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Oda Tatsuoki's Mischievous SchemeLoading...
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By: Andy Xing (Blue), Allison Phan (Red), Sarah Ng (Purple), and Pranjal Goyal (Green)Loading...
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You are making the choices. Failure in picking the right ones will lead to your demise.
This is Oda Tatsuoki. He is a daimyo from Medieval Japan. He lives in Kiyosu castle, which is located on Honshu Island. Honshu Island is bordered by the East China Sea to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. Kiyosu Castle is a Japanese castle located in Kiyosu, eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is known for its association with the rise to power of the Shogun, Oda Nobunaga.
Tatsuoki gazes out a window and decides that he must take action now or never, to try to gain the prosperity he believes he deserves.
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This is a samurai. Samurai are vassals or servants to the Daimyos. They typically wore heavy metal armour and carried katanas.
As Tatsuoki walks through Azuchi Castle, a place where his shogun was temporarily staying, he sees Oda Nobunaga, his shogun, generously rewarding Oda Hiratada, Oda Akito, and Oda Ieyasu, his fellow daimyo colleagues.
Oda Nobunaga is a shogun, who is someone that controls the military and foreign policy. In Feudal Japan, he is known as one of the most powerful and intelligent shoguns.
Oda Hiratada is an example of a daimyo. Daimyos are powerful Japanese magnates and feudal lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings.
The daimyos were large landowners and vassals of the shogun. Each daimyo has to hire an army of samurai warriors to protect their family's lives, as well as their property.
The daimyos were large landowners and vassals of the shogun. Each daimyo has to hire an army of samurai warriors to protect their family's lives, as well as their property.
Envious of Oda Hiratada's earnings, Oda Tatsuoki decided to devise a plan to try to bring him down. Tatsuoki was desperate for more land and money, even if that meant to threaten, or even kill his associate.
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Choose a path:
kill the most favored daimyos and start an investigation that would possibly risk your career, (page 12)
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To start off his plan, Tatsuoki makes up false information about his fellow daimyo, Oda Akito.
Tatsuoki spreads the rumors and false claims he made about Oda Akito up to the shogun.
However, the Shogun didn't know the rumors were fake.
Believing in Oda Tatsuoki's false claims, it resulted in Oda Nobunaga being disappointed in Oda Akito's actions. Oda Nobunaga, then decided to take away a portion of Akito's land.
After hearing about Oda Akito's land reduction, Oda Tatsuoki was given part of his land that he lost in compensation of the information he provided the shogun. Despite this, he was still extremely unsatisfied with it and decided to try to poison Oda Akito, to gain the rest of his land. Although he wanted to poison him, Oda Tatsuoki remembered that Oda Hiratada was still standing with a large portion of Kiyosu castle. There, Tatsuoki was left with a very difficult decision, either poision Akito or Hiratada since he only had one bottle of poison for one person.
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The shogun favors both Oda Hiratada and Oda Akito. I think Akito is more dangerous, but the shogun likes Hiratada slightly better. Which one shall I go after?
Poison Hiratada (page 4)
Poison Akito (page 5)
Hiratada's "cook" --->
posion ----->
Tatsuoki sends his samurai dressed as one of Hirarada's cooks to serve him bangohan, or dinner mixed with poison.
<--- Hiratadas servant
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The unsuspecting daimyo eats it all and starts feeling unwell.
After poisoning and killing Hiratada, Tatsuoki's samurai noticed an expensive clay pot in the corner off his eye. It was a very expensive and well known pot gifted to Hiratada after he won a calligraphy competition. It was approximately 106,746 won(currency in Medieval Japan), which is approximately 1,000 usd.
Tatsuoki's samurai delivered the pricey clay pot to Tatusoki, in which he sold later on.
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Tatsuoki wanted to trade the expensive pottery. He traded with a local trader and got spices, silver, and currency in return.
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