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Celebration 11 (1606) April 10 -
On this day, I, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, decided to go out to Kyo with the Temple of Yodo and Chihime.
Anyway, I suddenly made up my mind last night. It would have been as you imagined that one Kiryu, who was told about it, turned her lips purple and nodded unexpectedly at the severe pain that struck her belly.
He nevertheless demonstrated his previous experience as a facilitator and by the time he got up this morning, he had even finished arranging the itinerary.
"That's fantastic! That's it!
And I accidentally lowered my head in front of him and praised him out loud against Yuan.
He raised his face in awe and had a big beard firmly in his original eye area, and it was immediately speculative that he had made the arrangements without a single night's sleep.
I couldn't wait to see how it went. I was in his ear.
"Neither the temple nor I are in Osaka Castle today, so you should relax without worrying about anything."
And he whispered and gently slapped that shoulder.
At this time, I will never forget the look he gave me, as if I were ascending to heaven.
Now, on this day, we decided with Yukimura Maida, Princess Kofi, and the four daughters of Uchi Takani and Aoyagi, the samurai of Chihime.
From the fact that I traveled with nearly a hundred offerings during my visit to Edo, I thought it was too little, but it was exaggerated.
- There is no foreshadowing of this, so it would seem better to act in small numbers in a discreet manner instead
and.
Surely if you walk in the city of Kyo with the benign men consolidating your surroundings, you will soon be surrounded by the townspeople and the officials of the Shogun and unable to move.
Even for me, I had no objection to this because it is obvious that the more people struggle to create a place for the two of us to talk with the Temple without anyone asking.
And as soon as the morning was over, he left Osaka Castle.
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"Mmmm... I'm not convinced of a thousand...!
When I arrived in Kyo, Chihime came down from the cage with a swollen face, but in the boat, I was apparently unhappy with what the temple told me about after I arrived in Kyo.
"Why is Hideyoshi and Kakao the Great Buddha and Thousand the Takatai Temple?!?
As she protested this day, she decided to act in two hands.
At the end of the day, of course, we decided to meet at the Takataiji Temple and go say hello to the High Court (about the North Administration).
By the way, both the Great Buddha (Fonghiro-ji Temple) and the Takataiji Temple are in the same Higashiyama, and furthermore, from where we are now, the Great Buddha can also be described as the passage of the Takataiji Temple.
I mean, it's not about acting together, it's not about roundabout or anything.
"Ochiya. From now on, Woe and Hideyoshi are going undercover to rebuild the Great Buddha, not to play.
You heard about that yesterday from Hideyoshi.
Besides, that place is still under construction, with large lumbers and stones.
It's a place you can never say it's safe, so you can't take a thousand.
You understand, don't you?
Told so, Chihime, nagging and reluctantly nodded, was taken by Princess Kofi and two samurai and vanished into the city of Kyo first.
And after I had seen the thousand princesses, me, the temple, and Yukimura Maida began to walk slowly to the Great Buddha.
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A short walk from the south of Kyo to the east side of the Duck River reveals a large gate.
This is Nandaemun, the Great Buddha, supposedly made by me. Of course, I have no memory of it, and in fact it must have been made at the behest of the Starch before I came to this age.
As a site, it is located in the Thirty-three Maidan Hall, surrounded by its large gate, surrounded by the grounds of the Great Buddha with a wall called the Taichu Wall.
I tried to knock over the gate without thinking.
But...
The temple stands in front of the gate and does not attempt to move quietly.
I thought a lot and asked her.
"Mother, how are you?
"Hideyoshi, I just need to drop by, okay?"
The same smile as usual can be seen in the cheer reminiscent of early summer.
With that said, it was not until after the Toyoku Festival that we saw the Temple outside Osaka Castle, when we were busy with each other in preparation for the festival, and this was the first time we had seen the Temple so seriously outside.
He wears a small sleeve with a slender, stretched tall back with a red and beautiful pattern, and weaves a white kimono from above. I was wearing a sunset cassette on my head and just shadowed around my eyes, but from those eyes I still felt the same loneliness as yesterday.
I turned my foot toward the temple, not toward the gate.
"Of course you are"
And with a dry voice worthy of the high sky, he answered.
It was the temple in front of Thirty-three Maidan Hall that took me to the Starch Hall.
"This is..."
"Hehe, right... the last time I came here with Hideyoshi was the year after Hideyoshi was born"
My chest ached softly in the mouth of the temple as if I had a memory of it.
And Yukimura Maida, who stood quietly behind us, taught us in a serene tone.
"This temple is located in the nursery home"
I look back and see Happy Village.
"Nursing home?
"Yes, it is a temple of mourning for your wife's father and mother"
"Mother's..."
There is a Toyokuni shrine near here dedicated to Hideyoshi Tai, known as "Tai Chi Han," which is so busy with worshippers that I think there are more people there every time I visit it. However, this feeding house was so secluded that it could be said that it was the opposite of its Toyokuni shrine.
Without saying anything, the temple took its foot inside the temple.
In the main hall surrounded by bamboo, only a few days of light pass, dim as cold.
She walked inside a certain room as she followed on the back of the starch, which proceeded without straying.
When I had Akimura Maida waiting outside my room, I followed the back of the starch and stepped into that room, dim and somewhere smelly.
And...
So what I saw...
It was two hanging axes.
One depicts a man, and the other depicts a woman.
I was nailed to one of these.
That's the hanging axis of a woman.
Because the woman depicted there...
It was the exact same kimono as the temple.
Hard to distinguish from the painting, but that woman whose face overlaps the starch at any rate...
"No way... this woman..."
The next temple said to me that I was out of line like that.
"Mother of the starch... the city..."
My spine trembled, obviously, that the tone was not something calm until earlier, but something that felt as cold as a snake.
And I said "stare" about myself as if I were someone else...
When I look at her in fear...
- Yahari... another starch...
Yes... there was a stare floating with something ruthless enough to freeze the surroundings, staring at the hanging axis depicted by the city.
And I told him to leak it.
"I don't remember anything about my mother.
My mother's face, her voice, and her love...
Since then, Yoshi's heart has died... "
At that time...
If my imagination is correct, it must be about the fall of Hideyoshi Kitanojo Castle… i.e. Hideyoshi Hanzai (later Toyotomi Hideyoshi thing), when her stepfather was debated and her real mother, the city, lost her life herself.
"And we were born determined to be starch shields… No, it is not an exaggeration to say that starch created itself"
"So where is your real mother?
My question makes me laugh.
"The real star… I'm real, too.
But the Lord...
Well, that's good.
Thank you to the Lord, I don't resent you... "
"Thank you... to me..."
Ruthlessness without blood or tears is a symbol of "animosity" towards others. No more, so that the starch would not be hurt, the personality now in front of him would have formed.
But she smiled somewhere now.
That was like a glimmer of light that appeared in the dark, and I fell in love with that face unexpectedly.
"It's a strange thing… since the Lord appeared, Yoshi brought his heart back to life.
And he stayed hurt, spreading his wings to the best of his ability, and stood up to protect the Lord.
Don't even know who the Lord is.
You know why?
I shook my head to the side for the inquiry.
She continued to faintly raise her mouth again.
"Yong became my mother. To the Lord's Mother."
"To my mother... what do you mean...?
She stared at me without knowing what I meant.
From that perspective, I don't feel "hostility" at all.
It's there...
Unquestionable "love" -
Inside the dim room, it's as bright as the spring yang outside poured down with you.
Yesterday, the "only view that that person can see" that the Temple was saying is this light filled with love to me right now.
After a while she took her eyes off me and turned to the hanging axis painted by the city, she said, trying to crush it.
"Looks like that's it already...
There's one last thing I'd like you to do for me. "
"Why not?"
"Starch... I want you to continue to be the Lord's 'Mother'"
"Hey... what are you talking about...? Have I not been and always will be a child of the temple..."
To that word again. She looked at me and smiled.
"Hehe... now you don't have to know. Even if you don't know, the Lord is irreplaceable in supporting the starch.
However… what lies ahead… your Lord knows best.
Still, no matter what happens, Starch will want to be his' mother '.
Will you respond to that… that's what I'm asking. "
I stare into her eyes.
Returning this wish, it just seemed like he was asking, "Can you continue to be the 'son' of the Temple as Hideyoshi Toyotomi?"
It's been six years since I've come to this age.
I intend to strive to behave in such a way that I can continue to be the 'son' of the Starling Temple.
But is it possible to see the Temple as "Mother" from the bottom of my heart?
But it may be pointless to think about it with your head.
Because the fact that no matter how much you think, I am Hideyoshi Toyotomi, not Hideyoshi Toyotomi.
Because it contains people who become "Taiichi Kondo"...
So no matter how much you try to think of the starch in your head as "mother," this fact denies it at any time.
- You can't be a real family.
and…
But what about the mind?
For the past six years. I've played a false family in my head. If you are accused of deceiving the Temple, you cannot deny it.
Maybe that's what happened to the Temple of Yodo.
But she ran out of words.
- You just have to love it as you please.
and…
The words come to my heart.
If the temple has ever treated me with its heart, what have I felt from it?
If from now on I am going to treat the Temple with all my heart, how will I treat it?
So I decided to ask my own mind.
- I don't know what starch is to me.
For that question, it came to my mind...
"Hands."
Gentle, warm, starchy... my mother's hand
That hand that always wrapped me, touched me, and pushed my back.
I don't need to think about it.
The answer is one thing from the beginning.
And I honestly revealed my feelings.
"The Starch is my mother, no matter what happens.
It can't be anything else. "
She stares at me with unchanging eyes.
In that gaze, my heart did not escape or hide.
Because I was already sure at this time.
- The Starch is my mother.
and.
"Good reply.
Then it's time.
You and Yukimura Maida outside should wait at the temple gate first.
I just need a little more help here. "
"Yes..."
"What... don't worry. I'll be right there, so do as I'm told."
There was nothing like anything in her face that I told her so, but rather it was sunny and clear.
Seeing that look on my face, I remembered something to relieve me and left her behind quietly.
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Hideyoshi Toyotomi left the room, and the stare that remained there alone stared at the hanging axis of the city.
The look is filled with love.
But...
That is not an indication of love toward 'mother' from 'son'.
Yet it...
It was directed from "Husband" to "Wife"...
"O city… this is the end of my role.
Tea (about the starch) is all right now.
As long as there is that child's life... "
Sukuri and the rising starch. She said that when a man stood in front of a drawn hanging axis, he saw the city painter again at the end of the day.
"Oh… from now on, shall we see the end of the tea upon heaven, with the city?
Let's see the tea 'dreams'.
Tea... please be happy "
Something fades away from the body of the starch.
Then…
A glimmer of tears came from the eyes of the temple.
And he bowed his head deeply toward the axis of the man.
"Thank you... Father..."
The person depicted on that hanging axis...
That's for the wife of the city, the real father of the temple...
It was Changzheng Asai.
At this time, it was certainly visible in the eyes of the temple.
The way my father took my mother's hand and disappeared beyond the light...
And there's a smile full of love for the starling temple...
This smile...
A smile she couldn't remember, even if she wanted to.
She left the room quietly, taking care of the smile on her chest.
On its back, the gentle gaze of her parents, drawn on the hanging axis, was poured out like light.
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"Thank you for waiting. Yuanjiro to Hideyoshi. Well, let's come."
I, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Yukimura Maida, have been waiting outside the Yuen Hospital to hear from you. Her face carried the usual kindness I knew.
When I saw that face, I was relieved once again.
When we turned our back to Nandaemun, we set foot inside the grounds of the Great Buddha Temple.
The vast grounds are cancer and, with the exception of officials who are looking around, there are few people.
"Heh heh, when the Great Buddha had just been made, so many people visited him that he couldn't get in here."
I smile and say starch, but I think I'm lonely somewhere.
Three people walking slowly. The sunshine that preceded the long rainy season was so strong that my forehead was twitchy and sweaty.
In the meantime, as usual, following the back of the starch walking forward as if it were a fresh stream, he went out to a place where the ground had turned black in front of him.
Large stones are laid unconstructively, with burnt large trees inside lying in charcoal.
Obviously, I also found that I did not hear the explanation that the place was where the Great Buddha was located.
No sign of it...
So much so that the word fits perfectly, the sumptuous Grand Buddha Temple, which let Hideyoshi Tai build and became a place of admiration for the common people, has disappeared.
I stood next to the stars and watched them quietly.
The temple also stares at it with loneliness.
And...
The temple opened its heavy mouth.
"Hideyoshi. Yuanjiro told you that he noticed about my Hideyoshi Straw?
When I shook my shoulder when I heard the words, Yukimura Maida, who was holding back behind me, called out.
"Let's take that off. You two are here..."
"No, Yuanjiro. That's not true."
Without even turning around, the starch spoke that way in a clear voice.
And she continued.
"Hehe, I thought it would be a big place like that.
Because Hideyoshi was in my mouth every time I said, "Is Hideyoshi okay?", I was worried about Yuanjiro. On the contrary, I must have told Hideyoshi that I was worried about her. "
"also... sorry"
"It's fine. I was just about to tell Hideyoshi about it."
And the stare stared me straight in the eye and said,
It was her heartfelt wish and her prayer.
"Hideyoshi. Wasabi is my mother.
My mother and I are more courageous and stronger than Hideyoshi thinks.
And over that lifetime, it's something that loves children.
Whether my son goes to the mountains or to the sea.
And even trying to travel to heaven.
Wherever you are, there are times when you don't love its existence.
So Hideyoshi, don't forget me.
My mother loves Hideyoshi.
Until now, until this life is exhausted.
That's why Hideyoshi doesn't have to worry.
I don't know who the hell I am.
I want you to live to the fullest!
Just that. That's all my mother ever wanted. "
The uncivilized strong thoughts of the Starch pierce my chest.
What was I afraid of?
So pure, hissing affection for the child, against the mother, I felt so ashamed of the suspicion I had.
The temperature of the head rises steadily and the back of the nose hurts steadily.
And one emotion poked at me.
"Mother!! I know I'll do something for your mother!
Could you please tell us what your mother wants now!
The temple, with a gentle smile, replied slowly to me, desperately inquiring.
"Hehe, that word is enough. If Hideyoshi lives happily ever after, that's all she needs."
The absence of lies or falsehoods in the words can be seen as soon as you look into the eyes of the temple. But then you can't even make me feel better.
Then I was reminded of some lonely look I had just shown in the back of my brain.
And it came out with his mouth before he thought with his head.
"Big Buddha... Now let this outstanding Buddha build a splendid Big Buddha here!!
Have a great big buddha who can't beat your father!
Once it's done, visit here with us!
I will definitely try to fill this place with people's smiles!!
Let me show you with the rebuilding of the Great Buddha that We have lived to the fullest!
To my resounding voice, Starling stares at me with his eyes round.
And after a while, as he had returned to me, he narrowed his eyes and said with joy.
"Well, that's a pleasure. Looking forward to it, Hideyoshi."
Yes, let's make a token that I lived as a child of Hideyoshi Tai and Dojo in this day and age!
Kyo's... No, make a symbol of hope all over Japan!
And let's make the Temple and all the people smile about it!
That's how I consolidated my resolve.
Above historical facts, there should be no starling temple, no Toyotomi Hideyoshi, no standing in the eyes of the Great Buddha, and he will leave the world.
But I'm the only one, for my mother's sake, who will definitely change that history.
I was so determined.