A historical reinterpretation
Betrayal as Strategy
Kobayakawa Hideaki and the Game Theory of Sekigahara
Sekigahara, 1600: was the betrayal that decided Japan's future actually the rational move?
In 1600, the armies of Japan met at Sekigahara to settle who would rule the country. The winner's house would govern for the next two and a half centuries. On a hill above the field sat Kobayakawa Hideaki, eighteen years old, with 8,000 men. Soon after the fighting began, he turned on the side he had marched with, and the battle was over within hours. History remembers him as a traitor who could not make up his mind. This novel keeps every event as the sources record it — and asks whether he had in fact made up his mind long before.
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