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My Tenkai for the Len'en Project Anniversary collab

From the temple’s collection; image from the webpage for a special exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum in late 2021

Setsura herself is the one who hints at this during one of her interactions with Otome, but it makes more sense the more you ponder it. She’s passionate, brooding, and outwardly intimidating, while they’re cheerful, unassuming, and carry their strength on the inside. Sure they have their own personalities within that archetype - Youhime is shy but also the angriest, Otome is the most subdued, Wakana is the most energetic, Tsurara is the most overprotective - but there’s still a general trend. This outward weakness is something Setsura initially looks down on, but comes to understand their hidden capabilities: Youhime has healing powers and an unexpected assertive side, Otome helps out at the school and the clan despite not needing to as well as having to deal with a husband who’s constantly away, Wakana was able to bring Rihan’s smile back, and Tsurara became Rikuo’s head aide. That’s not to say that they’re *superior* to best girl, but they have a lot they can bring to the table as well, and she had to realize that.

A Ceylan for fun but with some extra little wintery things added to his outfit to match with his elemental power 💙❄

several other such strange coincidences also exist. For instance, Saitō Toshimitsu once served Mitsuhide. His daughter, Ofuku, eventually became Iemitsu's wet nurse (Lady Kasuga). Before she served the Tokugawa clan, she was said to have visited Tenkai. Her first words to him were allegedly, "It's been a long time since we last met" Now, personally, I don't think Tenkai and Mitsuhide are the same person. Their ages don't match up well. However, I do very strongly believe that Tenkai was likely a nephew of Mitsuhide or MAYBE, JUST MAYBE a son. After Mitsuhide's death most of the Akechi clan was murdered and their clan's name was considered taboo. It would make sense that one of them would go into hiding and use another name.

I’d like to start with stating this is a facts tumblr. We aren’t going to dive too much into rumors here. Also, when we do dive into rumors we are going to also attempt to dive into facts surrounding these rumors. So, I am going to go ahead and add a rumors tag to these kinds of posts. Now with that said let us dive in! In a lot of modern pop culture a famou rumor is often discussed. The rumor that the infamous Akechi Mitsuhide, the man who killed Oda Nobunaga, and then was killed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, is actually the mysterious monk Tenkai! Mitsuhide never really died!  For those of you who aren’t familiar with this the general Oda Nobunaga had a general beneath him named Akechi Mitsuhide. When Nobunaga set up camp in Kyoto and sent most of his forces East and West to conquer the rest of Japan his general Akechi Mitsuhide betrayed and killed Nobunaga. A few days later Nobunaga’s general Hideyoshi showed up, defeated Mitsuhide in the battle of Yamazaki, and forced Mitsuhide to flee. As he retreated he was allegedly killed by either peasants trying to scavenge a battlefield, or by bandits. History gets a bit fuzzy here. Now since history gets fuzzy here some people say that Mitsuhide never even died. He actually fled and eventually resurfaced as the monk Tenkai who served Tokugawa Ieyasu (no Sengoku Basara fans, Tenkai didn’t serve Kobayakawa Hideaki. I’m sorry they lied to you.).   So why do people say this? Well here are a few reasons. 1.  Supposedly Tenkai greeted some people that knew Mitsuhide not as strangers but as old friends. 2.  Supposedly people that knew Mitsuhide greeted Tenkai like an old friend. 3.  Supposedly Tenkai donated quite a bit of money to a family shrine of the Akechi Clan in hopes of restoring it. Obviously you wouldn’t do this if you weren’t an Akechi clan member or owed some considerable debt to the Akechi clan. It would be like a Shimazu donating money to a Hojo linked shrine. It wouldn’t make sense. 4. Supposedly Mitsuhide and Tenkai looked quite similar.  5. Quite frankly, people just don’t like accepting that famous people have died and we all love a juicy rumor. In modern times you still have people that swear famous figures such as JFK, Elvis, and Tupac are alive. Its hard to accept that famous people die sometimes.  Now, in my opinion, Mitsuhide died at or shortly after Yamazaki. Mitsuhide was a bit old and most people in the area knew him. Also he came from a fairly good upbringing and I don’t see any way he could have “blended in” with the common man. In fact one of the reasons he and Nobunaga supposedly didn’t get along was because Mitsuhide acted too much like a noble. Also, Hideyoshi was a pretty thorough guy when it came to locking in power. No way exists that he would have stopped looking for Mitsuhide until he was certain Mitsuhide was dead. After all, avenging Nobunaga was his entire shtick while taking over the Oda clan. Then, finally, we have to consider ages of Tenkai and Mitsuhide. Mitsuhide was born in 1528 (roughly) so by the time Sekigahara rolled around he would have been 72, and by the time Osaka was besieged he’d have been a staggering 87 years old! Yet we have records of Tenkai serving the Tokugawa in the year 1624-1625. Personally, I don’t see the Shogunate asking a 96 year old man to go establish and bless new temples, nor do I see anyone from the Sengoku era actually living to be 96 in the first place.   Supposing, however, that the completely unfounded rumors of people treating Tenkai like a well known person when first meeting him and that he felt strongly attached to the Akechi clan are true, I am willing to believe that Tenkai may be a son or nephew of Mitsuhide. For all the devilish, manipulative things Tokugawa Ieyasu did deep down he was a sucker for saving families and clans from extinction. If you don’t believe me just look up athe history of the Imagawa clan after Yoshimoto’s death or the Oda clan after Nobunaga’s death and look at what clan the remnants of both end up serving. Heck, even look at the clans that sided with Mitsuhide himself and who those clans ended up siding with at Sekigahara and beyond!  I know this was a long post diving deep into rumors, and I have a second one planned for this weekend about Ieyasu himself but I hope all of you enjoyed it. Have a lovely weekend guys.