Also, Yorishige has a bunch of limitations. He's at his most powerful around the shrine, and reading volume 5 I can see that in this episode we saw him at his strongest for now, he's far from all-powerful and in later events will have a far smaller role. It's also nice to see that they cut background explanations and lore in favor of focusing on the matters at hand, the events. It's a good sign.
As an aside, each manga volume comes with 8-10 pages at the end of historical information about the setting written by Matsui's consultant,
Kazuto Hongo. A lot of what it contains is real events, such as bringing up the shortcomings of the Kenmu Restoration, with an interesting comparison to the Qin and the H- OH SHIT I JUST TURBO SPOILED MYSELF BY THE READING THE ACTUAL HISTORY OH WOW.
Huh.
Alright, I-
Hmm. Hmmmm.
Hmmmmmmmmmm. I'll see what I do with this tomorrow.