Mitsuhide's initiation of the Honnoji Rebellion and the killing of his lord, Oda Nobunaga, was a major event that influenced Japanese history for hundreds of years.
As for the reasons for Mitsuhide's rebellion, Oda Nobunaga has long adopted the theory that Oda Nobunaga repeatedly treated his wise Mitsuhide harshly, and even beat him in public, making him resentful. Specifically:
When Mitsuhide attacked the Hatano clan of the Tanba kingdom, he took his birth mother (adoptive mother) as a hostage and promised to save the life of the Hatano clan and persuaded them to surrender, but Oda Nobunaga killed the surrendered hatano Hideharu and Hideyoshi brothers, and the mother (adoptive mother) of Mitsuhide Washito was killed. Therefore, Mitsuhide and Oda Nobunaga have the so-called "revenge of killing their mothers".
Oda Nobunaga used the heads of the defeated generals Asai Nagamasa and Asakura Yoshiaki to make a golden wine cup and forced his courtiers to drink from this cup, which Mitsuhide believed was violent and did not follow, and was beaten by Oda Nobunaga in public.
Oda Nobunaga burned mount Hiei, a sacred Buddhist site in Japan, killing tens of thousands of monks, women and children, and Mitsuhide advised that the move was too violent, and was beaten in public by Oda Nobunaga.
After the Oda family attacked the Takeda family, at the celebration party, Mitsuhide said that this was the work of the monarchs and courtiers, but was beaten in public by Oda Nobunaga, Oda Nobunaga even claimed that he could dominate Japan all because of his wisdom and divine martial arts, the work of one person.
Oda Nobunaga sent Mitsuhide to entertain his ally Tokugawa Ieyasu in Azuchi Castle, but due to the hot weather and the spoilage of the fish on the plate, Oda Nobunaga was furious and beat Mitsuhide in front of his courtiers and Tokugawa Ieyasu, causing him to lose face.
Oda Nobunaga stripped Mitsuhide of his domains in Tanba and Sakamoto, renamed them to Izumo and Iwami, who were still under the enemy Maori clan, and asked him to send his own troops to capture them, and to become a subordinate of Hashiba Hideyoshi, who had no choice but to rebel.
Oda Nobunaga claimed to be a god, disrespected the Japanese imperial court, planned to depose the Japanese emperor, established himself as emperor, and was born into a wise Mitsuhide, who always respected the imperial court, befriended the secretary of state, and was loyal, in order to prevent Oda Nobunaga from usurping the throne, so he launched a mutiny with their support.
Mitsuhide is a descendant of the Mino Domain's famous MenAki clan, and is the cousin of Oda Nobunaga's wife Saito Guidi, who has been thinking of each other since he was a child and his cousin Aome Takema, but he is later taken by Oda Nobunaga's sword, so he launches a mutiny, both to vent his long-standing resentment and to repay the hatred of his wife.
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The games "Nobunaga Nobunaga", "Taikaku Rishi", "Sengoku Matchless" series, etc., created by koei (Koku) Company, as well as the japanese TV series (the so-called "Ōkawa Drama") that deal with the history of the Sengoku period of Japan every year, most of the time, one or more of these terms are used in the changes involving honnoji Temple ("Honnoji Barbecue Tournament"), which is held every two years on average.
However, in the real history, all of the above historical materials are false, all of them are false. The source basically comes from a strange book "Wise Army" that washed away the rebellious behavior of Wise Guangxiu. There are too many such exaggerated and gold-plated private notes in Japan for characters who want to boast, whitewash, and whitewash, and in essence they are only making up novels and stories, and they have never been truly rigorous historical materials, nor can they find any authoritative documents that can support these records.
The real history of wise Mitsuhide, the first half of his life deeds are completely unverifiable, the real age is also unverifiable, but it can be determined that he is not a descendant of a famous family at all, and he is not related to Lady Guidi, and the "Mino Wise Clan" is purely impersonated. In fact, like Kazuyoshi Takikawa and Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who are also the "Oda Four Heavenly Kings", he belongs to people who come from extremely humble origins and wander around looking for the Lord in order to seek fame. At that time, among the various daimyōs in Japan, only Oda Nobunaga, who was an eclectic and demoted talent, dared to use and reuse such people.
In order to achieve fame, Mitsuhide has been actively involved in Oda Nobunaga's struggle for supremacy, actively supporting Oda Nobunaga's so-called "tyrannical" actions, such as burning Mt. Hiei and killing countless monks, women and children, such as designing to lure the Hatano brothers out of the city and then booby-trap them, Wise Mitsuhide is the main executor, and has never been subjected to any so-called "advice".
As a result, Mitsuhide was deeply appreciated by Oda Nobunaga, and gradually promoted him from a blind stream to the head of the Oda family in Kyoto, taking over the affairs of the imperial court, and applying for the real name of the "Wei Ren clan".
When Oda Nobunaga exiled his elder ministers Sakuma Nobumori and Hayashi Tonkatsu, while reprimanding these two people for holding high positions but doing nothing, he also deliberately praised the "Only Ren Hinata Shou" (i.e., Wise Mitsuhide) as outstanding and enterprising representatives of outstanding and enterprising courtiers. At this time, it has not been long since the change of Honnoji Temple has occurred.
Notes from Western missionaries in Japan at the time described Mitsuhide as a treacherous man with two sides and three knives, adept at strategizing and betraying. The diary of the secretary of state of the imperial court wrote that Wise Guangxiu used his power to encroach on their manor, making him dare to be angry and dare not speak. The descendants of Sakuma Nobumori, in the family history written in the Edo period, also said that Nobumori was framed by Mitsuhide's rumors.
Contrary to Mitsuhide, according to the diaries of these missionaries and secretaries of state, as well as the records of the first-hand direct historical record "Nobunaga Gongji", Oda Nobunaga was the loyal vassal who truly respected the Japanese imperial court and respected the emperor, and he restored the authority of the imperial court that had been bullied for hundreds of years by the Kamakura shogunate and the Ashikaga shogunate, stabilized the order in the Kyoto region of Japan, and allowed the former beggar-like imperial family and secretaries to be well fed and well-fed, so they were deeply grateful to them, and they would never attempt to conspire and murder Nobunaga.
Moreover, Oda Nobunaga only punished those who opposed him and betrayed him repeatedly, and was very tolerant and benevolent to his loyal courtiers, and would never beat such a heavy minister in public as Mitsuhide, and he never showed any mercy.
So, what is the real reason for the rebellion of Wise Guangxiu? Previously, Japanese historians have more generally accepted the following statement:
Mitsuhide was long in charge of diplomatic liaison with the Nagamasa Ibu clan, who was then subordinate to the Oda clan. Toshizo Saito, the chief right-hand man of Mitsuhide Ofaki, was also the in-law of The Patriarch of Nagamasa.
Nagamasa's clan, bent on unifying the entire Shikoku Island, continued to attack the Miyoshi kingdom of Sanuki after capturing the Tosa and Awa kingdoms. The Miyoshi clan, on the other hand, used Hideyoshi Hashiba as an intermediary to ask Oda Nobunaga for help. Oda Nobunaga ordered The Nagamasa I clan to cede the Awa Kingdom and return to Tosa, but when Nagamasa's clan did not comply, Oda Nobunaga ordered his son Oda Nobunaga to form the "Nankaido (Shikoku) Army" and prepare to send troops to fight.
Mitsuhide thought that if the Oda family attacked the Nagamasa Ibu clan, his position as a former diplomatic liaison would be dangerous, and he was angry that he had fallen out of favor in the competition with Hashiba Hideyoshi, so he took advantage of the opportunity that Oda Nobunaga had only a few hundred relatives around him and stayed at Honnō-ji Temple overnight.
At the same time, some Japanese historians believe that at this time, Wise Mitsuhide had been emptied by Saito Toshizo because of his old age and faintness, and Saito Toshizo was worried that Nagamasa's clan would be destroyed, and he as his in-laws would certainly lose his life, so he coerced Wise Mitsuhide to raise an army to rebel. Judging from his famous daughter who later influenced the course of Japanese history (the wet nurse of the third-generation Tokugawa Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, "Kasuga Bureau"), it seems impossible.
The game "Sengoku Peerless" series created by koei (Glory) Company obviously refers to the "Three Kingdoms Peerless" series, and Oda Nobunaga's template is known to everyone, that is, Cao Cao. And the wise Guangxiu who forced him to set himself on fire, the template obviously refers to the "Mei Zhou Lang" Zhou Yu.
So, in a real history, the old man who is definitely older than Oda Nobu and may have passed the age of 60,
In the game, he inexplicably and wonderfully turned into a beautiful young man who burned thousands of enemies in the red lotus industry, so he was loved by many fans.
At the time of the change of Honnoji Temple, not only was Oda Nobunaga and Oda Nobunaga killed, but also the core forces of the Oda family center, a large number of central bureaucrats and forbidden army commanders, were all killed, and too many important records were lost. Thus, the history of the development and growth of the Oda family became that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had gained Japanese hegemony, and wrote it arbitrarily according to their political needs.
In the following hundreds of years, various novels and stories about the changes in Honnoji Temple were originally written to highlight how "unpopular" and "self-seeking" Oda Nobunaga was, so the Momoyama regime of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Edo shogunate of Tokugawa Ieyasu were the "destiny of heaven", and they were also widely popular with the spread of various Japanese Sengoku games.
Wise Guangxiu thus changed from an ungrateful and usurper old man to a great hero of noble temperament, innocent and humiliated and indignant, loyal to the king and patriotic to destroy the demon king, which is really magical.