Season 9, Episode 6: The Tiger of Solomon (Patreon)
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This week on MSB, Thom still can't stop talking about Anavel Gato and a 2014 interview with 0083 director Imanishi Takashi offers some unexpected insight into Gato's historical antecedents.
Show Notes - Uesugi Kenshin
- Special thanks to Zeonic|Scanlations (https://zeonic-republic.net/) for finding the magazine interview (Gundam Ace April 2014 Special Appendix) where Imanishi compares Gato to Kenshin.
- Japanese history texts referenced for this piece:
- Conrad Totman, A History of Japan (2nd edition). Blackwell Publishing (2013)
- The Cambridge History of Japan, ed. Kozo Yamamura, volume 3 (Medieval Japan). Cambridge UP (1990)
- The Cambridge History of Japan, ed. John Witney Hall, volume 4 (Early Modern Japan). Cambridge UP (1991)
- George Sansom, A History of Japan 1334-1615, Stanford UP (1961)
- Stephen Turnbull, Kawanakajima 1553-64: Samurai power struggle, Osprey (2003) - Translations of medieval Japanese documents referenced for the piece:
- Ota Gyuichi, The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga, trans. J.S.A. Elisonas and J.P. Lamers, Brill (2011).
- Rai San'yo, Nihon Gaishi (An Unofficial History of Japan), trans. Sato Hiroaki and included in Legends of the Samurai, Overlook (1995).
- Kosaka Danjo Masanobu and Obata Kanbe Kagenori, Koyo Gunkan (A Military History of the Great Men of Kai), trans. Sato Hiroaki and included in Legends of the Samurai, Overlook (1995). - Japanese Wikipedia pages for Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信) and Takeda Shingen (武田信玄).
- Samurai Archives wiki page on Uesugi Kenshin.
- Page on Uesugi Kenshin from the Joetsu Tourism and Convention Association (sponsors of the Kenshin Festival in Niigata), and a chronology of Kenshin's life, from the same source.
- Page on legends about Uesugi Kenshin from the Sengoku Information Center, formerly a Nobunaga's Ambition Online fansite.
- Samurai Archives wiki page on Hojo Soun, the mysterious wanderer who revived the Hojo name and fought against the Uesugi and Takeda.
- Webpage for the Uesugi Festival in Yonezawa.
- Video recording of the 2022 Uesugi reenactment festival in 2022.
- Map showing relative positions of the Uesugi, Hojo, and Takeda holdings in 1550.
- Do You Know Japan page on the Nanbokucho (Period of Northern and Southern Courts) and the dynastic disturbance briefly mentioned in the piece.
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