TOKUGAWA IEYASU
Episode 22: Abstract Beauty
Hamamatsu Castle
Reporting!
Lady Tsukiyama's temporary dwelling has been completed.
It's a little small, but is adequate as her dwelling.
In deference toward Lord Nobunaga, we must treat her as a criminal.
We can't do any more for her.
I see...
Send a messenger to Okazaki
to escort Lady Tsukiyama here.
She's an important criminal.
Make sure she's safe.
Ieaysu claimed that Sena had gone mad
and set up a residence for her in Hamamatsu.
He intended to let her live.
What? Lady Tsukiyama's messenger left?
That woman deserves to die!
She's our lord's wife. Watch your words.
What wife! She betrayed him and put us in danger!
That's why she should kill herself.
Right. Then, Lord Nobuyasu may be spared.
When our lord executed Oga Yashiro
he should've killed his wife, too!
What good would saying that do?
If I were the messenger, I'd risk my life and kill her off!
That's the only way to save our lord.
Okazaki Castle Lady Tsukiyama's Mansion
Reporting!
What is it?
Lord Nonaka Shigemasa and Ishikawa Tarozaemon are here.
I was waiting for them. Send them in.
We have come as our lord's messengers today.
Though we should sit at the seat of honor,
we'll talk from here.
I am Ieyasu's wife. I'll take the seat of honor.
Tell me what Lord Ieaysu said.
He has built a residence in Hamamatsu for you.
He instructs you to move.
Hamamatsu?
And? When are you prepared to move?
We'll depart at dawn and arrive in Hamamatsu in 3 days.
Alright. Do as you please.
My lady? Our young lord has not received his sentence yet.
He is still confined at Futamata castle.
That's good news.
Good news?
My lady! Our young lord is alive at Futamata!
That's why it's good news.
I can't believe those are a mother's words.
Is it good news to hear that he's living each day
not knowing when the death sentence would be given?
It is good news.
My lady!
I am Ieyasu's wife.
If he enjoys tormenting his son,
as his wife, it's my duty to enjoy it with him.
Isn't it?
We have a favor to ask on that matter.
What could the request to a powerless woman be?
Please submit a written plea for our young lord's life
and take your own life!
I see.
Is this Lord Ieyasu's order?
Or it this your idea?
This is our idea.
If it's Lord Ieyasu's order, I'd gladly be punished.
I can't obey what my retainers say.
Lady! Isn't the young lord dear to you?
Then go and beg Lord Ieyasu to order me to die!
If it's our lord's order, would you die?
I would.
I'll show the future generations
what a coward Major General Tokugawa Lord Ieyasu truly was
to have killed his wife and son to please Lord Nobunaga!
I'll ask you again.
Please reconsider for the sake of our young lord!
Don't repeat yourself!
Nothing will make me change my mind!
You'd hate our lord even after you lose your son?
Label me a she-devil or a demon! Abandon my corpse to rot!
I will do as I please until I die.
We shall come to get you tomorrow at dawn.
My lord... following your order, I won't kill myself.
After all this time, we finally understand each other...
Because she was the niece of the late Imagawa general,
if she look her life, it would've meant that
she and Ieyasu were admitting Nobunaga's superiority.
Good. Bring this and some of the other utensils
to Lady Tsukiyama's mansion tomorrow.
Yes, I will.
Are you awake?
How do you feel?
Oai...
It's time to take your herbs.
What were you doing?
What about Lady Tsukiyama?
There may be many inconveniences in her new residence.
I prepared some things to comfort her.
I see...
Please forgive me for being so impertinent.
Sorry to trouble you.
My lord...
Ieyasu pitied Sena.
She was the niece of Imagawa Yoshimoto when she married him.
She was starved for love,
yet she herself widened the gap between husband and wife.
The age of the wars had caused this woman
to turn her dissatisfaction into a dreadful aberrance...
Forgive me, Lord Nobuyasu.
I don't think I'll ever see you again in this life.
Futamata Castle
Sena, who was held captive,
came to Tomizuka, southwest of Hamamatsu on the 3rd day.
My lady, Hamamatsu is but a stone's throw away.
Then, why must we stop at such a lonely place?
I'm afraid I'd like to finish you off.
Finish me?
You're going to kill me here?
For the sake of our young lord and our clan...
I beg you to kill yourself.
My Lady! I will not count your misdeeds.
I merely sympathize with you for your pitiful fate.
Please, take you your own life and let me finish you.
You may not.
For our clan!
I'm not saying I won't kill myself.
Then, please...
I will kill myself in front of Lord Ieyasu, not here!
No! We'd like you to die here.
No!
Can't you understand a woman's feelings?
I do, therefore, I can't take you to our lord.
Do you intend to bring more grief to our clan?
I'll finish you off.
No!
I won't die!
I'll finish you...
How dare you...!
For as long as the Tokugawa clan exists,
I shall bear a grudge against it...
Calm down, my lady.
Hurry up! I don't want the footsoldiers to see this!
I won't submit to the Oda clan!
My soul will roan this world and curse you!
Be strong, Shigemasa.
We put an end to her suffering.
Thank you. Did you place Lady Tsukiyama in her residence?
What is it?
I heard you left Okazaki 3 days ago...
I report!
Today, at around noon at the valley by Tomizaka,
the lady killed herself to request that you spare her son.
She killed herself?!
It was a peaceful death,
but because of the heat, we couldn't keep her corpse.
We laid her to rest at Sairazenin temple,
and received a posthumous Buddhist name for her.
I don't know how to apologize for the fact that
we didn't fulfil our duty to bring her here safely...
I am ready to be punished accordingly.
I see...
Ieyasu sensed that they had killed Sena.
Thank you.
Oai, let Shigemasa and Taroza rest. Serve them some rice.
Yes.
Let me show you in.
My lord?
My lord!
Lord Nonaka, please...
Sena, I'm mortified...
This was an unexpected mistake.
Calm your soul, and depart for the pure land...
Another messenger from Nobunaga arrived
when Ieyasu was beginning to recover.
Lord Nobunaga is pressuring us again, Hanzo.
Go to Futamata and finish Nobuyasu off.
Since this was something Lord Nobunaga initiated
it seems he's concerned about the outcome.
Please assign that to...
Hanzo!
I assigned Shibukawa Shiroemon to this task.
But he said he has no sword to use against his lord,
and disappeared last night.
That's...
Go to Futamata, discuss the matter with Tadayo,
and carry out this task well.
I'm afraid, but...
I'll send Anagata Yanashiro with you as the investigator.
Please, my lord, I beg you to assign someone else!
Are you that reluctant to take on this task?
Forgive me, my lord.
I won't. Do you think I'm happy to assign this task?
Do you think I'd ask just anyone to finish my son off?
My lord...
Futamata Castle
50 days had gone by since Nobuyasu was expelled from his castle.
It was deep autumn, the leaves were turning red,
signalling the advent of frost.
It's getting dark. Shall I increase the lights?
That's not necessary. Tonight's the 14th.
The noon is out. Can you open the sliding door?
Nobuyasu was forbidden to see anyone except his page.
I can smell the devilwood
Before this happened, I didn't notice the flowers nor the moon
but we can find pleasure in unexpected things.
My lord...
What is it?
I can't keep it a secret any longer.
Lady Tsukiyama passed away last 29th.
What? Mother?
Yes.
I couldn't muster up enough courage to tell you...
I see.
Where was she killed?
At Okazaki?
She wasn't killed.
She took her own life to request that you be spared.
The moon is out.
Come and look.
After having lived here like this, I feel I finally understand
the cause of my parent's sad disagreements...
My father, like a true warrior in this age of wars, is cautious and firm...
My mother was too conscious of her status and could not bend her ways.
I can't say who was right.
I just sympathize with you...
My father was so heartbroken he fell ill.
Who told you?
A man comes to visit my every so often.
He wants me to escape.
My father wants me to, he says.
I'm an ungrateful son who made his mother die
and caused so much grief to his father.
He said it's useless to die,
and to be a good son, I should live and prepare for the future.
But I disagree.
Why?
If I escape, I'll run right into the Takeda enemy territory.
I'd have to see Katsuyori.
Then, my people may feel that
my father-in-law's suspicions were true.
Reporting!
Hattori Hanzo and Amagata Yamashiro are here.
I see, thank you. Come in.
I'm Hattori Hanzo.
I'm Amagata Yamashiro here upon my lord's orders.
I heard my father is ill. How is he?
He is finally able to set out of bed.
We have come today to...
Don't rush, Hanzo. I have some questions.
Is it true that my mother took her life on the 29th?
That's exactly right.
Then I'll commit seppuku, so can you finish me off?
How about it, Hanzo?
But...
But what?
I am mortified that things have come to this.
I have decided. Get ready to behead me.
And Hanzo...
Yes?
Tell my father that I swear to the Heavens that I am not guilty.
I'm sure my father knows that I am innocent.
Never mind, just tell him I died bravely.
Please wait, my young lord.
I recalled something important your father said.
My father?
When he assigned this task to me,
he talked of Shibukawa Shiroza
who escaped before he had to turn his sword on his master.
He must've meant that I should not turn my sword on you,
and that you should escape or become a monk.
Control yourself, Hanzo!
It would be terrible if I mistook his instructions.
I believe that's what we should be asking you to do.
No!
Are you ready?
Lord Okubo!
I lived for 21 years. Thanks for everything, Tadayo. Farewell.
My young lord!
I, Hattori Hanzo will finish you off as ordered!
Damn! How can you let this be!
Who finished him? Why didn't you talk him out of it?
Forgive me. Id didn't want him to suffer, and I beheaded him.
No! It was I. Lord Hattori was crying, so I did it.
Ohatsu...!
So, you followed him in death...
Hamamatsu Castle
My lord? Hattori Hanzo has returned.
Send him in.
Well done, Hanzo.
Please order me to commit seppuku.
What're you saying?
I believe I mistook your instructions.
I can't bear it unless you order me to die!
Control yourself, Hanzo!
Just answer my questions.
What did Nobuyasu do when you arrived?
He has already decided to commit seppuku.
We couldn't make him reconsider.
I see.
Yes.
According to Lord Tadachika,
he said that if he should fall into enemy hands,
he can't prove his innocence to the future generations.
...His innocence... to future generations...
Just then, when we were unprepared, he stabbed himself.
I didn't want to prolong his suffering, so I beheaded him.
Whatever the reason may be,
I used my word on my lord's son... please let me die!
No!
After paying his respects to the corpse,
Lord Amagata renounced the world to live as a hermit.
I cannot save my honor!
No!
My lord!
Listen!
Losing Nobuyasu was painful enough for me...
now I have lost Amagata, and how can I bear to lose you?
Calm down! Don't repeat yourself!
My lord...
Take Hanzo away! He has gone wild!
You're cruel
to make me live after committing a heinous crime!
Is this... my lord?
His corpse has been buried by Futamata castle.
Someone who was there secretly to pay respects,
sent this to you, my lady.
Princess!
Lady Tsukiyama was dead. Nobuyasu was dead.
The mementos of the years that he spent at Sumpu, were gone.
Nobuyasu, I must get over this.
That's the only way I can make sense out of your death...
Otherwise, I'd be a coward who stands in Nobunaga's shadow,
whose wife and son were killed by him...
Nobuyasu!
Your death showed me what it was I lacked.
Nobuyasu!
Nobuyasu.
Your father will not waste your death.
Forgive me...
Nobuyasu!
In this night, Ieyasu fell to ground and cried.