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Paul Vandermaelen's avatar

Is the name of the castle Okatoyo or Okō? It seems that the 2 kanji are Oka and toyo, but that the name is read as Okōjō.

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Samurai History & Culture's avatar

You are correct, and apologies for my mis-translation. Okou-jo it is.

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João Carlos's avatar

According to the data material, it wasnt rare to see one personality change after someone death.

Hideyoshi after Hidenaga's and Hanbei's death, Mitsunari after Hideyoshi's, Ieyasu after Sena and his eldest son.

Living on the edge and with the weight of the world on the shoulders...

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Samurai History & Culture's avatar

I would imagine the Sengoku samurai also suffered from various forms of PTSD from the stress of continual warfare, and surviving daily life.

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João Carlos's avatar

Truthful. Sometimes we forget that they were humans after all, and with the knowledge we have about mental disorders and traumas, its very hard to imagine how much these people heads were affected.

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Samurai History & Culture's avatar

Their heads,...and the ones they collected too.

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