Author: japanup_akane

The incident created quite a stir at a time when samurai virtues had seemingly been forgotten during the long peaceful years of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

You can now better imagine the horsemen and archers in their period costumes, on their beautiful and colorful steeds dating back to the Heian period.

An angry Oda Nobunaga surrounded Matsunaga in Shigisan Castle and demanded his head. A tea enthusiast, he also sought a very valuable tea item that was in Matsunaga’s possession, the Hiragumo.