Ishida Mitsunari ▽ 石田三成 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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piratejournal2014-04-19 04:07 pm
curseking) wrote in piratejournal2014-04-19 04:07 pm
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002. voice
[Mitsunari's voice may not be a familiar one as he uses the journal so infrequently. Today he's actually bothering with it because he's realized there's a practical, productive use he can get out of the darn thing. What is that, you ask?
He can spread propaganda for a dead guy!]
"Hideyoshi Toyotomi."
If you have never before heard this name--my lord's name--commit it to memory immediately. You are no longer allowed to claim ignorance of his existence.
Lord Hideyoshi was an exemplary person. A paragon! His noble ambition was to unify the Land of the Rising Sun once and for all! Though his life was cruelly extinguished by Ieyasu Tokugawa, I am speaking now to ensure that his memory persists.
When you hear that name, understand that it commands respect! Know it belonged to a man whose magnificence will never, in all of time, be matched by another!
...
And if you are aware of my lord's works and still choose not to acknowledge his greatness, know that your behavior is absolutely unconscionable!
[So! ...Any questions?]
He can spread propaganda for a dead guy!]
"Hideyoshi Toyotomi."
If you have never before heard this name--my lord's name--commit it to memory immediately. You are no longer allowed to claim ignorance of his existence.
Lord Hideyoshi was an exemplary person. A paragon! His noble ambition was to unify the Land of the Rising Sun once and for all! Though his life was cruelly extinguished by Ieyasu Tokugawa, I am speaking now to ensure that his memory persists.
When you hear that name, understand that it commands respect! Know it belonged to a man whose magnificence will never, in all of time, be matched by another!
...
And if you are aware of my lord's works and still choose not to acknowledge his greatness, know that your behavior is absolutely unconscionable!
[So! ...Any questions?]
voice;
[That said, he isn't going to pass up a chance to talk some more about how super totally awesome Hideyoshi was. But where to begin?]
He was my lord because, long ago, he graciously allowed me the privilege of becoming his subordinate. Everything I am, I owe to him.
To your second question; the country was divided in every sense of the word. Lord Hideyoshi saw that the nation was becoming weak as a result, and he aspired to remedy that weakness through the strength that unification under Toyotomi rule would afford.
voice;
Riiiiight. I see. Kind of had himself a world-balance thing going, that's great! I've got it on pretty good authority that balance is super important.