Shimpen Sekigahara 1 / Rekishi Gunzo Shinsho 272-1

[Machine Translation] Keicho 3. Immediately after the cherry blossom viewing in Daigo, Toyotomi Hideyori dies suddenly at the age of only five. Hideyoshi was distraught at the loss of his precious heir. The daimyo and magistrates, including Kiyomasa Kato and Hideie Ukita, nominated their own candidates, and the struggle for the heir to the throne became chaotic. In the midst of this confusion, the heir was unexpectedly chosen: Katsutoshi Kinoshita, a small feudal lord of 65,000 koku in Wakasa, who was a nephew of the Northern Masatomoso. Tokugawa Ieyasu, in order to seize control of the country, imposed a series of difficult tasks on the young Katsutoshi. However, Katsutoshi, together with Ishida Mitsunari, Otani Yoshitsugu, and Sanada Nobushige, who was staying at the Osaka Castle as a hostage, were able to handle the situation appropriately. Ieyasu, who judged that it would be impossible to usurp the throne through political maneuvering, returned to Edo (Tokyo) and began preparations to raise an army. Here began the battle that would divide the country.

慶長3年。醍醐の花見の直後、豊臣秀頼がわずか5歳で急死。大切な世継ぎを失い秀吉は錯乱する。加藤清正、宇喜多秀家など、大老、奉行らはそれぞれの候補者を推挙し、混迷する跡目争い。その混乱のなか跡継ぎに決まったのは、意外にも北の政所の甥である若狭6万5千石の小大名・木下勝俊だった-。徳川家康は天下を奪うため、若き勝俊に次々と難題を突きつける。しかし、石田三成、大谷吉継、そして人質として大坂城に在った真田信繁らとともに、的確にこれらを処理していく。政略では天下簒奪は無理と判断した家康は、江戸に戻り挙兵の準備を始める。ここに天下を二分する戦いが始まった。