Volume 1 – Chapter 2

The Battle of Akatsuka!

On the seventeenth day of the fourth month of Tenbun 21 (1552), my older brother Nobunaga, furious at the father-and-son duo of Yamaguchi Noritsugu and Noriyoshi, marched from Nagoya Castle to the front line with his troops.

In my opinion, the one who resembles our father, Nobuhide, the most is brother Nobunaga.

He acts the moment an idea strikes him.

It seems that in his younger days, Father used to drag along Sado-no-Kami (Hayashi Hidesada), who was the same age as him, to get up to all sorts of mischief without restraint.

In particular, whenever they heard word of a beautiful woman, the two of them would go out to see her for themselves.

Nobunaga, too, would take along the second and third sons of retainers—men who stood no chance of inheriting the family headship—to engage in sumo wrestling or play by the river, stealing melons to fill their