Itagaki Nobukata

Shingen is a popular Sengoku Jidai warlord, of whom a lot of written stories are dedicated (either dramatized fiction or factual). Here is one example of Shingen in dramatization. After becoming Daimyo in Kai, Shingen successfully repelled the combined forces of Suwa and Ogasawari, who tried to take advantage of the young lord. Shingen, who was still a teenager, started to enjoy the fruit he fought so hard for, forgetting his duty and thus becoming arrogant and lazy. He held grand parties for his generals and had Chinese poetry ...

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Takeda Shingen, Takeda Shingen - Note on the name, Takeda Shingen - Life, Takeda Shingen - Initial Expansion, Takeda Shingen - Pause in Growth, Takeda Shingen - Renewed Expansion, Takeda Shingen - Final Conflict, Takeda Shingen - After Death, Takeda Shingen - Story of Shingen and Itagaki, Takeda Shingen - Retainers, Takeda Shingen - Takeda Shingen in fiction and drama, Takeda Shingen - The festival in Japan

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Takeda Shingen was born under the name of "Takeda Katsuchiyo". He took the name of "Takeda Harunobu" at his coming of age ceremony, and in the year of 1551 changed his name once again, this time to the well-known "Takeda Shingen". This article will note such name changes, but will primarily be using the name of "Takeda Shingen" to help avoid any confusion on the issue. Shingen is sometimes referred to as "The Tiger of Kai" (Kai being the Takeda home province) due to his fearsome martial art skills on the battlefield. His rival, Uesugi ...

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Takeda Shingen, Takeda Shingen - Note on the name, Takeda Shingen - Life, Takeda Shingen - Initial Expansion, Takeda Shingen - Pause in Growth, Takeda Shingen - Renewed Expansion, Takeda Shingen - Final Conflict, Takeda Shingen - After Death, Takeda Shingen - Story of Shingen and Itagaki, Takeda Shingen - Retainers, Takeda Shingen - Takeda Shingen in fiction and drama, Takeda Shingen - The festival in Japan

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Takeda Katsuyori took control of the Takeda. Katsuyori was ambitious and desired to continue the legacy of his father. He moved on to take Tokugawa forts. However an allied force of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga dealt a crushing blow to the Takeda in the Battle of Nagashino. Here Oda Nobunaga's gunmen destroyed the Takeda cavalry. Ieyasu seized the opportunity and defeated the weak Takeda led by Takeda Katsuyori in the battle of Tenmokuzan. Katsuyori committed suicide after the ba ...

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Takeda Shingen, Takeda Shingen - Note on the name, Takeda Shingen - Life, Takeda Shingen - Initial Expansion, Takeda Shingen - Pause in Growth, Takeda Shingen - Renewed Expansion, Takeda Shingen - Final Conflict, Takeda Shingen - After Death, Takeda Shingen - Story of Shingen and Itagaki, Takeda Shingen - Retainers, Takeda Shingen - Takeda Shingen in fiction and drama, Takeda Shingen - The festival in Japan

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The 1988 NHK Taiga drama television series Takeda Shingen was a fictionalized account of his life with Nakai Kiichi in the title role. Akira Kurosawa's 1980 movie Kagemusha was also inspired by his life; it brought the musket-wound theory to public attention outside Japan. Takeda Shingen appears in Toshiro Mifune's historical movie Samurai Banners (風林火山 Furin Kazan). The film is a depiction of the life of Shingen advisor Yamamoto Kansuke from 1545-1562. In this movie it i ...

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Takeda Shingen, Takeda Shingen - Note on the name, Takeda Shingen - Life, Takeda Shingen - Initial Expansion, Takeda Shingen - Pause in Growth, Takeda Shingen - Renewed Expansion, Takeda Shingen - Final Conflict, Takeda Shingen - After Death, Takeda Shingen - Story of Shingen and Itagaki, Takeda Shingen - Retainers, Takeda Shingen - Takeda Shingen in fiction and drama, Takeda Shingen - The festival in Japan

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Born Takeda Katsuchiyo, he was the eldest son of Takeda Nobutora, an impressive warlord. He helped his father in many of the older Takeda's undertakings, and became quite valuable in the clan at a fairly young age. However, at some point in his life following his "coming of age" ceremony (where he changed his name to Takeda Harunobu) the young man rebelled against his father and took control of the Takeda clan. The events surrounding this change of leadership are not entirely clear, but it is speculated for the most part that his fath ...

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Takeda Shingen, Takeda Shingen - Note on the name, Takeda Shingen - Life, Takeda Shingen - Initial Expansion, Takeda Shingen - Pause in Growth, Takeda Shingen - Renewed Expansion, Takeda Shingen - Final Conflict, Takeda Shingen - After Death, Takeda Shingen - Story of Shingen and Itagaki, Takeda Shingen - Retainers, Takeda Shingen - Takeda Shingen in fiction and drama, Takeda Shingen - The festival in Japan

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