History

San-eiketsu: The Three Unifiers

There is a famous set of poems in Japan. Each one asks the same question: what do you do when the cuckoo will not sing? Oda Nobunaga answered: kill it. Toyotomi Hideyoshi answered: make it sing. Tokugawa Ieyasu answered: wait. These three men are known as the san-eiketsu (三英傑), the three great heroes. …