Battle of Okehazama - The Ouchi Get Sue’d - Update 26
After losing dramatically at Gassantoda Castle to the Amago Clan, Yoshitaka Ouchi, leader to the Ouchi Clan, completely lost desire to expand his territory. Yoshitaka moved the Takafusa Sue’s militarist faction that had led the charge against the Amago away from the center of clan politics, leaving governing to more moderate retainers.
August, in the 12th year of Tenmon, 1551. The opposition between the militarist and moderate factions had reached its peak, leading Takafusa Sue to raise an army.
Yoshitaka Ouchi:
T-Takafusa! Why…Why are you doing this?! Have you forgotten what I have done for you? How I loved you?
Takafusa Sue:
Lord Yoshitaka… It is because I cannot forget what you have done for me that I cannot bear to watch the Ouchi go down this road any longer. And love’s end, my lord, often goes unnoticed. Now, everyone, slay Yoshitaka! The Ouchi clan no longer needs a spineless leader!
Unable to make any sort of organized resistance, Yoshitaka Ouchi took his life at Taineiji Temple.
Takafusa Sue had Yoshishige Otomo’s younger brother, Haruhide Otomo, change his name to Yoshinaga Ouchi and placed him as the head of the Otomo. He then changed his own name to Harukata Sue and went on to hold the true authority within the clan.
