
… Yanagimata Emomune no Norimune, Iwamoto Tora gan
Why did Yagyu set up Master Togan?Because I’m a gay sadist.
>>1There is no sadistic element at all.
I feel like I don’t want to be involved with this kind of person anymore.
>>1What’s interesting about this?
Having someone like this in the palace would be a problem.
>>2The Imperial Palace…?
>>2Even if they become an officer, it is likely that they will cause some sort of problem.
It’s not hard to imagine.
>>87Of course, if something goes wrong, it will lead to the question of who introduced such a person, and that will become a matter of responsibility.
Huh? I just sent proper advice since I lost completely, you know?
Do you think the Tora-Mitsu style can survive in the Tokugawa family?
Only being strong isn’t enough to handle this.
“You really plotted well, didn’t you! You didn’t do any sneak attacks afterward, did you, Master Tōgan?”
As expected, Yagyu’s guard was strong, I guess.
>>6If you retaliate, won’t the Tonganryu be taken down?
Tiger Eye isn’t that stupid.
If it were the Owari Tokugawa, maybe they could have done it with a tiger’s eye.
It’s crazy.
Honestly, does Kakegawa even have a dojo for someone like that in its castle town?
I think it’s quite risky.
If you attack the shogunate’s advisor, there will be no avoiding the destruction of the house.
It cannot be done in a samurai society that wishes for the prosperity of the household above all else.
I like how you tightly hide the grip with the hem, it’s cunning.
Hikita Bungoro is strong, but he was considered ill-suited, so it seems impossible.
If they had said it was a draw with a solemn expression, it is believed that they would have normally introduced it.
Why is that?
>>14Why did Fujiki say he was a natural-born warrior?
>>16I thought it might be fine if it’s the heir of a wealthy merchant…
How was Toga able to pass the “test”?
>>15In the first place, Yagyu and that person who is judging are close friends, so there’s no way to find a way out from the beginning.
But even Teacher Tegan can do it to some extent.
>>17Can you invite someone who only has a card like “heh heh” to an upper-class place during entertaining?
The sword may surpass Yagyu, but with the turmoil settled, having such a beast around…
>>18If that dark ruler were to master the Toganryu, it would truly be nothing but “a madman with a weapon”…
Hehe, the smile of social skills is creepy, or rather, it’s too deliberate and can be annoying to some people…
>>19Whether it’s contrived or not, what matters is showing that I am a mere underling who bows to your power…
I miss the Warring States period where only the strong could rise… or so they say.
Wouldn’t it have been better to rise in status during the Sengoku period?
>>25Please don’t be angry.
Since you haven’t risen in the Warring States period, isn’t it just 300 koku at most?
>>26A guy with no backing having 300 koku is just not normal!
In a small domain, you might end up at the end of the councilor’s rank!
>>26A mere swordsman serving as the swordsmanship instructor for the clan with a stipend of 300 koku is quite a prestigious position!
Ono Tadaaki of the Ono-ha Ittō-ryū had 600 koku!
It seems that when things aren’t ambiguous, the Kakegawa samurai were able to guide properly, so I think “hehe” is the minimum even during ambiguity.
Even in the Sengoku period, there are limits to how far one can rise based solely on exceptional martial skills.
>>28“It’s if you’re strong on the battlefield.”
If an individual could turn the tide of battle, that would be one thing, but…
It’s unclear whether Teacher Tiger Eye can engage in politics, so I can’t say anything definitive.
Looking at it again, Young Master Munekata is cool.
>>30It’s not as much of a beard as I thought!
No one knows what elements are necessary for a guide.
It’s a position for Yagyu and a dyeing shop in Kyoto.
We don’t need a swordsmanship-only style that seems even less suited than Tadaaki Ono.
>>35The name Kamiko Uenotenzan is so cool it almost seems fake.
>>44“The typical meal is an official title.”
However, since I have not received any official court rank or samurai title, it’s more of a self-proclaimed title or nickname.
During the Edo period, the domains that were not economically successful were really in the red, and it’s no laughing matter.
“Will I be taught the Tora Ganyuu style by the lord…?”
>>37To be honest, there’s a place that’s exclusively for teachers.
>>37The concept of obligation aside, there’s no need for swordsmanship guidance since it doesn’t train a lord to become first-class anyway.
>>45Kobon must have really trained Hikotomoto a lot.
In the manga, it briefly touches on the fact that the Kakegawa Domain is a small domain established for assistance.
That crazy dojo probably has the maximum budget allowed by the discretion of the pregnant elder Ishi.
>>38There’s no way that kind of arrangement would lead to that ending.
The Kakegawa Domain has an income of about 25,000 to 35,000 koku, so a family receiving just under 1% of the domain’s revenue as stipends would be considered quite successful…
It won’t work outside of Kakegawa.
Rather, I think it might have actually helped that they made a mistake here…
Even if I manage to do well there and get employed, I’ll probably end up doing something wrong and have to commit seppuku eventually…
I can’t recommend this to the general… I’ll crush it…
It’s amazing to turn swordsmanship into kendo and make it a stylish hobby.
Shigurui has too little human rights for the lower-ranked samurai.
On the contrary, how did Munemori get promoted?
That’s how it is…
>>49Although it is of course important to be liked, it is not just about swordsmanship; the ability to excel in education and governance, not to be pushy, and to demonstrate a complete absence of selfish desires, such as returning a territory to the shogun at the time of death, is a thorough survival skill.
It may be because it’s a minor dojo in Kakegawa that we’ve been able to do this.
>>50There are enough students filling the street in a line, so it’s not minor in the story!
Considering that, it’s pretty incomprehensible how Iori Miyamoto made such a big success coming from being a swordsman.
>>51That guy is seriously the same kind as Munemoto.
Becoming a chief retainer at a young age and serving as a chief retainer for generations.
Even if it was the Sengoku period, it was too late to gain fame through personal martial prowess.
It seems that Irako had more political power and would have been suitable as a successor.
>>53Isn’t the troublemaker more than Tōgan?
>>71Ilariko seems like he’s going to do unnecessary things, doesn’t he…?
If you leave it to Takedai-sama in the tiger’s eye and get sent flying by a finger, then even Muneharu can’t take responsibility.
The way of navigating society… it feels shallow to act proud in front of someone who can’t see anyway since they’re blind.
>>58I thought that was just a normal expression of being really angry.
There’s no way I could teach a crazy sword technique that relies on being able to grab the ceiling with my fingers to the lord!
Mr. Tora Ga has really worked hard in the race for promotion, hasn’t he?
It’s a different work, so it’s a different person, but when I see the abdominal art of Eiichi no Munemitsu, it makes me think that without that level of skill, one can’t survive in Edo Castle…
So I’ve mentioned the matter of obligation and forgiveness within the story, haven’t I?
It’s sad that the naive belief of a country bumpkin is to genuinely take hiding their fingers as if they are pretending to create a loan.
In the peaceful era, one cannot rise to power merely by swordsmanship alone.
It was just not simple…
That is not something to take seriously; there is no correct answer.
It is rude to show, and it is rude to hide; either way, you are turned away at the gate.
Perhaps if I wasn’t under the guidance of the Tokugawa family, I would have thought my current position was a satisfactory achievement…
In the first place, I was just lingering in Kakegawa, and suddenly getting guidance from the general is too much of a jump, Master Tōgan.
It’s a story of a swordsmanship school overshadowed by history.
For some reason, Kanoka Unryusai, who ran away with the victory and even opened a dojo, what is that all about?
>>72As a character from a later work, this resulted in only him winning big for the sake of consistency.
That Dr. Tora-gan making a silly laugh is just too shocking.
300 koku is still pretty amazing.
The fact that Munehara became a daimyo with ten thousand koku is just too incredible.
No other school of swordsmanship’s masters can even come close to half of that level, so it’s just that Munenori is extraordinary.
Monk Sōmoku is obsessed with political power, which is why the strength of the sword master in creation is often diminished.
Even as a swordsman, they’re amazing…
>>76It couldn’t be helped because the political power was too strong there.
>>76If we don’t nerf it, it’ll just turn into a wild protagonist.
If I were to show strength, I would want to show Ishibusai’s.
The Edo Yagyu, which started from 10,000 koku and later received further increases, is just too amusing.
Though it was once split and fell from power, it will return again.
If we’re talking about strength, then it must have been pretty intense in places like Kamiyama or in the world of Shigurui.
I think the reason why the lineage was passed on to Hyogo-suke instead of Munekata is what later leads to its negative portrayal.
Hehe.
I wonder how this came to be.
They won’t accept a dojo challenge.
>>86Because it’s a special school, we can’t participate in matches with other schools.
Miyamoto Musashi could only be faced by his disciples.
But well, it’s a work of fiction…
>>86I think when the teacher was young, their mind was sharp, so they put in a lot of effort and tried various tricks before facing the challenge.
However, after that, the premature deaths of the successors continued, leading to a decline…
Although it has a name, the crazy master lineage has died.
With that name recognition, Kaneko was able to become independent and has been very successful.
It resembles Teacher Fujiki from my younger days.
I think Toraigan-ryu is not good at navigating the world.
>>94There are zero candidates who seem teachable.
>>94Disciples have also become desperate farmers, townspeople, and yakuza.
A farmer’s child on the verge of being thinned out.
The Tiger Eye style is made up mostly of outcasts.
>>94I think I would have been active during the Bakumatsu period.
The phrase “Muzan muzam to dou ni utawareru no wa yoku mo waruku mo…” translates to “Being sung as ‘Muzan muzam’ by children is both good and bad…”
After defeating his high-ranking disciple, Musashi became friendly and continued to correspond with him, and when he opened his dojo…
Munerin is sending a letter asking to be nice to the lord of the land.
There’s no way I would adopt a bizarre swordsmanship style like this.
>>98If you say it’s just a one-shot trick, then that’s all it is.
The Tora Ganryu will properly forgive you if you pay the money…
I am a born warrior.
>>103I want to repay the favor of being picked up by my teacher when I had nowhere to go and could only die, with my whole existence.
>>109Come, shell guy.
Yagyu is ultimately just parlor swordsmanship.
Well, it seems that he wanted to go higher, but if someone with that personality made it to the top, they would definitely mess up. Given that even now there are important people who are big fans and really favor him, I think being treated the way he is in the story is the best outcome.
Having only one biological daughter or assassinating a fiancé to take a beautiful woman as a mistress.
I am pretending to collect money by visiting various dojos.
Even if the tiger’s eyes are not demented, it is inevitable that it will be resented or decline.
>>106Wasn’t it Genza’s unilateral decision?
It’s just a woman’s intuition, but if a revelation comes in such a tense situation, it probably fits the meta.
I wonder if Master Kogan can send disciples all over Japan to use them as monitors.
In the end, even with the Tiger Eye, I couldn’t control the cursed sword.
Despite being stronger than Munematsu… I am stronger…! You’ve really done it now!
I can’t possibly endure with 300 koku.
If it were true, it would be natural for me to be 10,000 koku, but I guess it’s unavoidable for Munemori to feel that way.
The members are too noticeable, like Irako, but no matter how hard they try from top to bottom, they can’t achieve greatness in Kakeru Kenpo.
I cannot see a vision of Yagyu’s top disciples defeating the residents of the Tiger-Eye dojo.
Both the master and the disciple are quite something, aren’t they?
>>113But what about Yagyu Jubei and Torako?
If it officially becomes a swordsmanship style of a shogun family or some daimyo’s house, it might actually lose its strength.
Oh, that’s a famous shooting star! It’s probably unavoidable to feel that way.
It is also training to strengthen one’s mental strength.
Turning the lord into a tiger is…
The Tiger Eye style might spread its name by returning with grace, but…
It’s a way that attracts too much hatred.
I think it should have shifted its strategy once it gained a certain level of recognition.
It’s similar to the Book of Five Rings, too.
If you succeed in becoming an influencer, you can advance in your career…
Looking at it this way, it’s Teacher Tōgan in his youth.
Your face looks like a cat.