Shimosaka Sagen and a force of 300 Iga ninjas await Kanetsugu at the cemetery of Mount Koya. Though Kanetsugu and party seem to be doomed, his secret scheme proves efficacious. Sagen decides to reject his affiliation with Tokugawa, and determines to fight Kanetsugu one on one. KanetsuguÕs actions are strange; he takes an iron fan in hand, and begins to dance. The battle for the Jizo Bodhisattva, which contains critical secrets of Uesugi, comes to its righteous conclusion.
Factions would have been formed 
in favor of Kagekatsu-dono
pour la succession du clan
 entre les partisans de Kagekatsu et les tiens.
Duas facções dividiriam a nação ao meio,