Who Is Saito Tatsuoki (Tatsuoki Saito)?
The young lord who lost his castle and Mino
Saito Tatsuoki was a Sengoku-period warlord of Mino Province (today's southern Gifu Prefecture) and the grandson of Saito Dosan. He inherited the family headship at a young age after the death of his father, Yoshitatsu. His home base was Inabayama Castle, and he came under repeated attack from Oda Nobunaga of neighboring Owari.
In this manga he appears as the lord of Mino, fighting the Oda side. His retainer Takenaka Hanbei seizes his castle with only a handful of men, and although it is later returned, he loses Inabayama Castle in 1567, partly because the Mino Triumvirate has gone over to Nobunaga, and he is driven out of Mino. Whether his name appears in the Taikoki's Sunomata section has not yet been confirmed.
Even after losing Mino, he kept resisting Nobunaga in various places. He is said to have died in battle in 1573 while with the Asakura clan in Echizen Province, in his mid-twenties.
Episodes featuring this character2
NEWEpisode 3
Build a Castle Before the Enemy WakesThe One-Night Castle of Sunomata
Everyone laughs when Tokichiro volunteers to build a castle the enemy keeps tearing down, right under their noses. His answer: don't build it, ship it, with river men and carpenters on his side. On the big night he must choose between a raft of castle parts and a man swept away, and his choice steals the enemy's morning.
21 pages
NEWEpisode 4
16 Men Took a Castle. He Gave It Back.Takenaka Hanbei
A man took a castle with just sixteen followers, inexplicably gave it back, and vanished into the mountains. Hideyoshi keeps climbing up to recruit him, but every compliment and gift is called out before he can use it. On his third visit, out of tricks, he offers the one thing he has left: his own weakness.
19 pages