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Cecilia Lanny Winata
Aliases: Lanny/Cecilia/Xenopus
Location: Singapore
Occupation: Grad Student, National University of Singapore
Interests: Zen, Martial Arts, Japanese Culture and philosophy, Life Sciences, Religious philosophy, Christianity
Hobbies: exploring new places, learning new things, walking (preferably outdoors), cooking, eating good food, home making, swimming, sea sports, anime (Naruto being the best by far), good music to accompany my different moods, and good books to read
Schools/Past Affiliations: TK Bunda Hati Kudus, Jakarta (Kindergarten); SD Bintang Kejora, Jakarta (Primary 1-2, 4-6); Ironside State School, Brisbane, Australia (Primary 3-4); SLTP Santa Ursula, Jakarta (Secondary School); SMU Santa Ursula (High School); Indonesia International Taekwon-Do Federation (Jelambar, Jakarta); National University of Singapore



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skin by: Jane
Friday, July 31, 2009 @ 9:27 AM
The Battle of Okehazama

19 May 1560, Oda Nobunaga rode out with 200 men in the early morning, to intercept the forces of Imagawa Yoshimoto, numbered some 20,000 men.

The night before, in the assembly of his generals, all of whom advised either surrender or defense, he spoke:

"Imagawa has 40,000 men marching toward this place? I don't believe that. He 'only' has 25,000 soldiers. Yes, that is still too many. So, Sado, you want me to surrender. What if we do surrender? Will you get content with losing your life that way? Or what if we hold on like Katsuie wants me to? What if we stay here in this castle, lock it up, and wait until the Imagawas lose appetite and stop the siege and go home? We will be able to prolong our lives for 5 or 10 days, and what we cannot defend will still be undefendable. We are at the bottom of the pit, you know. And our fate is interesting. Of course the misery is too great, too. But this is how I see it: this is a chance in a lifetime. I can't afford to miss this. Do you really want to spend your entire lives praying for longevity? We were born in order to die! Whoever is with me, come to the battlefield tomorrow morning. Whoever is not, just stay wherever you are and watch me win it!".

On his way to Okehazama, the place where the Kyoto-bound Imagawa troops were taking a break amidst their journey, Oda Nobunaga was joined by some of his generals' forces, one after another. They add up to about 3000 men.

In the afternoon of the same day, 3000 Oda troops claimed victory over 30,000 strong Imagawa force.

And the rest is history.

(i wanted to include a clip from Samurai Warriors 2 game to add more drama to this entree, but i think Nobunaga looked too evil there, and his costume looked kinda gay with all the feathers...)



1 Comments:

This is very inspirational! Thanks for sharing this...

By Blogger a0z0ra, at 4:43 PM  

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