Rengoku ni Warau - Vol. 10 Ch. 55 - The Three Siblings from Purgatory, Reuniting in Oumi

[MangaDex]

 

[nico-chi]

thanks for the update. i just wanted to point out there's a speech bubble on page 19 (next to the list of names) that has the text doubled and shifted so it's hard to read

 

[Sarsak]

Hey look it's the traitor.


Anyways, Nobunaga was "the Fool of Owari", so you'd think more people would portray him as generally fun loving.

 

[Wolf04]

Thank you for this new chapter!

 

[miyako19]

@Sarsak He was called "the fool of Owari" not because he was fun loving but because he loved outrageous ideas and did outrageous things that normal people at that time didn't dare to do. While he was brilliant, he also was ruthless , not the kind of people you would call fun since his other nickname is "The Demon King of the Sixth Heaven". He burnt temples to the ground, turned the Shogun into a puppet (that Shogun feared him deeply), destroyed people that opposed him. There is a theory that because he was so cruel that his subordinate, Akechi Mitsuhide, betrayed him. He was the reason Mitsuhide's mother died.

 

[Sarsak]

@miyako19 He was called the fool of Owari because he generally disrespected tradition and propriety (often played with townsfolk dressed as a commoner, spoke slang, disrespected the court) ultimately culminating to when he disrespected his father's funeral, which was one of the reasons why him being lord of Owari was so contested. He eventually started acting his station and minding his image, but never actually respected tradition, which is why he was so willing to burn down temples when they went against him like the warrior monks of Mt. Hiei. I'm not going to say he wasn't ruthless, but he definitely drew a clear line between his retainers and his subjects (the people). He would be curt with his retainers and more open and warm to his subjects. AFAIK Mitsuhide's mother died because he used her as a hostage to have a castle open during a siege. I don't know if it was ever stated that Nobunaga forced him to.

His reluctance to follow traditions made people villainize him more than he should have been, especially in the Edo period while Tokugawa and his descendants were trying to secure their place.