Hitayoshi From Samuel Halley

Hitaoshi also enjoyed theatre, and he commissioned plays to be written about his victories and achievements. In a display of mind boggling narcisism, the almost 60 year old hitaoshi chose to play himself in these compositions. Around the same time that cato and the other samuray commanders are butchering and raping their way through the doomed city of chinju, hitayoshi is weeping with joy at peach mountain. His concubine, yodo gimi, had miraculously become pregnant again, and a boy was soon born. After his first son, the two year old suramasu, had died,. Hira yoshi named his nephew as the heir to