape, Harunobu occupies
the whole of Suwa and make those who are against him surrender.
Harunobu (ICHIKAWA Kamejiro, centre) walks along the corridor with Toraomaru followed by Kasuga Gengoro (kotaro Tanaka, second from the left) and Obu Genshiro (Yasuyuki Maekawa, second from the right)
Kansuke visits Yu-u hime who takes refuge to avoid the war with her maids, He tells her that she will depart for Kai on the following day. But she keeps sitting there without taking any notice of him. Besides, she throws the charm of Malici to him saying that she doesn’t want to have the god he believes in. Then she grumbles the situation is hell on earth.
Author:aK
まず、一部の記事関連でレイアウトが崩れるようですので修復していますが、何かおかしな点があれば指摘していただけると幸いです。それから当ブログでは、相互リンクは受け付けておりませんので悪しからずご了承ください。
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