Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan - Ch. 106 - High Spirits

[mbos14]

As a Dutch person i have come to do my duty.
Gekoloniseerd.🥥

 

[Umesan]

That's why Mori Nagayoshi, the Devil Katsuzou, was feared on the battlefield.

 

[Draugadrottinn]

So what's the Yagyu style that Shizuko wanted him to learn?

The style of the Yagyu school of swordsmanship, founded a few years before Shizuko appeared in the Sengoku era. I guess a few must have heard about the famous swordsman Yagyu Jubei (not yet born in the time of the manga).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagyū_Shinkage-ryū

 

[Iratana]

Shizuko... you're some years late to be worrying about Katsuzo's ruthless violence... The guy was burning down villages years before the Oda clan defeated the Takeda...

 

[Wildtale]

So... I understand that the real focus of this chapter is Shizuko being your average workaholic, the continuing insanity that is breaking the technology timeline, and Katsuzo's generous use of violence...

HOWEVER:

Sengoku Komachi Kurōtan (戦国小町苦労譚; "A Sengoku Period Belle's Labor Story") is a Japanese light novel series written by Kyōchikutō and illustrated by Geko Hirasawa. It began serialization on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō in January 2013. It was later acquired by Earth Star Entertainment who began publishing it under their Earth Star Novel imprint in January 2016. A manga adaptation illustrated by Hajime Sawada, titled Sengoku Komachi Kurōtan: Nōkō Giga, began serialization on Earth Star Entertainment's Comic Earth Star manga website in May 2017.
- Wikipedia

Is the novelist and/or mangaka on the pulse of agricultural technology or what?!

 

[Xenonaru]

So what's the Yagyu style that Shizuko wanted him to learn?

I looked it up and it's a style that's all about taking out your opponent in the least bloody way possible

 

[Kanade0021]

Thanks for the translation!

 

[aramil31]

What are they gonna do after conquering Japan? Jump start Imperial Japan?

Probably not the empire proper, but certainly aiming to have that level of military/industrial power and local influence. With the ahistorical innovations Shizuko's bringing in, it's entirely possible that the timeframe when the European empires take an interest in Asia gets pulled forward as well.

The trick is going to be getting Japan's population to move away from being a majority of uneducated subsistence farmers, as that's the biggest roadblock to getting exponential growth in industry, military, economy, etc. In this setting, assuming Nobunaga does unify Japan under his sole rule, the advantage is going to be that he has absolute authority to command the people to implement Shizuko's creations and strategies, rather than having to wait for the natural pace of innovation.

Will certainly help for things like spreading widespread acceptance of concepts like "germs exist and cause illness, not evil spirits".

 

[saredesu]

Pretty sure I learned about lightning binds atmospheric nitrogen much earlier, it's not in 2017. Unless it's about linking atmospheric nitrogen with the increase of rice yield, then it makes sense why author included it in the explanation. Science is just annoying like that, you can't just make a new finding without reciting to a previous one.

Or maybe it's just the usual Japanese nationalism propaganda.

Also at this point Katsuzou beating up people is just him asking for mommy Shizuko praise. He's plenty strong by now. 😂

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Rather than praise, dude gonna get his head chopped off due to these events keep on piling up later on if hes still retarded like this.

 

[singsterjr]

Katsuzo is Katsuzo

 

[fight2live]

TIL that "inazuma" means "rice wife"

 

[xpsox]

So what's the Yagyu style that Shizuko wanted him to learn?

Probably along the lines of self control, learning sword technique is not only about fighting but also philosophy, strategy and manners. He’s a loose cannon right now armed with pre modern technology by learning some mannerisms he might gets better at self restraint.

 

[maddery]

They have Western furnitures and tea set during that period in Japan?

Shizuko really need to discipline Katsuzou before it's too late.

 

[maddery]

So... I understand that the real focus of this chapter is Shizuko being your average workaholic, the continuing insanity that is breaking the technology timeline, and Katsuzo's generous use of violence...

HOWEVER:

Is the novelist and/or mangaka on the pulse of agricultural technology or what?!

Just because the manga started in 2017 doesn't mean the author couldn't include that. The chapter part of the novel could have written after the research result was announced.

 

[PanzerIVF]

My man just WHOOP SOME A$$ of someone who bad mouth Shizuko. Now THAT a total loyalty right there!

 

[RandomPlayers]

"Average" high school girl at it again, now with microscopes 🙄
Most actual average high schoolers (that's not in engineering and/or a nerd) would remember ZERO of the blueprints for these inventions.

Sorry if I'm complaining (again) this late, but this one thing takes me out of the story since it's so easy to fix: just create other characters that could've made these inventions. Even super genius Senku needed other talented people to create most of this stuff that he thinks up/remembers.

Technically, she's already doing this and has these people in her employ by now this late in the story, but the crossbow thing back when she only still has a village still bothers me. Some random village blacksmith would not know how to make a crossbow.

As I understood it at least, she didn't actually design it. She just had a idea of what was needed and at this point the craftsmen trust her enough that they investigated it properly and figured it out.

It's a bit like how I don't know the physics needed to make a plane, but I have a general idea of the shape and materials of the Wright Brothers plane and could help nudge a expert in the right direction as long as they trust me when I say "This can be made to work."

 

[Sonny6155]

Wait, 2017? What did they prove, specifically? Nitrogen fixation by lightning is already well taught, even if not heavily emphasized. I wasn't able to find a corresponding research paper or published article on it either (though I didn't exactly look that hard...).

 

[Pyras]

I remember I read in books as early as 2005 or so about farmlands hit by lightning strike would yield great harvest. Similar to after volcano and also after wildfire. Lots of good stuff plants want in the soil after those events.

 

[m6514309]

"Average" high school girl at it again, now with microscopes 🙄
Most actual average high schoolers (that's not in engineering and/or a nerd) would remember ZERO of the blueprints for these inventions.

Sorry if I'm complaining (again) this late, but this one thing takes me out of the story since it's so easy to fix: just create other characters that could've made these inventions. Even super genius Senku needed other talented people to create most of this stuff that he thinks up/remembers.

Technically, she's already doing this and has these people in her employ by now this late in the story, but the crossbow thing back when she only still has a village still bothers me. Some random village blacksmith would not know how to make a crossbow.

It hasn't come up since the early chapters, but she has an encyclopedia loaded on her smartphone and a crank charger. She's not remembering every innovation.