Japan's Warring States Period, like China's Three Kingdoms Period, was an era of heroes, many of whom became gods and demons in later legends.

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infoIn the Buddhist legend of Oda Nobunaga, the demon king of the sixth day, there are clouds in the yoga scriptures, and there are six places in the heaven of desire: first, the four kings and the heavens.

This is where the Four Heavenly Kings live.

The four heavenly kings are Duowentian in the north, Guotian in the east, Guangmu Tiantian in the west, and Growth Heaven in the south.

The second, thirty-three days, also known as the Heavenly Heaven, is at the top of Mount Meru.

In the center is the city of the Emperor's residence, and there are eight days in each of the four directions, which are collectively called thirty-three days.

Third, the time and the day, that is, the night sky, this day lives in the air, and the lotus flower opens and closes and divides the day and night.

Fourth, contentment day, another name for Tushitian, Maitreya's abode.

Fifth, the people of this heaven can change the shape of the world at will.

Sixth, he is at ease in the sky.

This day is the lord of the realm of desire, and he takes pleasure in destroying the joy and happiness of others.

The sixth day is also the fourth demon of the four demons (the demon of trouble, the demon of yin, the demon of death, and the demon of freedom), and it is also the foundation of all demons, hindering the Buddha's enlightenment, so it is called the sixth demon king.

The Sixth Heavenly Demon King, referred to as the Heavenly Demon, is also known as Bosun and Moro, and the Sanskrit name is "Brahma-Bhavati"

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Buddhism is the head of the gods of the world, and likes to obstruct the cultivation of Chinese people in Buddhism.

In the middle of the 10th century, armed monks began to appear in Japan, and by the Warring States period, Buddhism had further developed into the third largest force in opposition to the public and samurai families, and some religious leaders such as Honganji Temple had become de facto daimyos.

For Oda Nobunaga, who has ambitions and wants to dominate the world by force, of course he can't tolerate the existence of this ** kingdom.

As a result, Nobunaga, who had already converted to the Daitokuji sect of Zen Buddhism (founded by Ikyu), began to fight against Buddhist forces.

He calls himself the "Sixth Heavenly Demon King"

and Christianity.

According to Buddhism, the whole world is divided into the realm of desire, the realm of color, and the realm of colorlessness, and the sixth day of his self-reformation is located at the top of the realm of desire.

It is said that if a person exceeds the sixth day, he will be able to free himself from the shackles of the desires of eating and drinking, and will be able to become a Buddha, but the demon king who lives here will hinder people from getting rid of the realm of desire.

When the Buddha Shakyamuni was about to become a Buddha, he was hindered by the four demons - the demon of afflictions, the demon of yin, the demon of death, and the demon of his self-incarnation.

This is the Sixth Heavenly Demon King. In the third year of Motokame (1572 A.D.), the daimyo Takeda Shingen Kamiraku, Takeda Shingen wrote a letter to Nobunaga, signed "Tendai Lord Shamon Shingen"

, a self-proclaimed Buddhist monk and protector of the Dharma.

Nobunaga smiled at this, and signed the letter "Sixth Day Demon King - Nobunaga"

, to entertain Takeda Shingen, and to express his uninhibited commitment to tradition and faith.

However, it is said that Nobunaga himself claimed to have converted to the Lotus sect of Japanese Buddhism (buried in the Daitokuji Temple of the Rinzai sect in Japan after his death), and also used the "Myoho-renge-kyo"

and other words as military flags.

It is also said that Oda Nobunaga was angry with the Sixth Heavenly Demon King because he planned to unify Japan (Tianxia Bubu) and was opposed to many Buddhist sects that hindered him, such as the Tendai sect Hieizan and the Ichijo sect.

It can also be used as a ridicule of oneself, watching others go farther and farther on the road to happiness, and he can only be alone, silently alone, he can only transform into a demon king, isolated from the world, as the demon king of the sixth day, and control the threshold of finally becoming a Buddha.

The incarnation of Bishamonten, the god of war, and the dragon of Echigo, Uesugi Kenshin Uesugi Kenshin (—), formerly known as Nagao Keihu (ながおかげとら), and the clan, inherited the Kanto management of "Uesugi"

Surname, after becoming a monk, the Dharma name is Qianxin.

Because of his high military command ability, he is known as the dragon of Echigo, and is generally known as the god of war.

The official position is from the four to the main major and from the four to the guard major general, and after his death, he will return to the second position.

In 1548 A.D., Kenshin became the governor of the Nagao family and unified Echigo with his outstanding ability.

After that, he worked hard to restore the old order of the Muromachi shogunate, and fought many battles with Takeda Shingen in the south and Hojo Shiyasu in the southeast, including the five Kawanakajima battles with Takeda Shingen, and the Kanto battle with Hojo Shiyasu - the Odawara offensive and defensive battles are famous examples in Japanese military history.

In 1577 AD, due to Oda Nobunaga's move to eliminate the Muromachi shogunate, Kenshin began an expedition against Oda Nobunaga and defeated the Oda army at the Tetori River (known as the Battle of the Tetori River).

However, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Kasugayama Castle the following year.

Although Kenshin was invincible, he was known as the "Dragon of Echigo"

, "Sengoku is the strongest"

, but he believed in Buddhism, which was once very contradictory.

In particular, the god of war who believes in Buddhism: Bishamentian, who claims to be the incarnation of Bishamentian, holds aloft "Bishamentian"

Battle flags for jihad.

Because of the advocating of "righteousness"

, its behavior was very special in the troubled times of the Warring States.

Among the many Warring States generals, Uesugi Kenshin is undoubtedly a very prominent one.

Humility has been loved for hundreds of years.

His charisma comes not only from his genius military command (which is fully affirmed in the game), but also from his personality (which is unfortunately not enough in the game and cannot be expressed).

His style of action was incompatible with the troubled times of the Warring States Period, and sometimes it was even slightly pedantic and was taken advantage of.

But humility always maintains his true colors and becomes a strong man in troubled times, which is by no means a "commendable" sentence

What can be covered.

Among the military generals of the Warring States period, there were many people who admired Qianxin.

In addition to Takeda Shingen, another old rival, Hojo Shiyasu, also respects Kenshin.

When Shiyasu gave his seventh son, Shishu (later Uesugi Keiho), to Kenshin as a hostage in the first year of Motokami (1,570 AD), he once said to his eldest son, Shimasa: "The generations of Harunobu and Nobunaga all say one thing and do another, and it is not enough to rely on it. However, His Royal Highness Huihu is different, and when he is invited by others, he will be loyal to people. When I die, there will be no one among the nations on whom you can rely. ”

It's a pity that the clan didn't say it later.

Ota Shimasa, who followed Kenshin until the end of the Kanto princes, commented after Kenshin's death: "Eight points of Kenshin's character are sages, and two points are evil." In addition to this, being brave and desireless, quiet and innocent, honest and selfless, sensitive, benevolent, and liking to hear people's advice are 'good'. Although there are slight flaws, it is not enough to hide its brilliance, but it is a rare good general. ”

Taro Sakamoto, an authority in the field of Japanese historiography, commented on Kenshin in his book "An Introduction to Japanese History": "Among the generals of various countries who are impermanent and fighting wildly, Uesugi Kenshin is known as a high-ranking person who respects gods and Buddhas, respects human ethics, is upright, and is studious, which makes people feel a breath of fresh air in the chaos." ”

It can be described as a very incisive summary.

His contemporary, the Kanto military commander Ota Shimasa, also had the following comments about Uesugi Kenshin: "Eight points of Kenshin's character are sages, and two points are evil. Unbridled anger and strange behavior are its 'evil'; In addition, it is good for him to be brave and desireless, quiet and innocent, honest and selfless, sensitive, benevolent, and happy to hear people's advice. Although there are slight flaws, it is not enough to hide its brilliance, but it is a rare good general. ”

But on the other hand, there are also those who have bad comments on Uesugi Kenshin, especially after Uesugi Kenshin and Hojo Shiyasu concluded the Sotsu Alliance, Satake Yoshishige, who felt betrayed, was quite dissatisfied with Uesugi Kenshin, and Uesugi Kenshin even helped the Oda family against the Satake family after the Sotsu Alliance, so after the Agatsu Alliance was broken, he insisted on not fighting with Uesugi Kenshin when he and Uesugi Kenshin helped Sekijuku Castle, which was attacked by the Hojo family.

According to the "Vieta Historical Materials"

According to Uesugi Kenshin, after the capture of Hitachi Oda Castle, the expedition cost a lot of money, and a large number of human hunts were carried out for human trafficking, and there was a permanent slave market in Naoetsu.

Japanese legend has it that Kenshin is the god of war, and he has never lost dozens of battles in his life.

During the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima in 1561, although his strength was only about half that of Takeda Shingen, legend has it that Kenshin single-handedly rushed into Takeda's main battle, slashed three times, and left.

In addition, in the same battle, he also used the technique of provocation to lure Takeda Shingen's eldest son, Yoshinobu, to attack rashly, causing the Takeda defense line to break, mobilizing Takeda Nobuyhiro and others to die for rescuing Yoshinobu, and causing the Takeda army to lose many generals such as Takeda Nobuyoshi (Shingen's brother) and Zhujiao Huding.

The Imagawa Yoshimoto Imagawa clan is a famous family of the Yoshiya family of the Kawachi Genji clan, Hachiman Taro, and is a fellow clan of the Ashikaga clan, the shogun of the Muromachi shogun, and has served as the guardian of Suruga for generations.

During the Imagawa Yoshitadawa clan, he attacked several times and eventually occupied Enoe Province.

Imagawa Yoshimoto was called "the first bow in Tokaido"

("Tokaido's first Yutori"

, not the most refined meaning of Tokaido archery.

In ancient Japanese, Yutori was often used as a term for daimyos.

The so-called Tokaido's first Yutori, that is, Imagawa Yoshimoto is the most powerful daimyo in Tokaido), is a hobby of Noh opera, waka and other things, both civil and military.

His father is a member of the Imagawa clan, his mother is Shou Guini, and the main room is Takeda Shintora Daughter Joein.

Born in the sixteenth year of Yongzheng (1519 AD), his young name was Fang Ju Pill, and he entered the Shande Temple on the outskirts of Junfu to practice since he was a child, and his law name was Meiyue Chengfang.

In the fifth year of Tenmon (1536 AD), the Imagawa family governor Hui died violently, and Yoshimoto returned to the throne, and then allied with Takeda and Hojo respectively, and quickly unified Suruga, Enoe, and Mikawa.

In the third year of Yonglu (1560 AD), on the way to Luo, he was attacked and killed in the narrow room.

Yiyuan is not only outstanding in martial arts, but also able to sing well, and can be called a Confucian general.

Since he was a child, he entered Shande Temple to worship Elder Long Chong (Taiyuan Xuezhai) of the Protectorate of the National Academy, and practiced Buddhism.

At the same time, he likes Chinese poetry and songs.

According to the "Continuation of the Book Series", it is "love to read Song Jinglian's Fuji poems"

, leaving many poems.

For example, in the second year of astronomy, the poems of the three people of Xuezhai were connected to the sea for Yingren and the temple: flowers to be in the spring and stay in the plum - Xibu (Zunhai); Friends three words of the year cold - Jiuying (Xuezhai); Buckle water tea decoction moon - Chengfang (Yiyuan).

After Yoshimoto Imagawa became the governor of the Imagawa family, he saw it as his mission to spread Kyoto culture to the Kanto region because of his fanatical worship of Kyoto culture.

Therefore, he deliberately imitated and followed the gorgeous princes and grandsons in Kyoto, wearing straight clothes, wearing black hats, painting black teeth, drawing cicada eyebrows, applying grease powder, holding poetry meetings, and even being a child.

Imagawa Yoshimoto deliberately built the Rinzai Temple (this Rinzai Temple is not the Rinzai Temple in Zhengding County, Hebei Province) just to take advantage of the geographical advantages of Junfu in the spread of Zen culture to satisfy his own penchant for children.

It is also because Imagawa Yoshimoto's behavior of using Kyoto culture as a package to act as a child affected the Suruga people, causing the Suruga people to generally send boys who are still good-looking to Rinzai Temple to receive the ** and dress of the temple monks, in order to make it possible for a sparrow to become a phoenix.

From the 10th year of the Astronomical Era (1541 AD), the military service of the retainers was increased in Suruga, Enoe, and Mikawa, and the annual tribute was included in the responsibility.

Ejiri (Shimizu Port) was a major transportation hub connecting Tokoku to Kyoto and Namba, and Yoshimoto strengthened security in the port and protected the hotels and merchants along the coast.

Yoshimoto also developed the salt industry in the coastal zone and the gold mines in Abe's interior.

For a time, due to Yoshimoto's fame and superior policies, the town of Suruga was very prosperous.

In the 21st year of Astronomy (1,552 A.D.), Yoshimoto promulgated the Imagawa Kana Catalogue and Supplements, which were of great significance to the entire feudal society in the future, and emphasized a series of feudal systems, such as the relationship between the rulers and the rulers, and the establishment of a transportation system, which emphasized the relationship between the master and the slave.

The Imagawa Kana Catalogue has since enshrined 54 articles, which is the earliest division of the Eastern Daimyo and the most complete of the Warring States Laws.

It is believed that the Tokugawa shogunate followed the century-old "Ieyasu Hyakun" and also referred to this "Imagawa Kana Catalogue" in part in the formulation.

Yiyuan's contribution is enormous.

Due to the accumulation of generations of the Imagawa clan and the careful management of Yoshimoto, the strength of the Imagawa clan at that time was 1 million koku, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there were 1.5 million koku, and the number of soldiers who could be mobilized for battle could reach nearly 60,000.

Compared to the Oda family in Owari at that time, they could only barely mobilize nearly 10,000 people.

Before succeeding to the throne, the Imagawa clan was in a fierce battle with Kai Takeda, and the Hojo clan was also eyeing him.

After Imagawa Yoshimoto came to power, he continued to compete for power with the Hojo family and the Oda family, and his power continued to expand and began to form an alliance with the Takeda family.

From the fifth year of Astronomy, Kai had failed to harvest for five consecutive years, and many people died of starvation, but Takeda Nobutora did not know how to sympathize with the people's feelings, causing the people's resentment to boil, hoping to overthrow Nobuyo's rule.

On June 14, 1541 A.D., Shintora set out for a tour of Sunfu and visited his daughter and nephew Goro (Shizhen).

With the support of his younger brother Nobu Shigeru and his retainer Itagaki Nobukata, Harunobu exiled Nobu Tiger and succeeded him as the head of the family.

Harunobu sent a letter to Yoshimoto, agreeing that Yoshimoto would leave Shinhu in Sunfu, and the living expenses would be borne by Takeda.

Through this incident, the alliance between Imagawa and Takeda was strengthened.

In 1554, an alliance was formed between the Imagawa family, the Takeda family, and the Hojo family, and it is known as the Zentokuji Triple Alliance.

And in the sixth year of Tenten, he married the daughter of Takeda Nobuta (Harunobu's sister, Joein, and later the biological mother of Shijin), Imagawa Yoshimoto's daughter Suruga Hime married Takeda Harunobu's eldest son Takeda Yoshinobu as his wife, and Hayakawaden, the daughter of Hojo Shiyasu, married Imagawa Shima, the son of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and allied with Yamauchi Uesugi Kenmasa, the Kanto commander, so that Hojo retreated at the border of Suruga, and Yoshimoto successfully dominated the two counties of Jundong and Fuji.

The Matsudaira family belonged to the Imagawa family, and Mikawa realized the domination of Imagawa and eventually expanded to the territory of Suruga, Enoe, and Mikawa, becoming a daimyo in the East China Sea.