KKiku
If you look and see nothing, you must simply look harder.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Which comes first, God or your purse strings?
I am no peasant to be trodden upon. I am daughter of the great Lord Akechi Jinsai.
[The Osaka Castle guards has successfully held the line against Mariko fighting them all so she and her entourage can leave]
It is not possible to fight through all these men. We must go back.
Accepting death isn't surrender. Flowers are only flowers because they fall.
[In Akiro, Tonomoto Akinao is bringing John to Lord Toranaga]
TATonomoto Akinao
Until we find those who aided the Christian raiders, no one in this village will rest. Lord Toranaga has ordered it. [Walks past boards holding decapitated heads of European sailors]
[forced on his knees before Toranaga] Lord.
Thank you for returning my consorts and my vassals.
You’ve heard the news that Lady Mariko is dead.
Yes, I know. That night, you were seen letting intruders into my quarters.
One of Mariko’s ladies-in-waiting was with you in the cellar. She sent a letter to Omi. After Lady Mariko’s death, they say you were guilt-stricken and asked for forgiveness. I felt it was my duty to alert our lord.
Did you aid this attack?
[Sighs and inhales sharply] Yes, I did.
Fine. All of your lands are forfeit. Please slit your belly by sunset tomorrow.
Lord... If you must kill me, give me a good death! Like being torn apart by cannon or eaten alive by a school of angry fish! I beg you! Please!
Fine suggestions, but I don’t trust you. Please commit seppuku by sunset tomorrow.
Izu is the fief of the Kashigi clan. I declare Omi to be my heir, and request it be given to him.
It is fair to ask, but Izu is no longer yours to give. Who would you like to second your death?
Let it be the Anjin.
No.
In that case, I would be honored if it would be you, Lord.
I shall. Until tomorrow, then.
[to John as he is carried off] May Fudō Myō’ō smile on tomorrow.
If I could use words like scattering flowers and fallen leaves, what a bonfire my poems would make.
KNKiri No Kata
Those words are too beautiful to belong to you.
They belong to Lady Mariko. Only her words remain with us now. But what a bonfire she made.
War is inevitable.
OOchiba
It was written by my friend.
HThe Heir
The one who was just buried?
OOchiba
Yes. So we must finish the poem.
I, Anjin, by my death, protest the callous punishment of this village by Yoshii Toranaga.
[Yabushige is awaiting his execution at an oceanside cliff with Lord Toranaga]
If only I could have lived to see it... the day your plan comes together, whatever it is... my nephew’s first battle... when the Anjin sails against the Christians who burned his ship... so many days I could have seen.
If only it were that simple. The ship had to be destroyed. It was between that and the Anjin’s life. Appointing a watchman to spread gunpowder... wasn’t that hard. Mariko negotiated for the Church, and I agreed.
You burned that ship.
It was a necessary ruse to test the Anjin. Perhaps someday I’ll tell him the truth. By then he’ll have rebuilt the ship, and I’ll likely have to destroy it again. I don’t think it’s his fate to ever leave Japan.
How does it feel to shape the wind to your will?
I don’t control the wind. I only study it.
[Sighs] But how can you win this? With your forces outnumbered, the Heir’s army about to attack... is it Crimson Sky? I suppose it could work... but I don’t see how. At least tell me before I die...
Yabushige. After all we’ve been through, I thought you of all people would see. Crimson Sky is already finished. With the Regents united, I could never send an army to Osaka. It would have meant certain death. So I sent a woman to do what an army never could. Don’t you see what’s coming next? In just one month, we will meet our enemies at Sekigahara. Five armies squaring off on the field of battle. And you’re right... with the Heir’s army on Ishido’s side, I’d be finished. However, because of Mariko’s actions, Lady Ochiba has grown tired of her alliance with Ishido. In a letter to me, she secretly pledged to keep the Heir’s army from the battlefield. On that day, Ishido will have no banner. The Regents will turn on him before a sword is drawn. Only then will my dream be realized... I will start it in Edo, my center of power. A nation without wars. An era of great peace. All of us have made this possible. You, me, Lady Mariko... even the barbarian who came out of the sea. [Sighs]]How many times I’ve thought of giving his life away, but stopped. Not because he’s important... my banner would survive without him... [Chuckles] but because he makes me laugh. And my enemies need a distraction.
It’s hypocrisy, our lives... all this death and sacrifice from lesser men just to ensure some victory in our names.
Do you remember what the Anjin said on the day we met, when I told him his fight was pointless?
“Unless I win.”
If you win, anything is possible. Even Shōgun. [Yabushige gasps]
It’s what you’ve always wanted, isn’t it? You’re no better than us, in your secret heart... tell me the truth. I’ll take it to my grave.
Why tell a dead man the future? [decapitates Yabushige as he commits seppuku]
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