Oda Ujiharu: Why the ‘weakest Samurai warlord’ is admired
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Oda Ujiharu: Why the ‘weakest Samurai warlord’ is admired
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#2The writing style has me in stiches, it feels at odds with the layout and imagery, but completely fits the character of the story in question.
I wonder how well a Real Housewives-style show would work set in the Sengoku-era.
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#3Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
This guy is all of those men, like 10 times over.
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#4> However, a wise man once said: “[It] ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward.” Ujiharu may have lost Oda Castle nine times, but that means he also won it back eight times, almost always with smaller armies. His refusal to accept defeat and his iron will to get up and keep fighting is why many historians reject the “weakest samurai warlord” nickname and instead refer to him as “The Phoenix.”
Love this paragraph from the article.
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#5Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times. This guy is all of those men, like 10 times over.
This is such a dumb saying. Good times are created by weak people working together to defeat strong people. Most hard times are created by "Strong Men" fighting each other. Just take a look around the world - is it countries under the sway of warlords that have the best times? Or is it countries where the institutions are stronger than the individuals, where rulers have been limited or deposed by groups of individually weaker people? Weak people don't create hard times - it's tyrants that do that.
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#6Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times. This guy is all of those men, like 10 times over.
This is such a dumb saying. Good times are created by weak people working together to defeat strong people. Most hard times are created by "Strong Men" fighting each other. Just take a look around the world - is it countries under the sway of warlords that have the best times? Or is it countries where the institutions are stronger than the individuals, where rulers have been limited or deposed by groups of individual…
Then those men you're calling „weak“ are actually strong...
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is such a dumb saying. Good times are created by weak people working together to defeat strong people. Most hard times are created by "Strong Men" fighting each other. Just take a look around the world - is it countries under the sway of warlords that have the best times? Or is it countries where the institutions are stronger than the individuals, where rulers have been limited or deposed by groups of individual…
Then those men you're calling „weak“ are actually strong...
Strong together. Strong, when they choose to support each other. Weak otherwise.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is such a dumb saying. Good times are created by weak people working together to defeat strong people. Most hard times are created by "Strong Men" fighting each other. Just take a look around the world - is it countries under the sway of warlords that have the best times? Or is it countries where the institutions are stronger than the individuals, where rulers have been limited or deposed by groups of individual…
Then those men you're calling „weak“ are actually strong...
"Good times" is a property of the political system as a whole and has little to do with "strength of men" unless you bend backwards to redefine strength.
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#9With the quotes in the article title I was thinking dang how have I never heard of that anime.
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#10Man of the people:
> Ujiharu’s blind charges may actually have had a noble purpose. Japanese battles involving castles almost always turned into sieges, and those always ended the same way: with the nearby fields and peasant settlements being either destroyed to try and draw the lord out of the castle or looted to feed the occupying army. Some researchers believe that Ujiharu was trying to avoid a siege to save his subjects.