The Sengoku daimyo Asakura Yoshikage will be featured on NHK's history program "Rekishi Tantei" (General), which will air from 10:00 pm on October 29th. Asakura Yoshikage was highly regarded during the Sengoku period, and was counted among the top three men in Japan. The latest research will explore the unknown side of Yoshikage, revealing the reasons for his high esteem.
The Tamonin Diary, written during the Sengoku period, mentions three people who were close to becoming the ruler of Japan: Oda Nobunaga, Takeda Shingen, and Asakura Yoshikage. In search of their secrets, the program thoroughly investigated Ichijodani and the mountain castles associated with them.
The investigation reveals that Ichijodani, the base of operations, was a huge city with cutting-edge technology. Furthermore, the mountain castle that Yoshikage rebuilt before the battle with Nobunaga reveals his superior military skills, including some of the finest castle-building techniques of the Sengoku period.
