Beauties appear frequently during the Three Kingdoms period, with different styles, Xiao Qiao 's gentleness, Sun Shangxiang's coolness, Diao Chan's beauty, Zhen Ji's melancholy... However, all the stories related to them are to contrast the heroic and tenderness of men. But no one can truly live his own wonderful life! During the Warring States Period in Japan, there was such a beauty who had a noble birth like Sun Shangxiang and a beautiful appearance like Diao Chan. She was as infatuated as Xiao Qiao, and died in the best age like Zhen Ji.
Her name is Oda City, and she is called "The Sixth Day Demon King" Oda Nobunaga , Asai Nagamasa and Shibata Katsuya , Toyotomi Hideyoshi obsessed with her whole life but never gets it.
Troubled times, can’t tolerate long-lasting love
Oda City has been dazzling since childhood, and has become more and more charming after adulthood. It is truly a beautiful country. With the advent of the Oda Nobunaga era, Ashi not only has the beauty that men covet, but also represents the exchange and output of power and interests. Marrying Ashi became the highest goal of the military generals at that time, including Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Asai Nagamasa. That year, Kitaoe's lord Nagamasa Asai was 18 years old, and Ashi was just 16 years old. In order to better promote the political ideal of "Wu Bu in the World", Oda Nobunaga married his sister to Asai Nagamasa.
Ashi is a move in the political marriage of his elder brothers. In the war-torn era in history, women of noble births often cannot escape this fate and always end up miserably. Fortunately, Asai Nagamasa is not a playboy. He looks handsome and meticulous. What Ashi didn't expect was that Asai Nagamasa had long been admiring her. Asai Nagamasa did not want Ashi to feel wronged in this political marriage. He ignored the taboo that the unmarried couple could not meet before they were newlywed, and traveled all the way to meet Ashi, led her to Lake Biwa and confessed to her affectionately.
No matter how many ups and downs in the future, in Ashi's opinion, he is very lucky to marry Asai Nagamasa. After Asai Nagamasa married Ashi, he rebuilt Oguchi Castle for her. People affectionately called Ashi Madam Oguchi, and everyone was full of blessings for the union of this couple.
Asai Nagamasa was the only wife of Ashi and did not marry any other woman. Ashi gave birth to two sons and three daughters for Ashi Nagamasa. This year, Oda Nobunaga finally joined forces with Tokugawa Ieyasu to attack the Asakura family. The Asakura family is adjacent to the E Kingdom, and the Asakura family once had kindness to Asai Nagamasa. In such an unfavorable situation, Asai Nagamasa still decided to help the Asakura family and start a war with Oda Nobunaga.
Asai Nagamasa is a rare good man in troubled times. Although Oe Country is just a weak country, Asai Nagamasa is a good talent in governing the world and governing the place in an orderly manner. But he is also a naive and loyal man. In this era of intrigue and ignorance, he turned against his family because of the word "happiness".
After making this decision, Asai Nagamasa found Ashi and said to her: "If you want to tell your brother that I betrayed me now, I will not stop you." As early as when Asai married Asai Nagamasa, she had already made up her mind to follow her husband for the rest of her life. She told Asai Nagamasa without hesitation that she was only willing to live as Asai Nagamasa's wife.
In this fierce battle, Asai Nagamasa has no chance of winning. When Oda Nobunaga's confidant Hideyoshi Toyotomi defeated Otani Castle, Asai Nagamasa sent his wife and daughter away, and he stayed in Otani Castle and committed suicide by separatism. There is not much description of this part of life and death in historical materials. I only remembered the last sentence that Asai Nagamasa said to Ashi: "Marrying you as a wife is the glory of my life."
choice, and the rest of my life is just for revenge
Otani Castle fell into a sea of fire. Asai Nagamasa died heroically, and his two sons and Ashi were also cruelly killed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Ashi went from being a peerless beauty protected by her father and brother to Mrs. Xiaogu who was cared for by her husband, and eventually became a sad mother who raised her three daughters alone.After Ashi escaped from Oguchi, he lived in the territory of another brother. She silently raised the three daughters of the Asai family. Nine years later, these three daughters were all born into girls as bright and charming as their mothers. The most eye-catching thing is the eldest daughter Asai Chacha, which is simply a copy of Ashi back then.
Time could have slowly diluted the pain of the mother and daughter, if it weren't for the Incident of Honnoji. Oda Nobunaga's death pushed Ashi to the forefront of power struggle. Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Shibata Katsuya were at a strife to fight for power and throne. In order to make the name clear, Shibata Katsuya supported Oda Nobunaga's eldest son Oda Nobuta as the heir. Like his father, Oda Nobuta still thought of using Ashi to win over and consolidate the cooperative relationship. So Oda Nobuta found Ashi and asked his aunt to marry Shibata Katsuya.
At the same time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had already found Ashi with great difficulty and finally expressed his wish to marry her.
Ashi had no choice but to hate Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but only mocking him. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born in a humble family and was originally a servant of the Oda family. His mentality about Ashi's desire but not getting it has become extreme and perverted. According to Japanese folklore, after killing Ashi's son and kidnapped the body of Nagamasa Asai, Toyotomi cut off the heads of the father and son, painted the skulls with golden paint as wine glasses, and drank in front of Oda Nobunaga and Ashi to celebrate the ceremony. At that time, Ashi was only twenty-three years old, but he watched her husband and two sons suffer such insults.
Although Ashi is a widow and her brother who once had supreme power also died, she is still beautiful, and the powerful people are even more crazy about chasing Ashi, as if they are snatching a spoil. Ashi only loved Nagamasa Asai throughout his life, and Nagamasa Asai died. She may not marry, but if she wants to marry, she must marry someone who can avenge Asai Nagamasa. Even if Shibata Katsuya is already sixty years old, she doesn't care at all.
Shibata Katsuya was ecstatic after getting Oda City, but the marriage only lasted for a year. A year later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi fought against Shibata's army in Kushige. After Shibata Katsuya failed, Oda City asked the three sisters to escape, and he and Shibata Katsuya committed suicide in Tianshou Pavilion. They placed explosives on the Tianshou Pavilion in advance, and with the fire and explosions, their bodies were scattered everywhere.
Oda City once wrote a poem about his death:
Summer night is very wet,
is particularly important tonight, and it is even more attractive to part.
might as well go back here!
This reminds people of the famous "50 years of the world in the world" written by Oda Nobunaga before his death:
5 years of the world in the world, things are like dreams;
In the world, how can there be immortality?
Although the brother and sister were trapped in the shadow of betrayal for half their lives, they all showed open-mindedness and fearlessness when facing death. Oda City chose to live and die with Shibata Katsura's family for her own reasons:
When Asai Nagamasa committed suicide, her three daughters were still young, and the youngest, Asai E, was still in her infancy. This forced Ashi to endure the pain of losing her husband and cheer up to raise her three daughters. When Shibata Katsuya was defeated, his three daughters had grown up and could take care of themselves, so Ashi had no worries.
In Ashi's opinion, Shibata Katsuya was kind to her. Even though she was just using her age to be an old man who could already be her father, Shibata Katsuya was still very gentle and considerate to her, and Ashi was unwilling to betray her. It can be seen from the fact that she was willing to stand with Nagamasa Asai back then, she betrayed her brother that Ashi has always been a kind woman.
Finally, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was unstoppable. She was powerless and did not want to revenge by marrying her. In despair, she chose to understand this life.
So-called, there is nothing to say in life and death, and love is half a lifetime. With love for Asai Nagamasa, Achi died vigorously. She didn't have any sadness or concern.The tone of the poem of the passing of life seemed to have once complained in front of Asai Nagamasa: "Summer is so damp!"
Yes, the summer on earth is so humid. I have endured it for nine years, and it is particularly unbearable tonight!
is not as good as your husband, please take me away!
reincarnation, the story continues
Oda City is dead, but her legend is not over yet.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi eventually became the biggest overlord. He got the world and was no longer the humble Oda servant of the past. But the inferiority complex that remained deep in his heart was inspired whenever he thought of Ashi's appearance. He hated that he could not get Ashi, but never regretted sending her two husbands to a dead end. After Ashi's death, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's secret love for her became even more intense. He raised Ashi's three daughters to him, gave them the best living conditions, and subconsciously made up for his debts to Ashi.
At this time, Asai Chacha had already become graceful and graceful, becoming more and more similar to her mother when she was young. Toyotomi Hideyoshi married her as a side room and was very pampered. Chacha later gave birth to Toyotomi Hiderai and became the powerful Honey Palace. Under the arrangement of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Asahi's second daughter, Asahi Chu , married Kyoko Takashi, and the third daughter, Asahi E, was finally arranged to marry Tokugawa Hidetachi after continuous marriage and divorce. Asai E's daughter Tokugawa Kazuko later became the queen of Emperor Gomizuo, and the daughter palace that this queen was later named Emperor Akimasa, the seventh female emperor in Japanese history.
Ashi's bloodline finally became the nominal supreme leader of Japan, and the emperor at that time even life became a problem during the Tokugawa Shogunate era. The female emperor ascended the throne at the age of 5 and abdicated at the age of 19, accompanied by Qingdeng until she died at the age of 72. The three generations of women behind Ashi did not escape the teasing of fate and survived the political struggle.
Summary:
Some people say that in the history of the feudal era, women are always just embellishments. Many times, beautiful women are often just a piece of interest exchange, an excuse to sink into beauty, and a fuse to sin. In the long history of patriarchal power, beautiful women are just the objects they rob, and are symbols of power and desire.
Only, Oda City is different. If it is not her original wish to marry Asai Nagamasa, then she married Shibata Katsuya, and after the castle was broken, she died with Shibata Katsuya. This is Ashi's free choice. Her choices are often unexpected, but they are in line with her principles in Oda City. Compared with many helpless women in history who accept their fate, and even her own daughter, the three sisters of the Asai family, Ashi is brave and resolute, and she truly lives out of herself.
