Nobunaga Goroshi, Mitsuhidede Ha Nai Itan Sengoku Shi No Saiko Kessaku Kanzen Fukkoku! (Seikaisha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] A classic of conspiracy theories surrounding Nobunaga's death. (Nobunaga Oda was betrayed by his vassal, Mitsuhide Akechi, and met an untimely end at Honnoji Temple, just before he was to unify the country. However, Mitsuhide was not even in Kyoto, let alone Honnoji, when Honnoji was engulfed in flames. Drawing on the diary of a court noble of the time (Kotokei no kyouki), the author asserts that Honnoji had been reduced to ashes before Mitsuhide appeared in Kyoto, and that Mitsuhide had an alibi. Then, who was the real murderer of Nobunaga? From the theory that Mitsuhide's chief vassal, Rizo Saito, ran amok, to the theory that Nobunaga's wife, Kicho, was behind the bombing, to the theory that the Jesuits were behind it all. This is a representative work by a rare historical writer to know the heretical royal road (Yagiri's historical view), which cut into the Honnoji Incident (authentic history) head-on.

信長の死をめぐる陰謀説の古典。「天下統一を目前に、家臣である明智光秀に裏切られ、本能寺で非業の最期を遂げる織田信長」。ところが、本能寺が炎に包まれたとき、光秀は本能寺はおろか京都にさえ居なかった。著者は当時の公家の日記「言経卿記」を引いて、光秀が京都にあらわれる前に本能寺は灰塵に帰しており、光秀にはアリバイがあったと断言する。では、信長殺しの真犯人は誰か?光秀の重臣・斎藤利三の暴走説から、信長の正室・奇蝶の黒幕説、イエズス会による爆破説まで。稀代の歴史作家が本能寺の変の「正史」に真っ向から斬り込んだ、異端の王道「八切史観」を知るための代表的著作。