After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.
御運が開けましたな。
Military Strategists
Kuroda Yoshitaka
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's chief strategist and the architect of his greatest victories (1546-1604). Kuroda Kanbei was so brilliant that both Hideyoshi and later Tokugawa Ieyasu feared his intellect, making him the rare advisor who was too capable for his own political safety — Japan's answer to Zhuge Liang.
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