A man who reincarnated as a baby in the modern age was an “old man.” He had studied the Hachikyu Ruchigen school and admired the tragic warlord Kitayake Meiko, who died young, because he had become captivated by Kitayake Akie, played by the beautiful idol Goda Kumi in the historical drama The Great Peace. This old man’s baby reincarnation was Oda Nobuo. Adopted by Kitada Nobunaga at the behest of Oda Nobunaga, the Sengoku-era overlord, he was unable to keep his family together. He meekly obeyed when his adoptive grandfather, Kitahata Gyokukyo, schemed to resist Takeda Shingen’s southward advance, and Nobunaga, furious, ordered the death of Kitayake. Later, Nobuo launched a war in Iga Province on his own, causing the death of a capable vassal. Nobunaga rebuked him, setting off the Tensho Iga War and burning down Azuchi Castle at Honnoji. Known as the “Blind Man of the Sengoku Era,” this fool left only a small territory to his descendants.
