Heya! This might be sorta obscure, but might you have anything at all about Nobukatsu (Kanjurou)'s own immediate family? I only know what jpwiki has put for Nobuzumi, Nobutada (not the heir son one), and Nobukane, their own kids/wives; what became two of the sons and their whereabouts, but that's about it. Do any of the anecdotes have any tangibility of credibility in source and is there anything more about them? Also, is there anything on what happened to Kanjurou's wife?
Regrettably, I do not. I have trouble finding detailed info on even Nobunaga's children, much more so his siblings'.
The trouble here is that a lot of the information are in books, and not available online. This makes them hard to access, appraise, or find. If you see the citations on Wiki, sometimes even a short page can have 10 books cited. On a hobbyist level, it's very hard to collect the necessary info.
What anecdotes are you referring to, by the way?
Reblogging since it’d be easier. That’s unfortunate, but definitely understandable. On that note, I want to say you’re doing incredible work with all these reliable-ish resourceful posts with sources. It’s been really helpful having something like this in one place. Even on a hobby level.
As for the anecdotes on the validity of them, I saw these on Wikipedia a while ago and I was intrigued by them. Mostly the two accounts agreeing on Tsuda Nobuzumi’s character as a person being “brave but unusually cruel” (since it’s one of the very few things I’ve come across that portrays an Oda clan member in a very negative light in that vein - aside Nobunaga’s 2nd son, Nobukatsu, being a mixed bag). It did make me wonder if Luis Frois was just biased towards Nobutaka to add further justification of him murdering Nobuzumi besides just suspecting him for possibly having been in cahoots with Akechi Mitsuhide’s plans, especially with the ‘people wanted Nobuzumi dead anyway’ using the Honnoji Incident as a potential additional catalyst for Nobutaka wanting him gone?
Granted, it’s rather speculative for the most part so it’s hard to proper refute nor hard confirm anything with how records work, but still. I was curious if you might know more about it or if the Japanese had any thoughts/theories.
I just personally found it kinda “huh” considering, if it’s true, he was Nobunaga’s right-hand man and was high up in his family hierarchy at 5th spot behind the eldest sons and 1-2 uncles (so he must’ve been well-regarded by Nobunaga despite what happened with Kanjurou).
