Samurai Banners — Season 1, Episode 46: March into Kanto
Drama, War & Politics • 50 min • 2 seasons, 54 episodes • ★ 7.6/10
Episode synopsis
In 1560, Kagetora advances onto Kanto defeating Hojo in order to restore the Kanto area. Around the same time, Yu and Harunobu's son Shiro celebrates the coming of age and assumes Suwa's surname. Warlords of Kanto gather around Kagetora to take his side which soon numbers to 100,000 forces. Usami fears Kagetora's arrogance. The troops led by Kagetora surrounds the impregnable Odawara Castle, the strategic point of the Hojo clan. Kagetora decides to take over as the head of the Uesugi Family, and changes his name to Masatora Uesugi.
About Samurai Banners
Fūrin Kazan was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007. The four characters from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. It means "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain."