Author: Dr. Johan Mahyudi, M.Pd. The earliest pages of Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Taiko contain a map of imperial Japan in the 16th century, a model for calculating day-night time according to traditional Japanese clocks and an important account of the philosophies of three commanders who all wanted to unite Japan, but differed on how to do so. Their different philosophies were long ago immortalized by the Japanese in a rhyme known to every schoolchild in Japan. The rhyme reads: What if a bird won't sing? Nobunaga replied, "Kill it!" Hideyoshi replied, "Make the bird want to chirp." leyasu replied, [...]