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City Sendai

City Sendai with population 710.000 people.

Future of Touhoku

We show you the opening of exposition "Future of Touhoku".

'87 Exposition "Future of Touhoku"

Numerous pavilions and events gather popularity...

...and number of visitors achieved already 2.000.000.

The 73-days-long exposition will end in few days.

Star Festival

This is well-know Star Festival.

The City of Trees Sendai,

...as vital-point of trade and traffic, is developing more and more.

And of course, this stared with Date Masamune.

Masamune built here a big castle and castle town.

Western Army

Ishida Mitsunari decapitated

Konishi Yukinaga decapitated

Ukita Hideie exiled

Mori Terumoto income 120->37

Uesugi Kagekatsu income 120->30

Satake Yoshinobu income 55->21

Eastern Army

Fukushima Masanori income 20->50

Kuroda Nagamasa income 18->52

Kato Kiyomasa income 25->52

Ikeda Terumasa income 15->52

Yamauchi Katsutoyo income 7->20

Mogami Yoshiaki income 24->57

Date Masamune income 58->60

Tokugawa Ieyasu, wining the Battle of Sekigahara,

trying to seize the whole country...

...started immediately giving out the reward.

The commanders in Eastern Army supporting Ieyasu...

...each of them greatly increased his income,

...and only Masamune's increase was in amount of 2.000.

This was meant as punishment for

Masamune supporting Waga-rebellion in southern domains.

And now during 400 centuries,

...has this 600.000 income become a metropolis with 710.000 people.

Mutsu Area with income 600.000

Dokuganryu Masamune (One-eyed Dragon Masamune)

Episode 38: Building Sendai Castle

Screenplay by James Miki

Based on the novel "Date Masamune" by Sohachi Yamaoka

Music by Shinichiro Ikebe

Theme music performed by NHK Symphony Orchestra

CAST

Masamune Date: KEN WATANABE

Shigezane Date: TOMOKAZU MIURA

Kojuro Katakura: TERUHIKO SAIGO

Princess Mego: JUNKO SAKURADA

Sadatsuna Ouchi: MINORI TERADA

Lady Yodo KANAKO HIGUCHI

Sokun Imai: KEI TANI

Munenori Yagyu: RENJI ISHIBASHI

Harunaga Ono: TAKAAKI ENOKI

Nagayasu Okubo: RYUNOSUKE KANEDA

Lady Neko: KUMIKO AKIYOSHI

Ieyasu Tokugawa: MASAHIKO TSUGAWA

October 1601.

Fushimi Castle

Ieyasu ordered Masamune to come to Kyoto.

At the time, Ieyasu had left Osaka Castle

and was using Fushimi Castle as his base.

Thanks for coming from afar.

I am very pleased to see you looking so well.

It's been a while.

I congratulate you on your decisive victory.

You did well, too. I thank you.

Thank you for your kind words.

Did you meet Hidetada?

I had the honor of seeing him at Edo Castle

and he was very kind to me.

That's good.

Here is an inventory of Sir Date's gifts.

- Munenori. - Yes, Sir.

The castle?

Excuse me?

I mean Sendai Castle.

Is the construction going well?

We're a bit stymied by the lack of forced laborers.

I'm not surprised.

Since I hear it's a stone mountain castle

larger than Osaka Castle.

Oh no, it's a size befitting my station in life.

Mountain castles are rare these days.

Your vassals will have a hard time commuting.

It will build up their muscles.

I see. You're strengthening your army

barricading them in the castle.

Are you thinking of going to war?

A warrior must be prepared even in peaceful times.

So that when a war does break out

he is ready to go to battle for the country.

Oh? Who did you say you'd work for?

For the county,

which means I plan to work on your behalf.

That's very sensible.

Build a big castle that will be the cornerstone of Ou.

Thank you, sir.

How are the residential plots allotted?

Excuse me?

How much land do the warriors get?

I haven't decided.

That's strange.

Pardon me?

Our investigation shows 2,000 tsubo for warriors

with income of more than 1,000

and 1,000 for warriors who earn more than 500.

Did you send your spy?

It's not good for you to conceal things from me.

I just slipped my mind.

I must also allot plots in Edo...

to the daimyo lords for their mansions.

Sir Ieyasu will soon move to Edo

and will rule the country from there.

That's wonderful.

You make the eastern warriors proud.

The Date mansion will be in Sakurada.

I have to give you a large mansion

befitting your income.

Thank you, sir.

Even though you're building a castle in Sendai,

your family must live in Edo.

- As you please. - You, too.

You can't go home until I permit it.

If I may say so,

I'm in the middle of building a castle.

Don't worry.

According to my investigation

the construction is going well

under your vassals' able supervision.

I appreciate you coming here swiftly on my orders.

Your wife must be eager to see you.

Date Mansion, Fushimi

Welcome home.

I am happy to see you looking so well.

I'm sorry for the hardship you went through.

I thought I'd never see you alive again.

We relied on Lady Kita no Mandokoro's mercy.

I also praise Sadatsuna's judicious actions.

That's good. I'll remember to praise him.

Say hello to your father.

Welcome home.

Come here.

Come.

You've grown.

Is the Sendai Castle finished?

Right now we're building the stone wall.

We're moving big stones and lumber

all the warriors and peasants are working very hard.

Hirose River, a beautiful river runs by the castle

and we have to build a large bridge

that connects the town and the castle.

I want to see the castle.

Oh?

Please take me to the castle in Sendai.

All right. Be good and obey your mother's orders.

Princess, Sir Toragikumaru, this way.

All right, I'll see you later.

How was Sir Tokugawa?

About the Tadachika Waga incident?

No admonishment at all.

- That was good. - But in exchange...

I lost the one million stipend.

At least you have your life.

The gods abandon me at the most inopportune times.

The taiko chased me out of Aizu after I subjugated it,

Ieyasu won't give me the one million he promised.

I've been working hard with nothing to show for it.

It's like I'm losing in a game of snakes and ladders.

Just when I'm about to finish, I'm back at the start.

Please don't lament.

There's more fun in continuing to play.

Don't try to comfort me.

I've been ordered to stay.

To stay?

I was told not to venture east of Fushimi...

when I'm in the midst of building my dream castle.

I have to twiddle my thumbs here.

I'm here in Fushimi.

Toragiku and Iroha, too.

We've been hostages for so long

unable to go back home

and we've been counting the days until your arrival.

- Mego... - I know...

how important castle building is for warriors.

However...

I am happy you are obliged to stay.

I want to always be with you.

My lord.

I've been waiting for you.

You're looking well.

This is Gonpachiro.

He's sleeping.

He looks very smart.

- A good son. - Thank you.

Gonpachiro.

Gonpachiro.

We have to have a belated celebration.

Come, come see Hidemune, too.

Hidemune.

Your father is here.

It's been a long time.

Welcome home.

- I am happy... - You've been well?

Yes.

What's the matter? Look at me.

What happened to you?

- I'm sorry. - Who did this to you?

Hidemune tried to tame an unruly bronco and fell.

Fool!

What if you break your neck?

I apologize again.

Here.

Hidemune loves martial arts like you

and he is getting better with a sword and bow and arrow.

How about scholarship?

Please don't worry.

Hidemune is versed in the Chinese classics,

also in poetry

and is praised by his teachers.

I'm not asking you.

That's great.

You have my praise.

Thank you.

Since Hidemune is Date's eldest child

I ask you to arrange an audience with Sir Tokugawa

as soon as possible.

This is not the right time.

That's strange.

The taiko gave him a letter from his name

and he has an imperial rank.

It would be discourteous not to ask for an audience.

- Stop meddling. - I'm not.

What are you scheming?

How can you say that?

I'm so disappointed.

But Hidemune is different.

I won't let Date's eldest child be disrespected.

You said you will decide the heir

based on the character of the child.

Don't be tedious.

No, I ask you again.

What are your plans for Hidemune's engagement?

I haven't thought about that.

How cold.

I had plans to receive Hideiye Ukita's daughter.

But, he sided with Mitsunari Ishida and the clan perished.

It's a good example of haste makes waste.

Then how about a daughter from the Tokugawa family.

It's not that easy.

Why?

Princess Iroha is about to marry into the Tokugawa.

That may not happen.

Ieyasu is displeased with me.

Iroha's engagement will probably be annulled.

Oh my!

Ieyasu...

Ieyasu...

Masamune secretly visited Tsunamoto Moniwa's mansion

and met Lady Ko.

Are you well?

Thank you.

Sir Tsunamoto and all the Moniwa family

are treating us very well.

You're well behaved, Matajiro.

Thank you.

I'm sorry I can't see him in public

although he is my child.

Forgive me.

I want you to do something for me.

I'm happy to oblige.

Take Matajiro and leave Fushimi for Sendai.

Go see Tsunamoto.

He is the caretaker lord of Sendai Castle.

Are we in your way?

That's not so.

Ieyasu is displeased with me and I am confined here.

My family and I won't be able to return home for some time.

Is that so?

You and Matajiro are the only ones

who can leave Fushimi.

Who knows what will happen.

If the worst happens,

I want at least one of my children to survive.

If the Date clan perishes

Matajiro would remain to restore the clan one day.

I understand.

Thank you.

This sword will prove his identity.

Towards the end of the year,

Lady Ko and Matajiro left for Sendai.

New Years, 1602.

Masamune visited Osaka Castle without Ieyasu's permission

and had an audience with Hideyori Toyotomi.

I wish you a happy New Year and take this opportunity

to extend my hopes for the Toyotomi's prosperity.

Thank you.

Sir Masamune?

Your New Year's greeting... Fushimi or Osaka first?

She's asking if you went to Sir Ieyasu or Sir Hideyori first?

That goes without saying. My master was the taiko.

So I couldn't go to Sir Tokugawa

before coming to Sir Hideyori.

I applaud you.

But most of the lords

have forgotten their debt to the taiko

and go first to Fushimi.

Who do they think Hideyori is?

It is lamentable.

All the lords are spineless and do as Tokugawa wishes.

That way their income keeps rising.

I heard your increase was only 20,000.

I don't know why but he doesn't look kindly on me.

Why is that, I wonder?

Sir Date has backbone.

To put it plainly he's a thorn in his side.

If he was given a million

Tokugawa must watch his back.

How small. So like Ieyasu.

I hear you are building a huge castle in your fief.

Yes, it's larger than Edo and Osaka castles.

Oh? Rumor has it that

Sir Tokugawa will stop the construction.

That's ridiculous.

If that's true, I'm prepared.

What do you mean?

I'm prepared to go to war with Sir Tokugawa.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Excuse me?

If you had joined Mitsunari

he would not have lost to Ieyasu.

Unfortunately, Mitsunari wasn't capable.

A ruler needs to embrace both good and evil.

You mean Sir Tokugawa.

There's one person here too.

Forgive me. I shouldn't have bragged.

Sir Masamune?

You've lifted my spirits.

Please come to Osaka from time to time

and get to know Hideyori.

Thank you.

Sir Harunaga? More sake.

Someone.

Why did you go see Sir Hideyori without permission?

Fushimi Castle

Sir Tokugawa reallocated lands

as Sir Hideyori's representative.

I merely offered greetings to the family head.

You don't understand the position you're in...

I'm not under house arrest!

I didn't go east of Fushimi.

I resent having my every move questioned.

The minister is very angry.

That's so unreasonable.

It's you who are being unreasonable.

This is the Date way.

The lord is here.

As the head of the Date family,

I'm here to offer our New Year's greeting to you.

How old are you now, Masamune?

I am thirty-six.

You're still a brat.

Excuse me?

Did Lady Yodo badmouth me?

She was out of sorts.

She's so hard-nosed, she's hard to control.

Will you go to war and kill Sir Hideyori?

That would be breaking my promise to the taiko.

Then why don't you go to Osaka?

Insolence.

Are you giving orders to the minister?

Shut up.

You said you would rule based on moral principles.

I believe that means to go through proper channels

and honor reason.

Although Sir Hideyori is still young,

he will be the kanpaku.

It's natural I pay respect to him

as one who serves him.

Masamune.

Come closer.

What you say is correct.

Hideyori will eventually become kanpaku.

But the world has changed.

No one can maintain order in the country

without the help of warriors.

It's a contest of endurance.

Ieyasu finally visited Osaka Castle in February

to wish Hideyori a happy New Year.

But Lady Yodo and those close to Hideyori

didn't alter their hardline against Ieyasu.

Tokugawa is unexpectedly lenient.

How can the winner of the Battle of Sekigahara

be fooled by that Osaka vixen

and be at a loss how to deal with her?

No, Sir Ieyasu is very shrewd.

While doing his duty to Sir Hideyori

he's trying to get the favor of the Imperial Court

and waiting for his chance.

What chance?

What? I'll tell you.

Many of the Toyotomi hereditary vassals

are abandoning Osaka Castle

and leaning towards Tokugawa.

Eventually, Sir Hideyori will have no one.

So he's slowly tightening the noose around his neck?

He's the best schemer in the country.

Even I can't hold a candle to him.

Ieyasu intends to issue official notices to the daimyo lords

to contribute to the building of Nijo and Fushimi castles.

What?

Are we to provide forced labor as well?

Of course. If we refuse he'll consider us an enemy.

This is very inconvenient.

It will affect the construction for Sendai Castle.

I'm not going to stand for it.

We can't bow to Ieyasu's harassment.

I agree.

Sending labor for Nijo Castle can't be helped

but we can't delay the construction of Sendai Castle.

We have to complete it at any cost.

Yes, sir.

Already, Date's hereditary towns of artisans are moving

from Iwadeyama to Sendai

and the castle town is bustling.

Shigenobu, Tsunamoto and other vassals

are united in going beyond the call of duty.

I think we may be done by summer.

I was almost killed three times by the taiko.

He made me run around in circles at his will.

I'm no longer a kid.

I'm not the Masamune of old.

I'll preside over Oshu as its king from Sendai Castle

and someday Ieyasu will get his comeuppance

and kneel at my feet.

However

to demonstrate Tokugawa's power to the country

Ieyasu began to build daimyo mansions

around Edo Castle.

Hidemune.

Yes, sir.

I am sending you to Edo.

What?

Sir Ieyasu gave us a splendid mansion.

We have to accept it with thanks.

You're not sending him as a hostage?

It can't be helped.

All the daimyo lords will send hostages to Edo.

Are you forsaking Hidemune?

Fool.

Edo is the headquarters of Tokugawa's 2.4 million fief.

Eventually it will exceed even Kyoto in prosperity.

Then Sir Toragikumaru will go to Edo, too?

No. Just Hidemune.

I don't like it.

Why must Hidemune be the one to go?

Toragiku is still young.

He hasn't come of age. He can't be my representative.

Then, I will go with him.

What?

As a mother, I can't bear the thought of

Hidemune facing hardships in an unknown land.

Don't worry.

Seibei, and many vassals will accompany him.

He needs a parent to raise him.

You have Gonpachiro.

Gonpachiro is my child. So is Hidemune.

That goes without saying.

Even if you won't permit it, I will go to Edo with Hidemune.

Don't be obstinate.

My lord. My lord, please.

Please wait.

I won't be parted from my child ever again.

If that happens, I will kill myself.

Please. Please allow me to go.

September.

Lady Neko, also known as Lady Iizaka

accompanied Hidemune and left for Edo taking Gonpachiro.

Osaka people are too proud.

I told them I'll give Hideyori a 600,000 income

but they are finding fault with the arrangement.

Carrots for horses, catnip for cats.

Catnip?

Bring Lady Yodo down.

- You mean kill her? - No, no.

Entrap her with sexual charm.

Who will?

You, of course, using your wiles.

That's ridiculous.

Why don't you tell her

you'll take charge of Sir Hideyori and raise him?

- You're a clever man. - Thank you.

But at sixty-one, I'm too old for that.

If I wait patiently without any fuss

a path will naturally show itself.

I'm afraid I'm a bit short-tempered.

Oh, then you'll seduce her?

Oh, please not that.

Then what are you talking about?

Your magnanimity allowed me to finish

Sendai Castle's construction.

So, I want your permission to return home

to attend the completion ceremony.

It's too early.

But Sir Date refrained from building a castle tower.

That is out of respect for you.

I know that.

I've sent my eldest child Hidemune to Edo.

I will leave my heir Toragikumaru in Fushimi.

Masamune.

Don't keep saying Sendai so loudly.

If you have any respect for me,

you would follow form and to go to Edo first.

October.

Masamune accompanied Ieyasu to Edo

and had an audience with Ieyasu's third son Hidetada.

Date Mansion, Edo

How befitting as the home of the Tokugawa clan.

All the daimyo mansions are spacious,

they're just as good as those in Fushimi.

I've finally figured out Ieyasu's strategy.

He's going to set Hideyori up as kanpaku

and confine him to Osaka and save face for Toyotomi.

While on the other, he's gathering the daimyos in Edo

to seize real power by showing off military might.

So that's it.

If he establishes the seat of government in Kanto

it's the second coming of Sir Yoritomo.

No matter how you look at it, Sir Ieyasu has the upper hand.

He's not very skillful

but while not going against the laws of nature,

he knows when to push and when to retreat.

He has keen insight.

He's not going to take Japan by force

he's making it so that the rule will come to him.

Stop admiring him.

If Ieyasu is thinking ahead,

I have to be two steps ahead of him.

I agree.

If Ieyasu is creating his capital in Edo,

I will create a capital in Sendai.

Kojuro. Shigezane.

If we have to go to war with Ieyasu

the defense of Kakuda, Shiroishi and Watari is key.

You're right.

I already have Akimitsu Ishida in Kakuda Castle.

Therefore, I'll put you in Shiroishi Castle.

And you will take over Watari Castle.

My lord.

Are you dissatisfied?

Of course not.

I once abandoned my castle and absconded.

I never imagined you'd give me a castle again.

Well, Kojuro.

It is my pleasure.

I will do all I can to obey your will.

Make haste and go to your appointed fiefs.

And make the castle doubly secure in my stead

and tighten the reins of rule.

I will do as you wish.

I know what to do.

February 12, 1603.

The Imperial Court appointed Ieyasu Tokugawa as shogun.

This meant that Ieyasu

whose aim was to establish a samurai government

became Japan's de facto power and authority.

On the other hand,

Ieyasu appointed Hideyori Toyotomi

as his Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal

married his granddaughter Princess Sen to Hideyori

to reconcile with the Osaka forces.

That summer, Nagayasu Okubo

visited Masamune at his Edo mansion.

Ieyasu had appointed Nagayasu as chief retainer

to his sixth son Tadateru.

Sir Nagayasu is well versed in the management

of gold and silver mines

and doubles as the Sado Magistrate.

Is the Sado gold mines still producing?

You can find gold and silver anywhere in Japan.

The foreigners call Japan the gold islands.

That's an overstatement.

Wherever I go, gold and silver speak to me.

Here I am, Sir Nagayasu, they say.

- Come dig me up quickly. - That was some boast.

It's unfortunate that there aren't many people

who know how to make good use of them.

Almost none.

There was the taiko.

No, he was bad at it.

He should have attacked Korea with gold and silver.

Using spears and swords was stupidity itself.

In that respect, you are an expert in using money.

When you were ordered to Odawara

you piled your gift of gold dust on a tray

and you theatrically scattered it around the floor.

It made me feel so good.

- And what brings you here? - Er?

He's asking why you're here.

Oh, excuse me.

By the shogun's orders, I, Nagayasu

am here to arrange Princess Iroha's marriage.

Iroha's marriage?

Yes, her marriage to my master Sir Tadateru.

Oh, I thought that had gone away.

Oh, my goodness.

The two families exchanged engagement presents

and pledged eternal friendship to each other 4 years ago.

You don't intend to break your promise to the shogun

and annul the engagement?

Of course not.

Depending on your reply, I am prepared to act.

Silence Nagayasu.

I've pledged eternal friendship to the Tokugawa.

Yet he speaks of engagement

when he has put shackles on me?

My lord.

Unless he permits me to return to Sendai

I won't let Iroha marry.

Don't concern yourself about that.

The shogun says that

you can go back to your fief whenever you please

and as often as you please.

Is that true?

Yes.

August 1603.

Masamune happily returned to Sendai Castle.

The castle was abuzz

at the long-awaited return of their master.

Sendai Castle

The completion ceremony and banquet

continued for several nights.

Like the Sendai pine prosperity of the country

will not be limited to a thousand generations

Masamune composed a poem

and changed the characters for Sendai.

I won't limit Date's prosperity to a thousand generations.

I've changed the characters so it will last forever.

Prosperity forever.

Our lord took the characters from a Chinese poem

about a hill overlooking the town.

I see. It's auspicious.

Do you know the poem?

What? I have an idea.

Sendai means the hill where the immortal wizard lives.

I see. That's great.

Congratulations.

- Congratulations. - Congratulations.

I congratulate you also

on the marriage of Princess Iroha.

Now that you'll be related to Sir Tokugawa,

the clan will be even more secure.

Although we'll be relatives I'm not his vassal.

I agree.

Listen, everyone.

The castle construction will continue.

We have to build a second and third citadel,

widen the moats, build a bridge over it and

build stone walls to create the best castle in Japan.

We'll build shrines and temples within the territory

and decorate them so that they equal

those of Fushimi and Momoyama.

We need to increase our rice, gold and horses.

Many markets will attract lots of people

and the town will bustle just like Kyoto, Osaka and Edo.

I'm going to build a grand metropolis here.