Shogun (1980) s01e05 Episode Script

Forbidden by lord toranaga to even speak of taking mariko's hand in marriage, blackthorne's world diminished into a sadness he had never known iost in this foreign land, and now, only days before lord toranaga had to appear before the council of regents.
Fujiko-san how did you get here? Dozo.
Domo.
Uh but your legs, uh show me.
That's incredible for burns to heal so quickly.
How? Lye, fujiko-san.
No tears.
But fujiko wept from shame the shame that she had not served him as her duty required.
Oh, how i have missed thee.
And i have missed thee.
There is much to say.
No.
Only that i love thee with all my heart, and i fear for thee still.
Do not be afraid.
Everything is going to be all right.
That is what i tell myself but today, it is impossible to accept karma and the will of god.
You've been so distant.
This is yedo, my love, and beyond the first bridge.
And more? Yes and more.
Lord toranaga's decision to surrender is so dishonorable and useless.
I never thought i could say that out loud but i have to say it.
Forgive my weakness.
And when he goes to osaka, what will happen to you? It will be over for me for all of us.
If lord toranaga dies, we cannot be left alive.
Then you must come with me.
We must escape.
There is no escape.
You must accept that.
There is if lord toranaga allows it.
Why should he allow it? Because if i capture the black ship and threaten next year's as well, then lord toranaga can force the priests to make all the christian lords come to his side.
That will make him more powerful than ishido and the council of regents.
That will make him shogun.
I don't understand, my love.
It all comes down to money.
The jesuits must have money.
Spain and portugal must have money.
Taking this year's black ship will prove that i can do it, and there's only one man who can stop me from taking every black ship that sails: Lord toranaga.
They'll have to support him in exchange for safe passage.
Do you really believe that? I know it.
Will you help me? I cannot betray the church.
I only ask that you talk to lord toranaga or help me talk to him.
I know he understands this.
I know i can convince him.
Lord toranaga is waiting.
Then we must go quickly.
No matter what happens, remember only this: I love thee.
The first bridge cannot change that.
Nothing can change that.
Lord yabu says that my master is not feeling well, so he has come in his place.
Domo.
Those are the first of your samurai.
Lord yabu asks if you accept them.
What happens if i don't accept them? They will lose their heads, but lord yabu says that has nothing to do with it.
I accept them all.
Hajime.
On my honor as a samurai, i swear your enemies are my enemies and total obedience.
Lord yabu suggests you reject this man.
Do you think i should reject you, urano-san? I beg you to accept me, anjin-san.
I will do anything you ask.
Or anything father alvito asks? Please kill me the moment you even question my absolute loyalty.
You wish to keep your head a little bit longer? I wish to serve you, anjin-san.
I accept you, urano-san.
She says that lord onoshi will poison lord kiyama during the feast of the blessed saint bernard this year.
They are both christian lords both members of the council of regents and she said lord ishido knows of this and agrees to it, providing my master is already dead.
But if that's true where did kiku-san get this information? She says that men need to tell secrets in the night.
Yabu-sama says that my master has given your ship back to you.
My ship.
Now? Yes, now.
Yabu-sama says you must go with him.
My master has ordered you to take your ship to anjiro immediately.
What was that? Osaka? I am to leave tomorrow.
Why? I do not know, anjin-san.
Until osaka until then.
Until then.
Thank god it's him.
They won't let us move from here.
What's happening, pilot? One moment we was asleep.
Next minute, the door bursts open.
The monkeys brought us here.
Thought they were gonna kill us.
We're taking the erasmus back to anjiro.
We've not enough men to set sail.
We're going to be towed, by that galley.
If that's all it is, then what's the hurry? We've got our ship back.
Don't argue; just do as i say.
Ginsel, go forward.
You'll swing the lead.
Vinck, take the helm.
Jan roper, stand by the fore-winch.
Salamon and croocq aft.
May god curse her and all who sail in her.
Except one, father.
One of our people sails with the ship.
Yes a soldier of god.
I fear the heretic will wound us terribly, michael.
Perhaps not, father.
Why else has lord toranaga given him back his ship? To harry us and to attack the black ship.
God help us.
Lord toranaga has forsaken us, too.
We have forsaken him, father.
But he still has promised us the cathedral.
Yes, the cathedral.
The work has begun.
Mariko-san? It's me father alvito.
I was just coming to see you.
What can i do for you? I wish to be confessed.
Then let it be here.
Let your confession be the first in this place, though the ground is barely hallowed.
Before god before i begin, father, i beg a favor.
Of me, or of god? I beg a favor before god.
What is thy favor? For anjin-san's love in return for knowledge.
I cannot grant such a favor.
It is not mine to give.
You cannot barter with god.
Very well.
Then please excuse me.
I will put the request before the father-visitor.
That is not enough.
I will put it before him, and i will beg him in god's name to consider your petition.
Lord onoshi will poison lord kiyama during the feast of the blessed saint bernard.
Lord onoshi's son will take over all of lord kiyama's lands and lord ishido has agreed to this, providing my master has already gone into the great void.
It's not possible.
Besides, who could ever find out such information? Urano urano was lord onoshi's confessor.
Oh, mother of god! Urano has broken the sanctity of the confessional.
And the englishman the heretic is now his lord.
But you must keep your promise before god.
Let me hear thy confession.
Forgive me, father, for i have sinned, but i can only confess that i am not ready to confess.
Daughter of god, let me beg god's forgiveness for thy sins, and let me, in his name, absolve thee and make thee whole in his sight.
May i speak to you, anjin-san? Not now, urano.
But this cannot wait.
What is it? I think it is possible that there are christians among your samurai.
It is most important that you find out at once.
You are their enemy.
With your permission, anjin-san what's that for? Please, anjin-san, make every samurai do the same.
Why? If there are christians, you will find them.
All right, order it done.
You do the same.
What for? To show them.
Come on, now, hurry up, before i put my foot in your backs.
We're not stinking pagan wogs.
They're not stinking pagan wogs.
They're samurai, by god! I'll be the first.
Hai, yabu-sama.
Vinck, you and urano come with me.
What about us, pilot? You'll leave for yedo in the morning.
Lord toranaga's ordered the ship to stay here until my return.
But how do we get there to yedo? By land.
And when is your return, pilot? After osaka and nagasaki.
After i've bought a crew.
Crew? What about them? I thought they're not sailors.
But with luck, i should be able to find 20 men in nagasaki.
And after you've found them, how do we know you'll send for us? One more word and you're dead, jan roper.
You hold your tongue around these samurai, because any one of them will take your head before i can stop them just because of your damned bad manners.
Open the gate.
How soon can we sail for macao? An hour.
What happened? About the worst thing you can imagine.
The ingeles? He's put to sea? But he has no crew.
He can do nothing without trained men.
You said he can speak their gibberish now.
Why, then, can't he use monkeys? There are enough jappo pilots to crew him 20 times over.
Ah, no, captain.
He's got to get his men from nagasaki.
He's got to buy his crew there.
And with the promise about the black ship, he can buy all the men he needs.
Perhaps he can even buy you, too.
Watch your words.
You're the motherless, milkless spaniard, rodrigues.
It's your fault the ingeles is still alive.
Twice you've let him escape.
You should have killed him when he was at your power.
Perhaps.
Well, that's froth on my life's wake.
I went to kill him when i could.
Did you? That's easy to say.
I've told you 20 times have you no ears? Or is it spanish dung in your ears as usual, as well as in your mouth?! I tell you before god, the ingeles must be devil-spawned.
You see what he has done? He has put a spell on all of us.
Yes it would seem so.
Sail, rodrigues.
Sail for macao.
What's the castle like, pilot? Like nothing you've ever seen before.
Just pray you don't see it any closer than you have to.
Right here's close enough.
How long do we stay here? A day or two, with our heads down.
Just long enough for yabu-san to arrange for safe conducts to nagasaki.
This god-cursed country's no good for us.
Aye.
We'll be home again someday, vinck whenever that day is.
And rich, too, pilot, eh? Isn't that what you said? Aye.
Ask who it is.
I do not have to ask, sire.
That is prince ogaki from the court of his imperial highness.
What the hell is he doing here? I do not know, sire, but it is a great honor.
Lord ishido knows we're here.
Yes, sire.
It appears that way.
Lord yabu has been ordered to the council immediately.
He instructs me to tell you that you have been invited to the formal reception given by lord ishido to honor the birthday of lady ochiba.
An escort will come for you at noon tomorrow.
By god, i'll not walk in that castle again! Who is this lady ochiba? She's the most powerful lady in all japan.
To be invited to her birthday reception is truly an honor, sire.
An honor? Wearing the hat and robe of a buddhist priest as disguise, urano spent the day outside osaka castle observing everyone who entered.
Then, at nightfall, he passed through lord ishido's guards and returned to the galley.
Pilot.
Look there, by the warehouse.
I tried to be most careful.
Please excuse me for not seeing him.
Well, there's nothing to be done about it now.
I'll finish this watch and wake you at dawn.
Aye, pilot if that's what you want.
I was beginning to worry.
What happened? I waited outside the castle until just after dark.
Doing what? Watching, sire.
Many passers-by put coins into my begging bowl.
I saw lady toda arrive.
Yoshinaka-sama was leading the escort.
Go on.
In the marketplace, they say that the council of regents is to be convened in 19 days, and that his imperial majesty, the emperor, will be there.
Lord toranaga has no choice but to appear before him.
It will be lord toranaga's death day, sire.
And on that day, we will all die.
But before that day, i'll buy a crew in nagasaki, and my ship will sail.
The erasmus at sea can change everything.
Everything but one thing, sire.
It cannot change karma.
Aye karma.
Urano.
What the hell's going on? Pilot, you all right? Watch out! Oh, death if i was you, pilot, i wouldn't go.
I have no choice, vinck.
What am i supposed to do while you're gone? Wait.
If it was up to me, i'd get us the hell out of here right now.
We stay.
Can't you get that through your head? We stay until we're allowed to leave.
We stay until ishido says we can go.
Do you understand that now? I understand it, but i'll be poxed if i like it.
By god, you'd better come back for me.
I'm like a moth in a bottle here.
Like a moth in a bottle.
This day is beautiful because of thy presence.
Please tell the lady ochiba that in my land it is our custom always to give a gift to a lady on her birthday, even a queen.
What are you? Just tell her, please.
The lady ochiba says she is not a queen only the mother of the heir and widow of the lord taiko.
But as a lady on her birthday, lady ochiba asks permission to accept your present.
Dozo, ochiba-sama, dozo.
I am not a barbarian.
I am samurai.
Following lord toranaga's instructions, mariko told them that she had been ordered to escort lady kiri and lady sazuko from the castle.
"Impossible! You may not leave!" Lord ishido answered.
"Then you are preventing me from doing my duty," mariko said "and i cannot live with this shame.
" What the hell is going on? Please listen, and do not ask questions for the moment.
Lord toranaga ordered me to escort the lady kiri-sama and lady sazuko to meet him.
His order was that we leave tomorrow morning.
Yes, and what happened? Lord ishido refuses to give his permission.
He says that we cannot leave.
Therefore, he is preventing me from doing my duty to my liege lord.
I cannot live with that shame.
And unless lord ishido changes his mind, i am bound by my honor to commit seppuku before sunset.
No.
You must understand, my love.
What? That you will die? No.
Hear me, my love.
I will tell you shall we go sit there, anjin-san? They can hear us.
Yes.
Keep thy voice soft and tell me that you love me.
I love thee and i cannot bear the thought of thy death.
My heart is filled with joy joy and love for thee.
Then why? Was this planned? Was your threat given on lord toranaga's orders? It was not a threat but the order was his.
Then he has betrayed you.
You're only bait for his trap you and i and lord yabu.
We've all been sent here as a sacrifice.
You are wrong.
I am sorry.
I tell thee thou art beautiful, and i love thee, but thou art a liar.
Are we going to quarrel about things that cannot be changed? They can be changed.
I can change them.
No, my love.
Then death is thy aim? The life of my master is my aim and thy life.
Is there no escape? Be patient.
The sun has not yet set.
I have no comfort except the sun.
Believe, my love.
Believe there is a tomorrow.
"Are you so eager to die?" "Here are the permits for you to leave at dawn tomorrow all of you.
" Hai.
Despite their love, kiku wept.
Lord toranaga had bought her contract.
She belonged to him.
Now she and omi could never be together never.
"Lord yabu, do you wish to live until tomorrow?" "Now perhaps you would care to listen.
" Sleep again, my love.
No.
I would rather be with thee.
I am glad thou art alive.
I saw thee dead.
Before, i thought i'd never see thee asleep again.
I saw only death yours, mine, everyone's but then i saw into your plan.
It was very long in the making.
Yes since the day of the earthquake.
Please forgive me.
I was afraid you wouldn't understand.
It was my karma to bring the hostages out of osaka castle.
And now it is done.
The victory is thine.
Yabu-sama pretending for the guards that captain yoshinaka was going to sleep, yabu followed the instructions lord ishido had given him.
There was no way yabu could prevent what was about to happen.
Therefore, if he had any chance to survive the night, it would be on the side of strength and lord ishido was master of osaka castle.
This day, more than anything, had convinced yabu that his karma was to live no matter what it might cost.
Any life was less valuable than his own.
Keep running! Sono! What the hell is going on? This this is lord toranaga's secret room.
What did he say? He says to open the door, or they will blow it open.
He says they only want you as a hostage.
Everyone else will go free.
No! It's a trick.
Don't believe them.
They don't want you.
They want me.
Why? Don't you understand? It's me! And then it will be all for nothing.
Lord toranaga will have to come.
Get back! Try to delay them.
Keep talking! I, toda mariko, protest this shameful attack, and by my death no! Mariko? Mariko? Oh, god is she here? Hai lye, wakarimasen.
Who is it? I am brother michael, anjin-san.
I was with father alvito at yokose.
We traveled together.
Brother joseph was my friend.
What do you want? I am your guide, anjin-san.
I have been sent to guide you back to the ship.
We are to leave as soon as you are able.
Who sent you? Lord ishido made the request of his eminence, the father-visitor.
The doctor says that your eyes are healing very well.
Soon you will be able to see again, little by little.
He says that you must be patient.
I'll see again? Yes, anjin-san.
Domo.
Domo.
May i help you up, anjin-san? No, thank you.
I can do it.
My swords.
I will get them for you.
Is that right? Yes, anjin-san.
If you put your hand on my shoulder, i will guide you.
You're taking me to the galley? Yes.
Those were my instructions.
Nowhere else? You can trust me, anjin-san.
I don't seem to have much choice.
Are we going alone? There will be a samurai escort, anjin-san.
Brown or gray? Neither.
They are orange kiyama samurai christian samurai.
What are they doing here? My father is cousin to lord kiyama.
We are all christians.
Christians killed your friend urano.
Murderers did that, anjin-san.
They will be judged.
But it's true that great evil happens on earth in god's name.
What will happen on the galley, brother michael? I don't know, anjin-san.
You already know so much, and in such a short time.
Mariko-sama was a great teacher.
You are a worthy samurai, anjin-san.
You have a quality that is rare here: Unpredictability.
The taiko had it.
Toranaga-sama has it, too.
You see, we are usually a very predictable people.
Are you? Yes.
Then predict a way i can escape from the trap i'm in.
There is no way, anjin-san.
Where are you taking me? As i told you, to the galley, but first, we will stop at the jesuit mission.
I was told to inform his eminence, the father-visitor, as we passed.
You said before that you had little choice.
It is even less than that.
Please, anjin-san, take my shoulder.
I am pleased to see you, captain-pilot blackthorne.
Yes, i can imagine.
Brother michael has informed me that your eyes are healing very well, and that soon, you will see again.
If i live long enough.
When does the inquisition begin? Inquisition? Is that what you were thinking? What else was there to think? Only that i wish to assure your safety personally.
Why? The black ship is here in osaka.
You're not putting me on board.
Certainly not.
I simply want to see you safely back aboard the galley.
Shall we go? Blessed mother of god.
What is it? I'm afraid that you were right.
It is the inquisition.
Who? Captain ferriera and his men.
There is the stake for burning, and his men are all armed.
Brother michael, are you here? Yes, anjin-san, i am here.
Listen, brother.
Before, you said i was a worthy samurai.
Did you mean it? Yes, anjin-san that and everything else.
Then i beg a favor, as a samurai.
What favor? To die as a samurai.
Your death isn't in my hands.
It is in the hand of god, anjin-san.
What are you going to do? There is no other way to pass.
Come, captain blackthorne.
Good evening, eminence.
This your idea? Yes, eminence.
Go back aboard the ship.
But this is a military decision, eminence.
Go aboard your ship! No! I have been waiting for you, ingeles.
That pleases me not at all.
Tonight, you'll be pleased in hell heretic.
You motherless coward! Disarm him.
Put down your guns.
For god, i order you stop.
Get back, all of you.
Get back.
I want that man.
You can't have him.
Order your men aboard.
I order you to turn around and go away.
You order me? Yes, i order you.
I am captain of the black ship, governor of macao, chief officer of portugal in asia, and that man is a threat to the state the church, the black ship and macao! This man is blind.
Stand aside.
Stand aside.
Before god, i shall excommunicate you and all your crew if this man is harmed.
Do you understand? I am military commander in asia, and i say he's a threat! This is a church matter, not a military one.
I caution you again, as god is my judge, i shall inform lisbon.
If you don't order your men aboard ship now, i will remove you as captain of the black ship.
You don't have that power.
I have the power to excommunicate you, and curse you and everyone who serves you in the name of god.
He can do it, captain, and madonna he will.
Order the men aboard.
Captain, do you hear? God curse you, ingeles.
What happened? Who's dead? The captain, ingeles.
It's the captain.
You've got the devil's luck on your back.
Brother michael.
It was my duty, eminence, to protect you.
My duty.
Yes, michael, yes.
What about the black ship? We were sailing on the tide.
Then sail.
With no captain? You shall be captain, rodrigues.
I will do the necessary letters.
The captain's share will be yours.
Captain me?! And governor of macao? Yes, captain-pilot, and governor of macao.
Well, captain, it seems the devil's luck is on your back as well, but it won't be enough.
What do you mean, ingeles? I'll sail after you, rodrigues.
I'll sail after the black ship.
With what? You have no ship, ingeles.
At anjiro.
And my eyes are healing.
I'll catch you at sea.
No, ingeles.
The erasmus is dead burned to her spine.
A spaniard's wish.
It's true.
It was the hand of god.
You lie.
No, captain blackthorne, he speaks the truth.
A tidal wave heeled your ship.
The oil lamps on deck spread fire.
I don't believe you.
Before god.
You're beached, ingeles.
You're marooned.
You're here forever.
Beached forever.
May the winds carry you to hell, rodrigues! They may, ingeles, they may but you will never sail again.
Jesus, pilot, what happened to you? Where's the captain? Tell him to set sail now.
We're going back to anjiro.
But you said nagasaki.
Now, vinck, damn you now! You are safe here, captain blackthorne.
I will leave you now.
Why? Why did you save me? For your soul and mine, and and what?! That is reason enough.
Good-bye, anjin-san.
Go with god.
I told him, pilot.
Anjiro it is.
For the love of christ, pilot.
What's amiss? They told me they told me the erasmus is lost.
Our ship is lost fire! Oh, god, let it be a lie.
Can you see her yet? No, pilot.
We're still not at the point.
What is it? Can you see, vinck? Tell me! Tell me, damn you is it true? Aye, pilot.
Even more true than that.
Tell me what you see.
It's just lying there what's left of her.
Aground.
Mast's gone.
Deck's gone.
Everything dear god! What about the keel? Can you see it? Aye.
Looks like they beached her.
Monkeys.
You've got a god-cursed fire, you're by a god-cursed shore, you beach her to fight it there.
Even these heathens know that.
Should never've left her to them.
What are we going to do now? How are we going to get home? Should've left her at yedo.
Maybe they did beach her.
Yes but the muck-eaters didn't put out the fire.
God curse them all to hell! Should've never have let jappos on her.
We're helpless now.
We're dead.
The ship is dead.
The erasmus that was alvito's curse.
What? The priest, father alvito.
He said the die was cast.
What are you talking about? He said i'd never leave these islands.
Marooned for the rest of our lives, aren't we, pilot? Groveling to these god-cursed heathens for the rest of our muck-eating lives! And how long will that be when all they talk about is war?! War, war! Answer me, pilot.
Yes, vinck, now shut up! Shut up, is it? No i speak when i damn choose, and i say what i damn please! It's your fault! Yours! You brought us to this stinking place! You said "come to the japans.
" How many died coming? Answer me that, if you can.
Oh, god, rot you, you're to blame! Yes! The blame is mine.
Does that make you feel better? What do you want me to tell you? I'm sorry, vinck.
I'm sorry.
Sorry?! Is that all you are? Are we gonna get home? I don't know.
But you've got to know.
Damn you, you're the pilot! What do you expect me to do, vinck change what's happened? If i could my heart's been torn out, vinck.
Can't you understand that? And the ship is lost my dreams lost with her.
Everything.
They've taken everything of value from my life! She's gone, vinck, and i can't change that.
Gone.
Another of our ships will come here someday.
We'll just have to wait.
Wait? How long are we going to wait? Five muck-plagued years? Twenty? The rest of our rotten, miserable lives with these black-eyed monk that's what they are! Monkeys! Always gibbering and s-staring at you.
I can't stand to look at them anymore! Oh, jesus! Dear jesus! Now there's war.
That's what you said, isn't it? All of them running around with their damn swords.
They're going to kill us, kill us! We're dead, pilot dead! Hold yourself, vinck! The monkeys are coming for us! They're going to chop off our heads and stick 'em up for the birds to eat.
The birds are! Pluck out the eyes! They're coming! They're coming! Coming! Vinck! Vinck! Vinck! Vinck, where are you? Vinck! Vinck.
Anjin.
Hai.
Scochi.
Hai.
Wakarimasu.
Alvito.
Priest! He burnt my ship! Anjin hai, toranaga-sama.
Anjin-sama.
Mariko? Lye, anjin-sama.
Konbanwa, fujiko-san.
Toranaga-sama hai.
Ichi mas.
Oh.
Anjin-ka.
Lord toranaga has questioned me about the burning of your ship.
I told him that neither i nor anyone i know of ordered or assisted in the sabotage of your ship.
He may believe you.
I don't.
Lord toranaga requests that i swear a holy oath to you and to him that i am speaking the truth.
He demands it, or he says that he will withdraw all his support forever from me and my church.
Then swear, priest.
Swear your holiest oath.
And then will you believe me? Will you? I swear solemnly before god, the father, the son and the holy ghost before all things sacred and holy that i speak the truth.
Neither i nor anyone i know of ordered or assisted in the burning of your ship.
This i swear before god.
Lord toranaga asks if you believe me now.
Hai, toranaga-sama.
I am not your enemy, pilot.
In fact i'm a better friend than you suspect.
Omi.
Kiku hai.
Lord toranaga has just given you this lady's contract.
She now belongs to you.
Belongs? Lord toranaga said that you may do with her as you wish.
What did he mean, "belongs"? She is yours.
You own this lady.
Omi-san.
Hai, anjin-san.
Hai? Lye? Hai.
Anjin-sama, hai! Lord toranaga's request was a simple one.
"Would lord yabu please explain why he killed captain yoshinaka.
" "Who dares to accuse me?" Yabu demanded.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to startle you.
I shall be leaving in the morning.
I don't know if we'll have a chance to talk again, and there are some things i would like to say.
Then say them.
I wanted you to know, before i go, that i know what the loss of mariko-san means to you.
And i wanted you to know that that i know what you meant to her.
How could you know that? She came to me.
The night you left yedo.
I'm afraid our destinies are interlocked, pilot.
Did mariko-san ever tell you that? She told me.
What else did she tell you? She asked me to be your friend.
To protect you if i could.
And i will try.
You see you will never leave here, anjin-san.
I told you that before, and i say it again with no malice, truly.
You're a brave man.
A fine adversary one to respect, and i do.
There should be peace between us.
How can there be? Anjin-todo.
Lord yabu says that he gives you his sword to commemorate your arrival at anjiro and as a thank you for the pleasure the pleasure that boiling that barbarian gave him.
Lord yabu says that none of these "manure eaters" deserves the blade.
You do.
Take it, please.
Domo, yabu-sama.
He asks you to be his witness.
Hai.
Lord yabu says that now you will see how a real samurai dies.
That was lord yabu's death poem.
It goes: "The blue sky above the earth "white clouds rise towards heaven "life is only a butterfly's dream death the way to eternal life.
" Omi hai, todo.
Anjin lord toranaga is changing your fief.
He is giving you anjiro.
Hai, toranaga-sama.
Domo.
Anjin lord toranaga has made you samurai and hatamoto.
He asks why you are standing here so stupid and weak.
Anjin before mariko left yedo, she gave this to lord toranaga.
She said if you were still alive after osaka, you were to have it.
Lord toranaga asks if you are still alive.
Hai, ichi mas.
Lord toranaga said, "then act alive.
" "Thou, i love thee.
"If this is read by thee, then i am dead in osaka, "and perhaps, because of me, thy ship is dead, too.
"I must sacrifice this most prized part of thy life "because of my faith, "to save god, my judge, but more to save thy life, "which is more precious to me than anything "even the interest of my lord toranaga.
"It may come to a choice, my love: Thee or thy ship.
"I am sorry, but i choose life for thee.
"Thy ship is doomed anyway, with or without thee.
"I will concede thy ship to thine enemy "so that thou may live.
"This ship is nothing.
"Build another.
"This thou can do.
"Lord toranaga will give thee "all the craftsmen and carpenters necessary.
"He needs you and your ships, and from my personal estate, "i have willed to thee all the money necessary.
"Build another ship, "and build another life, my love.
"Take next year's black ship, and live forever.
"Listen, my dear one, my christian soul "prays to see thee again in a christian heaven.
"My japanese hara prays that in the next life "i will be whatever is necessary to bring thee joy "and to be with thee, wherever thou art.
"Forgive me but thy life is all-important.
I love thee.
" Yoshi toranaga, lord of the kwanto, told himself, "yes, build your ship, anjin-san, "and i shall destroy her as i destroyed the other one.
"And when the time is right, i shall tell you why: "It was your ship or your life.
"I, too, choose your life.
"You have much to teach me, anjin-san.
"Once i have won, and if i win when i win "when the real prize will be won.
"Mariko, it was your karma to die gloriously "and live forever.
"Anjin-san, my friend, "it is your karma never to leave this land.
"And my karma, my karma, which i did not choose, my karma is to be shogun.
" That year, at dawn on the 21st day of the tenth month the month without gods the main armies clashed.
It was in the mountains near sekigahara, astride the north road.
By late afternoon, toranaga had won the battle, and the slaughter began.
40,000 heads were taken.
Three days later, ishido was captured alive and toranaga sent him in chains to osaka for public viewing, ordering him planted in the earth with only his head showing.
Passersby were invited to saw at the most famous neck in the realm with a bamboo saw.
Ishido lingered three days and died very old.
Within the year, the emperor invited yoshi toranaga, lord of the kwanto, to become shogun, and reluctantly, toranaga agreed.