For friends familiar with japan's Sengoku history, Imakawa Yoshimoto is certainly not an unfamiliar name. Imakawa Yoshimoto is known as the "Tokaido Ichigoku" and was once the most powerful Sengoku daimyō in Japan. However, in the famous "Battle of barrel narrow space", Imakawa Yoshimoto died in the raid of Oda Nobunaga.
In many of today's Japanese Sengoku-themed film and television dramas and games, Yoshimoto Imagawa is "hacked", and his image is far less than that of his two relatives. Many people think that the reason why Imakawa Yoshimoto is "black" is the so-called "hero of success or failure", but Honji believes that there are more important reasons.
The Sengoku period in Japan is divided into two narrow and broad senses: the narrow Sengoku period is the "Oshijin Rebellion" in 1467 to the Oda Nobunaga Kami-ra in 1568; the broad Sengoku period is the "Onin Rebellion" to the "Osaka Summer Array" in 1615, including the Azuchi Momoyama period and the early Edo period.
The sengoku in the narrow sense was divided into three stages: the first stage of the Onin Rebellion in 1491, the collapse of the Muromachi shogunate, and the second stage of the "Barrel Narrow Battle" from 1491 to 1560, the Sengoku Daimyo Melee. The "Barrel Narrow Battle" to Nobunaga Kami-Rakami was the third stage, and the unification core was formed.
At present, the most well-known Japanese Sengoku figures (such as Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu) are basically historical figures in the third stage of the narrow sengoku period and the Azuchi Momoyama period, while the historical figures of the first and second phases of the narrow sengoku period are relatively low in folk popularity.
Because of this, Japanese Sengoku-themed film and television dramas and games are basically set in the third stage of the narrow Sense of Sengoku and the Azuchi Momoyama period. The embarrassment of Imagawa Yoshimoto is that the "Barrel And Narrow Battle" that killed him happened to be the beginning of the third stage of the narrow Warring States era.
As a result, most of the Japanese Sengoku-themed film and television dramas and games take Imakawa Yoshimoto as the "first level boss", basically getting a bento soon after the debut, and there is no space to seriously portray the image of Imagawa Yoshimoto. The thin image is already more polite, and "being hacked" is even more inevitable.
The "Barrel Gap Battle" is staged almost every year like the "Honnoji Change", and Imakawa Yoshimoto is "hacked" every year. In works set in the first and second phases of the Warring States period, Imakawa Yoshimoto's image is much better, such as the Okawa drama "Takeda Shingen" and "Wind Forest Volcano".