Original subtitles

The New York Commodities Exchange.

The world's greatest futures market for gold.

Every day, as much as 100 T of gold are bought and sold.

Corresponding to the foreign markets,

Japan also sets a dily value on gold...

which influence even the price of a necklace.

Gold is a valuable ornamental metal,

that also influences world economic trends.

Masamune used this gold with great skill.

With his brilliant use of gold,

Masamune extricated himself from dangerous situations.

In Japan, before the Meiji Era,

the 1600s was the golden age of gold and silver production.

The finances of the Tokugawa Shogunate...

depended on the mines of Sado.

Each year, 827 pounds of gold...

and 87,885 pounds of silver were sent from Sado to Edo.

In complete charge of these mines was Okubo Nagayasu.

Nagayasu was adviser to Tadateru...

and planned to embark on foreign trade.

Through marriage to Iroha,

Tadateru and Masamune were son- and father-in-law.

Through these two, Masamune dreamed of adventures abroad.

Dokuganryu Masamune (One-eyed Dragon Masamune)

Episode 40: A Seafaring Ship

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

Princess Iroha: YASUKO SAWAGUCHI

Shugenobu Suzuki: MITSURU HIRATA

Tsunamoto Moniwa: TAKEHIRO MURATA

Tadamune Date: HIRONOBU NOMURA

Hidemune Date: KOICHI TSUJINO Munenao Shiroishi: ZENPAKU KATO

Yoshichika Shirakawa: KIYOSHI KAWAKUBO Masataka Iwaji: JUNPEI KUSAMI

Tadateru Matsudaira: HIROYUKI SANADA

Hidetada Tokugawa: HIROSHI KATSUNO

Munenori Yagyu: RENJI ISHIBASHI

Tsunenaga Hasakura: MUNEYUKI SATO

Toshikatsu Doi: SEIJI ENDO Tadamoto Mizuno: TAKUZO KADONO

Nagayasu Okubo: RYUNOSUKE KANEDA

Ieyasu Tokugawa: MASAHIKO TSUGAWA

I want you to meet someone.

October 1611, Sendai Castle

I'm Luis Sotelo.

I'm glad to make your acquaintance.

Well? Doesn't he speak good Japanese?

I'm impressed.

Luis Sotelo comes from a good family in Spain.

He went to the Philippines to spread Christianity,

and taught in Wakayama and Kyoto before Edo

and is now abbot of a monastery.

No wonder.

Sotelo's sermon resonated with me.

The Buddha's teachings are blessed

but Christianity also has good points.

Sotelo's not just a priest.

He cured the illness of

the Date women in the Edo Mansion.

No, it wasn't I who cured them.

It was the God's love.

God's love?

Listen everyone.

I'm allowing Sotelo to proselytize in Sendai.

I'm thinking building several Christian churches too.

That's out of the question.

Why do you say that?

Buddhism is the ancestral religion of the land.

If Christianity spreads there will be trouble.

It is Buddhist monks that are causing trouble.

The different sects disagree on everything

straying from the path of righteousness.

If Christianity begins to spread,

the Buddhist monks would mend their ways.

Two birds with one stone.

God bless you.

At that time,

Ieyasu Tokugawa's sixth son Tadateru Matsudaira

was stationed at Fukushima Castle in Echigo.

First, we go to Macao from Japan.

Next we land in the Philippines

and after visiting the southern islands

we land in the island of Jakarta.

We'll eat a lot of Jakarta potatoes

and will ride into the Goa palace on an elephant.

Oh, I forgot.

I have to hunt alligators when I reach Thailand.

I hear it's hot in the southern islands.

Yes, it's so hot that sometimes flying birds

are burned and fall to the ground.

You're joking.

According to Nagayasu

there are a lot of beautiful women there too.

Oh, it may be amusing to bring back ten of them.

That's out of the question.

As the head of Japan's Christian family, you must be modest.

Are you jealous?

God teaches strict monogamy.

That's what I don't get.

That's why samurai wives and commoner's daughters

gladly become Christians.

Mortal men can't go on long sea voyages without women.

I will go with you.

What?

Rather than staying in desolate Echigo

and spend lonely days waiting for you

I want you to take me with you.

The ship will pitch and roll.

It may sink in a storm.

We'll die together.

We'll go hand in hand to heaven.

You are truly Masamune Date's daughter.

All right. I'll take you.

Will you really?

I swear on the cross.

I'll take you and show all the kings of the world

how beautiful you are.

I'm so happy.

Do you really trust the Christians?

I haven't decided.

I hear you've been baptized.

I told Sotelo no.

The head of the Date clan can't be baptized.

But instead, I promised I will recommend conversion

to as many vassals as I can.

I really don't get it.

Our lord wishes to trade with the Nanbans.

What?

Both the retired shogun and the shogun

favor the Red Hairs.

I believe that by helping the Nanbans

who are out of favor our lord intends to have them

ad as pilots for his trade ships.

Trade is fine but wouldn't that be construed as

a slap in the shogun's face?

As you say, that would be very tricky.

I was invited to Nagayasu Okubo's mansion this summer.

This is a Nanban jewelry box.

Please examine this.

This scroll is not made of paper.

It is made from tanned calf hide.

I doubted my eyes.

It was headed "Covenant with God"

and was signed by three unexpected people.

First, Minister of the Right Hideyori Toyotomi

next, Tadateru Matsudaira

and third, shogunate elder stateman Tadachika Okubo.

Let me assure you that this covenant is real.

For what purpose?

It's proof of their conversion to the Christian faith.

So you say these three are now believers?

That's right.

But it doesn't say so in the covenant.

It's not necessary.

The calf hide is proof of their conversion.

Is that true, Sotelo?

Yes, it is.

I want the fourth name on the covenant to be yours.

Don't underestimate me.

Excuse me?

I won't sign a covenant without a stated purpose.

I don't want to be accused of treason to the shogun.

- Please don't worry. - Then I ask you.

What are you going to use this for?

We'll deliver it to the Nanban king.

What?

He means King Philip III of Spain.

And we'll show it to the Pope in Rome.

This will allow us

safe passage on the seven seas without interference

under the protection of the Nanban navy.

Please sign the covenant.

If I refuse?

Then you will not be able to trade with the Nanbans.

Nagayasu.

Who is the originator of this covenant?

You don't have the clout to send a document

that major Japanese daimyos have signed.

Yet you can't ask the retired shogun or the shogun.

Your scheme isn't bad.

I can be your supporter.

That's would be wonderful.

But this isn't enough.

Gather more signatures of Christian lords.

Then I will sign my name at the end

as the king of Oshu to the covenant.

I can't believe Hideyori Toyotomi

and the shogun's younger brother signed the covenant.

Hideyori knows nothing.

The one who signed it

thinks the originator is a friend to the Toyotomi.

Then he was fooled.

Nagayasu Okubo is that rare criminal.

But he has a huge dream.

He wants his master Tadateru

to be the head of Japanese Christians

and he's hoping to rule not only Japan

but the world if circumstances allow.

I have to hand it to him.

It's Tsunamoto.

Sotelo was attacked by the monks.

What?

Kill every one of them!

Don't let a single man escape.

Tsunenaga Hasekura, Date hereditary vassal

who saved Sotelo from certain death

cracked down on those who obstructed

Sotelo's proselytizing on Masamune's orders.

Fukushima Castle, Echigo

Fool!

How can we cross the sea without building ships?

Contrary to my expectations,

the retired shogun is reluctant to give permission.

Go persuade him once again.

Could you wait until spring?

The bitter Echigo winter

will prevent us from starting to build a ship.

Stop making excuses.

If Echigo is too cold, go occupy Osaka Castle.

Oh my.

Listen, Nagayasu.

The Christians don't care about Hideyori.

They look to me as their leader. That's what you said.

Yes.

How can a leader not be able to build a ship

nor take Osaka Castle?

Not only will it undermine my authority,

I will lose respect.

Please leave everything up to me.

I promise that in the near future

you will become the third shogun.

If I'm shogun, you'll be the kanpaku?

Please keep your voice down.

A shogun's position is too insignificant.

I'm supposed to be the king of the world.

Have you forgotten?

Date Mansion, Edo

Doesn't he look like the next Date head?

At the end of the year,

Masamune's heir Toragikumaru came of age

and was renamed Tadamune Date

taking one character from shogun Hidetada's name.

Ship building has been banned along with castle building.

If you won't help our hopes will be dashed.

So, I will once again petition the retired shogun

and came to ask you

to please write a letter of support.

You have a bigger problem.

Confine yourself to your house in Hachijoji

and wait quietly for instructions.

Oh?

Are you denying knowledge

of the Daihachi Okamoto incident?

Who's Daihachi Okamoto?

He is the retired shogun's administrator.

Sir Honda's confidant.

Some days ago, he sweet-talked

the Christian lord Harunobu Arima

into giving him a huge bribe.

Thus Okamoto was burned at the stake.

And what connections do I have with him?

He mentioned you several times in his interrogation.

This is news to me.

According to Daihachi, since the world is at peace

brothels and prostitutes have sprouted proliferated.

But minor officials can't afford such pleasures.

However, those who live in Hachijoji

are spending lots of money availing themselves to those pleasures.

When they were questioned

they said they received money from you, Sir Okubo.

That's foolishness.

The shogunate has already begun cracking down.

You can no longer ignore the situation.

Oh, don't you worry about that.

I am the retired shogun's favorite.

If I go to Sunpu personally and explain

- it will go away. - Don't take it so lightly.

Your philandering is an open secret.

If you go to Sunpu, you'll be interrogated

and more will come out.

But since I am Sir Tadateru's messenger I can't stay.

Pretend you're ill.

Pretend?

Have a stroke in Hachijoji and take to your bed.

Oh dear.

But I have a huge ambition.

I'm staking my life on building a big ship

and sailing the world's seas.

I will take over your dream.

What?

You go behave yourself

and wait for things to blow over.

Spring, 1612.

Masamune had an audience with shogun Hidetada

and asked for permission to build seafaring ships.

Building of large ships are prohibited.

But the Nanban and Red Hair ships are

cruising the world's seas at will.

We will be left behind.

So say you build a ship. What will you use it for?

First, we will learn shipbuilding and seafaring skills.

Second, we'll explore the countries of the world.

Third, we'll have Sotelo deliver a letter to the pope.

Fourth, we will demand from King Philip of Spain

his true intentions regarding Japan.

Fifth, we will banish Vizcaino who is hostile to Sotelo

on this ship.

I see. Five birds with one stone.

Will you give me permission?

No way.

How disappointing.

This would be good for Japan.

I know how loyal you are.

Then please reconsider.

Go to Uraga.

Uraga?

The retired shogun is already building a ship there.

A huge ship.

Not only will it accomplish the five things you mentioned

it will promote trade with the Philippines and Mexico.

So that's six birds with one stone?

Sir Shogun. Sir Date.

I beseech you.

Please put me on that ship.

Please recommend me to the retired shogun.

September 1612.

The San Sebastian, a 150-ton ship

built by the retired shogun set sail from Uraga for Spain.

But it ran aground shortly after leaving port.

At Masamune's request

Sotelo and Tsunenaga Hasekura

had permission to be on that ship.

They survived the shipwreck and returned to Edo.

I have no excuses.

It's not your fault.

It's the shogunate's failure.

How slipshod...

to run aground soon after leaving port.

The sea is wide and big.

With our current skill

it would be difficult to build a ship that can reach Spain.

That's not true, The ship was too small.

It's harder to build a larger ship.

We won't give up.

We won't lose to the Nanbans and Red Hairs.

Yes, sir.

I'm going to build an incredibly large ship.

I'll get to Spain first

and look down on the shogunate's incompetence.

Father. I would like to go to Spain.

That's the spirit.

I too will go.

All right.

Good. Tsunenaga, don't be disheartened.

The following year, 1613,

the retired shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa

enjoyed falcon hunting in Katsushika.

No more ships.

But trade with the Nanbans and Red Hairs

will necessitate a large ship.

That's where we failed.

Masamune would like to build one as a Date project.

Oh? You'll build it in Sendai?

That's right.

If we build it under the shogunate's supervision,

even if we fail it won't affect your prestige.

Then do as you please.

I will build a ship equal to the Nanbans

that will gain your approval.

I hope you can build it in time.

Excuse me?

Yoshihisa Shimazu is dead,

so are Nagamasa Asano and Kiyomasa Kato.

I probably don't have long to live.

Don't say such things.

I believe you will have a long life.

I can tell by your healthy complexion.

Don't flatter me.

I'm not.

There are those who can't wait for me to die.

Not here.

What about you?

You're joking.

Please take care of yourself.

You still have big undertakings ahead, Father.

You're right. I have to get on with it.

Is this about settling Osaka?

That too. But that's not all.

We found a suspicious covenant

in Nagayasu Okubo's mansion.

It has Hideyori Toyotomi's name in the first position

next Tadateru Matsudaira

and Tadachika Okubo's and it's signed and sealed.

They are all devout Christians.

And the purpose of the covenant?

Oh are you saying you don't know?

I don't.

Oh, pardon me.

We have to make a thorough investigation about the aim.

We can't investigate Hideyori Toyotomi.

Nagayasu has gone mad and disappeared.

So that leaves Tadateru and Tadachika.

How bothersome.

The covenant was discovered?

Sir Tadateru will be admonished severely.

If they believe he was consorting with Osaka

he will be ordered to commit seppuku.

Oh no.

Sir Matsudaira is the retired shogun's son

and the shogun's brother.

That's why his crime is even more serious.

Iroha... what will become of her?

We have to save her.

No matter what.

My lord.

Damn that dishonorable Nagayasu Okubo!

Gold. Gold.

I smell gold.

Someone! Anyone here?

Nagayasu Okubo's sons fearing the shogunate's

confined their father in the clan's city warehouse.

Shogun Hidetada's chamberlains

played a major role in their attempt to solidify

the shogun's position and contain the Toyotomi clan.

I don't know anything about a mudslide.

I said I don't know. Don't touch the gold.

Who do you think I am?

Oh, caterpillar.

Caterpillar... caterpillar.

Caterpillar. Burn them.

Burn them.

Nanshige. Help me. Help me.

Caterpillar!

Caterpillar. Help me! Help me!

Masamune, understanding the gravity of the situation

sent Shigezane to Fukushima Castle in Echigo.

That was an oath to convert to Christianity.

I'm appalled I'm being suspected.

I agree.

But we think the shogunate sent spies to Echigo

to check on you.

That's even more unforgivable.

Why don't they just question Nagayasu Okubo?

Unfortunately, Sir Nagayasu died of illness in March.

What?

Nagayasu's dead?

He died in an appalling manner in his city warehouse's prison.

Who's responsible for this?

The details will come out eventually.

They're all trying to make it look like I committed treason.

If that's the case, I know what I have to do.

I'll raise an army with Kaga's Maeda clan

and march to Osaka Castle.

No!

Going to Osaka Castle is equivalent to suicide.

You don't think I can win?

That's not the point.

If it appears you were in collusion with Sir Hideyori

it's as though you're declaring yourself a traitor.

Fool!

I intend to attack Osaka Castle for Father

and chase Hideyori out.

Sir Hideyori's wife is the shogun's daughter

Princess Sen.

I know that.

If you make the retired shogun angry, it will cost you your life.

Fool!

Who do you think I am?

I apologize for my insolent behavior.

But I am here as my master Masamune's messenger.

My words are those of your father-in-law.

Masamune is a liar.

That's a strange thing to hear.

He said he'd put me on a big ship

sail the ocean and make me the king of the world.

I believe your dream will soon come true.

What?

My master has received permission

and is building a large ship in Date fief.

It's a huge ship 108 ft. long, 33 ft. wide

with three masts.

It that true, Shigezane?

We want you to sail in this ship.

I'm going to be on this?

Yes.

Did Masamune say so?

Yes. Until then he asks that

you keep the retired shogun and shogun happy,

and be good until the suspicion is lifted.

If I'm good, I can go to the Philippines?

And to Rome?

To Spain and England too.

Masamune is a great man.

He is a father-in-law I can trust.

Oh there's one more thing.

To dispel doubts and to put the shogunate at ease

he says it's vital that you give them a postage.

A hostage?

He thinks you should send your wife to Edo.

Iroha?

Yes.

I refuse.

It's a pleasure to see you again.

I am happy to see you looking so well.

I won't go to Edo.

You were listening?

A Christian couple can't live apart.

That depends on the situation.

No. God will not permit it.

It's just for a little while.

Are you trying to distance me from you?

Fool.

Please let me stay by your side.

There are disturbing rumors in Edo.

That you who are devoted to Christianity

have gone mad and killed your wife.

- No! - That's ridiculous.

It must-be a Red Hair ploy.

In order to dispel that rumor, you must go to Edo.

Go and show them you are alive and well.

It's for the future of the 720,000 Matsudaira

and 670,000 Date clans.

I beseech you.

Iroha.

I will go to Rome and have an audience with the Pope

and spread Christianity throughout the world.

God will forgive you

whether you are in Edo or in Echigo.

What God has joined together, will never be tom asunder.

Look.

Your father is building this ship in Date.

It's 108 ft. long, and...

Yes, 33 feet wide.

Thus Princess Iroha went to live in

the Matsudaira mansion in Edo.

In mid-May,

the Kanto region governor and Edo town magistrate

raided the Okubo mansion in Hachijoji

and conducted a search.

The excuse for the search

was his wrongdoings gold mine magistrate,

meaning, his concealment of gold dug from the mines.

- So they found out? - Yes.

Not only Sir Nagayasu's wife and children

but the main clerks were all arrested.

That's very serious.

And that's not all.

From the stone urn hidden under the floor

they found letters written by foreign kings.

What?

They are saying this makes clear the conspiracy...

to increase Christians and invite the Nanban army

to topple the shogunate

and make Sir Tadateru the king of Japan

and Nagayasu the kanpaku.

This is all Nagayasu Okubo

hatching a plot in his deranged mind.

Sir Tadateru would never betray you.

I want to believe that.

But considering his attitude and temperament

you can't say he really knew nothing.

As you say, Sir Tadateru has a violent temperament.

But he is also merciful

and loved by the people of Echigo.

And he has always been first in his loyalty to you

and takes his filial duty to the retired shogun seriously.

Then I ask you.

Why was his name on the covenant?

As I said before that was a sign of his conversion.

It doesn't make sense.

Don't be insolent.

Sir Tadateru has offered his wife as hostage.

That's the best proof of his innocence.

Masamune.

I heard that when you were young,

you killed you younger brother.

That's right.

Why did you do it?

To preserve the clan's existence

and to remove any problems in the future.

It must have been hard.

I don't need to tell you.

It's the same with me.

I don't want my blood brother to die.

However, if I save just Tadateru, it would look like

the law is playing favorites.

But your brother is innocent.

Even if he is innocent,

he can't avoid the crime of overlooking

the treachery of his vassal.

Then you are just as guilty.

- Sir Date, restrain yourself. - Quiet!

In the first place, who was it that

appointed the villain as Sir Tadateru's chief retainer?

A farewell visit?

Please always be well.

Where are you going?

- I'm going back to Echigo. - Don't talk nonsense.

Mother.

Sir Tadateru sent divorce papers from Echigo.

That's not possible.

I am Tadateru Matsudaira's wife for life.

Unless he is cleared of treason

he will have to commit seppuku.

That's why Sir Tadateru is divorcing you.

Divorce is forbidden for Christians.

Sir Tadateru is protecting you.

Understand and accept his consideration for you.

My lord doesn't like to be alone.

I'd like to be with him while he is alive.

That means you will die too.

I will gladly go to heaven.

Iroha.

I can't even kill myself if I'm in Edo.

Can't you understand how we feel?

Forgive your undutiful daughter.

I won't.

Good bye.

Wait. Iroha...

What's going on?

My lord.

It is good to see you.

Are you crying?

Iroha says she's going back to Echigo.

What?

I want to be with my lord.

When a husband has lost everything

and in the depth of depression

I believe it is the wife's duty to be by his side.

I understand how you feel. But be reasonable.

I've thought this through.

Why don't you write a letter to Sir Tadateru?

The time for that has past.

My lord.

I was born into the Date family

and grew up watching your example.

Father you never feared death

and faced adversity head on.

Each time, Mother would keep a sword close by

and prayed for your safety.

I am proud that I am your daughter

and look to Mother as the exemplary warrior's wife.

If you were in my position,

I think you would also go to Echigo.

If anything happened to Father,

I know you would commit suicide too.

Iroha.

We may never see each other again.

Father.

Safe travels.

Thank you.

June.

Princess Iroha returned to Echigo.

Don't cry, Mego.

I pity her so.

Iroha is not a child.

She's turned into a brave woman.

She's grown to be an admirable warrior's wife.

My lord...