The Chronicle
foundingThe country has had no governing centre for a century, and this summer the fiction of order is being tested in the east, where the Imagawa have marched twenty-five thousand men into Owari against a house with perhaps three thousand. Everywhere else the balance is tighter than it has been in a generation — the Mōri pressing the Amago for the Iwami silver, the Nagao and Hōjō circling the Kantō, the Miyoshi reaching for Kawachi — and any one of these quarrels could draw in neighbours who are presently only watching.
the powersMōri: Mōri Motonari's house, fresh from destroying the Ōuchi, holds Bingo, Aki, Suō and Nagato with a kokudaka of 679,000 and a levy of 17,000, and looks east toward the Amago's silver at Iwami.
the powersAmago: Amago Haruhisa commands five provinces including the Iwami silver mine from the near-impregnable Gassan-Toda, a kokudaka of 591,000 and a levy of 14,800, and means to keep every grain of that silver from the Mōri.
the powersImagawa: Imagawa Yoshimoto, greatest lord of the Tōkaidō, has marched some twenty-five thousand men out of Suruga to break the Oda and finish securing Owari behind his Mikawa vanguard.
the powersHōjō: Hōjō Ujiyasu's Odawara rules the richest, best-surveyed country in the east at a kokudaka of 931,000 with 22,000 men under arms, and is closing the siege of Kururi against the Satomi.
the powersTakeda: Takeda Shingen, lord of Kai and nearly all Shinano, musters 15,900 men off a kokudaka of 636,000 and is building Kaizu castle to hold the Chikuma line against the Nagao.
the powersMiyoshi: Miyoshi Nagayoshi governs the capital region in all but name from Akutagawa-yama with the largest levy in the record at 30,000 off a kokudaka of 1,493,000, and is turning that strength on Hatakeyama Takamasa in Kawachi.
the powersŌtomo: Ōtomo Yoshishige, the Shogun's appointed governor of six Kyūshū provinces, draws on a kokudaka of 1,411,000 and a levy of 35,300, trading guns and silver through the Portuguese at Funai while holding Moji against Mōri ambition.
the powersKitabatake: Kitabatake Tomonori, a court house turned warlord, holds Ise and Shima with a kokudaka of 585,000 and 14,600 men, prestige greater than its army, and reaches for the forty-eight independent houses of northern Ise.
your standingYou hold Bingo, Aki, Suō and Nagato — a kokudaka of 679,000, a population of 405,000, a levy of 17,000 men, and a house at 72 stability, the strongest footing you have had since Itsukushima. To your east the Amago sit on the Iwami silver at Gassan-Toda and mean to keep it; to your south the Kōno of Iyo are divided and watching the sea lords; your ally Mimura in Bitchū is still only half-master of his own province. Nothing compels you to move this season, but the silver, the straits, and the loyalty of the Murakami fleets are all still open questions, and every house around you is making its own answer.