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At the heart of Japanese Bushido, there are two words: Loyalty. For the ancient Japanese samurai, it was their duty and righteousness to give up everything they had and be loyal to the lord.
However, during the Warring States period in Japan, there was a famous military general who suddenly rebelled "without warning", killed the lord of Japan and rewrote the history of Japan, thus winning himself the bad reputation of "the first rebel general in Japanese history".
Photo: Wise Mitsuhide kills Oda Nobunaga
Initiated the Honnōji Rebellion and killed Oda Nobunaga's wise Mitsuhide.
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Can you imagine Zhang Liao's sudden rebellion and killing Cao Cao? In general, Oda Nobunaga was Cao Cao of the Japanese Warring States, and Wise Mitsuhide was Zhang Liao.
The "Sixth Day Demon King" Oda Nobunaga was the overlord of Japan's Sengoku period, with great talent, eastern conquest and western conquest, and unification of the world is just around the corner. Mitsuhide was one of Oda Nobunaga's most trusted and powerful generals, but it was he who defected.
Photo: Portrait of Oda Nobunaga and Mitsuhide Wise
On June 1, 1582, Oda Nobunaga ordered a large army to reinforce Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was attacking the Maori clan, and that night Nobunaga stayed at Honnoji Temple in Kyoto, with a guard of only 100 men.
Pictured: The rebellion of Wise Mitsuhide
Mitsuhide led his 13,000 troops to set off, and after crossing the Katsuragawa River in the early morning of the 2nd, Mitsuhide suddenly issued one of the most famous orders in Japanese history to the army: "The enemy is at Honnoji Temple!" "Meaning: I have decided to betray the Lord!"
Pictured: Mitsuhide Wise in a Japanese period drama
Mitsuhide's rebels were suddenly killed, the guards of Honnō-ji Temple were killed in a hurry, and Nobunaga was forced to commit suicide. Mitsuhide then marched into Kyoto, and Nobunaga's eldest son, Oda Nobunaga, led more than a thousand of his men to fight, but they were outnumbered and killed in the abdomen.
Photo: Ukiyo-e "Honnoji's Change"
Within three days, Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful lord of the prestige, was killed in one fell swoop, and Mitsuhide completed the largest coup rebellion in Japanese history.
Mitsuhide's fate was not good, and it was not long before he was defeated by the counter-rebel army led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the Battle of Tennozan, and on the way to escape, he was seriously injured by the villagers of the "Fallen Samurai Hunt" with bamboo guns, and committed suicide by cutting his abdomen. At the same time, his wife committed suicide and his men were slaughtered.
Pictured: The tomb of the Wise Mitsuhide clan
Two
Why did Wise Guangxiu suddenly rebel against the Emperor? Ruin your own home?
Pictured: The 2007 era drama "Enemy in Honnoji Temple"
This is a difficult mystery that has plagued Japanese historians. There are more than 50 speculations about various motives alone, such as resentment (Nobunaga had humiliated him in public, and Mitsuhide's mother died because of Nobunaga), terror (fear of being killed by Nobunaga), royalist theory (claiming that Mitsuhide was the emperor's loyal vassal), ambition (wanting to kill Nobunaga instead), Shikoku theory, imperial court saying, Uniga ieyasu saying, and so on.
Pictured: Wise Light Show portrait
In any case, Mitsuhide's rebellion led to the change of the Japanese overlord, Nobunaga's general Toyotomi Hideyoshi was able to dominate the world, and Nobunaga's descendants were killed very few.
Four hundred years later, an interesting news broke in Japan: the descendants of the two shook hands and made peace.
In 2017, at a flower viewing tea party in Tokyo, Oda Nobunaga's 17th line descendant and descendant of Nobunaga's seven sons, Oda Nobunaga, met with Chris Paple, a descendant of Mitsuhide Wise, to shake hands on behalf of two entangled families, achieving a historic "reconciliation" of more than 400 years.
Pictured: Oda Nobunari and Chris shake hands to "reconcile"
Time has passed, just as Yue Fei's descendants and Jin Wushu's descendants have talked and laughed about wine, Nobunaga and Mitsuhide's descendants can face history calmly. The two now have a very special identity: Oda Nobunari was a famous Japanese figure skater, and Chris is an American citizen and an actor.
Before shaking hands, Chris deliberately made a trembling gesture, but the two finally held hands together and smiled at the camera.
The comments of netizens were very happy: "Live a long time to see", "two unworthy descendants", "The coffin board of the Great Demon King can't be suppressed..."
Reference: History of the Warring States of Japan