The Island of Miyajima is better promoted and known for its serene scenic beauty, but it is historically significant for one of the most dramatic battle scenes of the Sengoku era, the Battle of Miyajima, which involved drastically outnumbered forces, pirate action and an amphibious castle assault in the crazy cover of a wild storm. Read about it here through the reblogged post by the Pirates of Asia blog…
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When I was little I used to play games involving pirates, ships etc but have you, ever wondered how the real pirates looks like? Or do they have the same type of personality like in pirate games? Or are they bad criminals like how people think? Well, I will be talking about a sea lord who controlled a band of pirates to achieve his political ends, and who is a famous hero in Japan.
Mori Motonari
The painting above shows how he looked. Not pirate-like or angry at all. He was said to be a diplomat and to like poetry. In other words, he was rather gentleman-like and cultured and had manners..
Mori Motonari(毛利 元就) was a feudal lord (1497~1571) in the western Chugoku region during sengoku period of the 16th century. The Mori clan claimed descended from Ōe no Hiromoto (大江広元), an adviser to Minamoto Yoritomo. Motonari is known…
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