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Flashbacks provide the reply. In her youth, Ochiba, generally known as Ruri (Mila Miyagawa), is the daughter of a robust ruler and quick associates with the younger Mariko (Mana Nakamura). But Mariko’s father, the samurai Akechi Jinsai (Yukata Takeuchi), is aghast on the brutality of Ruri’s father, as are different outstanding nobles, together with Toranaga. Acting virtually actually as a part of a conspiracy, Jinsai assassinates the rogue lord, the shattering occasion Mariko described for Blackthorne in Episode 5.
The homicide paves the way in which for the Taiko’s peaceable reign. But it’s also a grave crime, one for which honor calls for that Jinsai kill his household, then take his personal life. As the one surviving member of the family, Mariko’s fame is stained by her father’s treason.
We know that Jinsai married off Mariko to Buntaro, a poor match, to save lots of her, however at this level Mariko believes she has been condemned to a shame-filled life she would somewhat finish. Her survival is all of a sudden forged in a brand new mild: Toranaga tells Mariko her father willed her to reside so she may search revenge someday.
So Mariko and Ochiba, as soon as associates, discover themselves on reverse sides of the approaching warfare, each are pushed to avenge their slain fathers towards surviving enemies. In a dialog with Toranaga, Mariko says that in contrast to males, who can decide and select their causes to go to battle, “a girl is solely at warfare.” Indeed, it does at occasions look like conforming with feudal Japanese concepts about propriety is a lifelong bodily battle. But for these two girls particularly, warfare has raged inside them for many years. Even when nobody’s being killed, they carry the battle.
With Ochiba again in Osaka and free to boss the Regents round, Toranaga is aware of it’s solely a matter of time earlier than his demise sentence is lastly accepted. In a genuinely thrilling council scene that includes all his high advisers, save Blackthorne, Toranaga contemplates his technique. A consensus grows that his subsequent transfer must be a top-secret contingency plan dubbed Crimson Sky: a single, all-out assault on Osaka Castle designed to concurrently wipe out his enemies and institute a brand new authorities with Toranaga as its head. “Shogun,” his awestruck son whispers in delight.
