Oda Hajime No Otoko, Niwa Nagahide

[Machine Translation] Nagahide Niwa, known as "Yone Goroza," was a man who was compared to "rice" in the Oda family, meaning that he was indispensable to the Oda family. His right hand man, Ushiichi Ota, tried to secretly preserve Nagahide's writings. Nagahide was in a difficult situation because of the Honnoji Incident. Although he was in the best position to defeat Akechi Mitsuhide, he was unable to move his army, let alone stop the outburst of Nobunaga's son Nobutaka, with whom he was working, from killing Mitsuhide's daughter-in-law, Tsuda Nobusumi, in a fit of suspicion. However, in the midst of the great upheaval, Nagahide, with his feelings for his late lord and his eyes on the future to believe in, had come up with a secret plan.... A secret history of the Warring States period by a newcomer, depicting the passionate way of life of men!

織田家中において、決して欠かせぬ者という意で「米」にたとえられた、「米五郎左」こと丹羽長秀。その右筆・太田牛一は、長秀の記を秘かに残そうとする。本能寺の変で長秀は、窮地に立たされていた。明智光秀を討つのに最も有利な位置にいながら、軍を動かすことはおろか、行動を共にする信長の息子・信孝が光秀の娘婿・津田信澄を、疑心のあまりに殺害するという暴走を止められなかった。しかし、大乱の中で長秀は、亡き主君への想いと、信じるべき未来を見据え、ある秘策を立てていたのである...。男たちの熱い生き様を描いた、新鋭による戦国秘史!