How Beautiful Are You?
ODA ARMY
Mitsuhide is 90% Beautiful
"This seems inaccurate... none surpass Nobunaga-sama."
Katsuie is 41% Beautiful
"Eh? Only 41? Are you sure?"
Nobunaga is 11% Beautiful
"I do not care what this... shindan... thinks of me. I am the most powerful warlord in Shinga, my beauty is irrelevant."
Nagahide is 41% Beautiful
"I'm offended that I rank the same as Katsuie."
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Commission for @yugenronin and @melatoninburst~! ^^
Shibata Katsuie and OC Shanice
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Some years ago, I researched the story claiming that “before marrying Nagamasa, Oichi was already married to Shibata Katsuie”. At that time I was only able to find forum discussions on Samurai Archives. However, I’ve since located the original Papinot book referenced in the discussion (very helpfully made available by Archive.org). In the spirit of “not fully trusting a claim until I see for myself”, I went and did just so.
Here’s the page from the book.
The other books referenced in the forum were Stephen Turnbull books, but Turnbull was just quoting from Papinot, so I don’t think I need to add that here.
Sadly, this book also does not have a bibliography of sources. Just a lot of appendixes that does not say where are these stories coming from. Maybe that’s just how it is with old books from the early 1900s, since James Murdoch’s books was the same. Only lots of claims and narrations, and we don’t know what original Japanese were they sourced from.
I’ve not yet seen this narrative presented by Japanese texts yet, though I imagine it’s just because I don’t really have much access to very old texts or materials. I only have ever seen this pre-Azai Oichi-Katsuie relationship in dramas and novels, and that could darn well be just writers dreaming things up on their own.
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SHIBATA oh my god
WITH THE BEST FRIENDS OH MY GOD
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View of the Headquarters at the Battle of Shizugatake in the Taiheiki, 1867
by Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892)
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"KitKat, Mitsuhide, I care about you, so happy Valentines. I didn't have much I could do without immediately alerting you both but," she pulls out two long letters. They both say how she appreciates them and two coupons each for a free favor. It says that they can even request her to 'shut the fuck up' once! How generous. "Love you two platonically. I'd let you guys sell my spine. It probably wouldn't go for much though...Anyway. have a good day, my dearly broloveds...Get it?" She's not funny.
"I love you too Shanice! If anyone ever hurts you, I will never forgive them!"
She was, after all, his broloved best friend. He would have been laughing up a storm if not for the fact he was so incredibly touched by her gesture of affection that his emotions were bursting forth like a geyser.
"You're the best, Shanice, I promise I won't sell your spine!"
The fact Katsuie promised such a thing while casually wiping tears from his eyes was enough to get Nagahide's attention, the sleepy vampire lifting his head to observe what was going on. Typically, Mitsuhide would have had something to say about Katsuie's emotional outburst or at least been sighing heavily like an old man by now. It left Nagahide a little bit curious as to what Mitsuhide was thinking.
Ah. It appeared Akechi Mitsuhide could not take his eyes off of what Shanice gave him. He froze in place, stiff as a statue, his mind far far away from where they stood. It made sense. If Nagahide recalled correctly, Shanice was probably the only person to ever give Mitsuhide a gift.
Rolling his eyes, Nagahide got up and walked past the trio, casually smacking Mitsuhide on the shoulder as he did in hopes it would snap him out of his stupor. It worked. Jostled by the force of Nagahide's friendly 'pat', Mitsuhide nearly stumbled into the closest wall before he steadied himself and turned to look at Shanice.
"... Thank you. I am... very lucky to have a friend like you, Shanice."
His voice may have been quiet, he may have struggled to find those words, but he meant every one of them. This kindness would not be something he ever forgot.
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