The Enkyou period in Memory of Enkyou refers to the period of 1744-1747

technically it was still under the Edo period and thus Tokugawa rule

in the fourth year of Enkyou (1747) the daimyo of Kumamoto-han Hosokawa Munetaka was assassinated by another hatamoto Itakura Katsukane

he got stabbed with a wakizashi near the bathroom

some say he mistook Munekata for the Itakura daimyo Katsukiyo because the Itakura and Hosokawa has similar crests

because Munetaka had no heir the Hosokawa would have the possibility of losing their territory

which included Higo province which was worth about 54 thousand koku

It just so happened that the hero of the story Date Munemura (Sendai-han daimyo) was there to save them

he said It looks like he's still breathing, bring him back to your manor quickly to the servants

The Hosokawas managed to fake Munekata remaining alive long enough to adopt his nephew Norio as his son and declare him as the heir

and thus keep their lands and possessions

Ohhh thanks for this info! I saw the map and was like lol what. Question, how would interfering in this time affect majorly history? At first glance it didn't seem like a huge deal nationwide.

saisei we can pray for more CCP screentime

seimeinotaka It's really hard to say, since we wouldn't know what Munetaka would do if he remained alive, or what if the right person got murdered.

Norio aka Hosokawa Shigekata did make radical economic reforms in Kumamoto-han to improve its financial status

Grand history wise a probable result is Kumamoto becoming poorer, more unhappiness and maybe would spark open revolts against the Edo Shogunate earlier

Since the Sankin Koutai was a reason why the Kumamoto han's financial status got worse

It may be kind of lame compared to changing the outcome of battles or assassinating someone important but there is the butterfly effect

I actually find that a minor change in something becoming part of something major more interesting than changing a battle or assassinating a big name

I feel it's more profound because it would drive a point further of not messing with the past because you can't tell the consequences of even sth like respecting someone's time on the toilet

Yeah, the unpredictability is what's most fascinating about changing even a small part of history

A Philosophy professor once talked about a British soldier who decided to spare a German soldier's life in WWI

And said soldier eventually became Hitler