![]() Basically, imagine Helm’s Deep from the second Lord of the Rings movie, and you would be close. The garrison held out against the giant army for over a week. But Mototada probably said the Japanese equivalent of, “take my sword from my cold dead fingers”, and ordered his tiny garrison to attack an army twenty times its size. In 1600, an army of 40,000 men approached Fushimi castle, and they fully expected the commander of the tiny garrison would surrender and commit seppuku or ritual suicide. ![]() ![]() Torii Mototada was the commander of what is often referred to as Japan’s own Alamo.
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