In turbulent times, one couldn’t tell what would happen even in the immediate future. The leader of a domain in such a period had only two roads open to him: to become a man like Oda Nobunaga, who, not caring if his body became covered with wounds, would brandish his sword and, never looking back, take the lead in creating a new state of affairs; or, contrariwise, to become a man who allows himself to drift with the current. However, if one were the leader of a domain and not simply an ordinary gentleman living in retirement, then to look askance at the current and go against it, and to cling
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