Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen
The Twenty-Four Generals (武田二十四将) were just one of many historically famous groupings of battle commanders from Japan's Sengoku Period. These Twenty-Four were the most trusted commanders of the armies of Takeda Shingen. A third of them died at the famous Battle of Nagashino in 1575 when they led the Takeda forces against Oda Nobunaga. (more)
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Genres: politics
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Seven Spears of Shizugatake:
The Seven Spears of Shizugatake were the top generals of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who sought to control Japan at the end of the 16th century. They were all members of Hideyoshi's elite mounted bodyguard at the Battle of Shizugatake in 1583. It is interest
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Takeda Shingen:
Takeda Shingen In 1559, his name was changed again (this time by his own will) to the well-known Takeda Shingen. Shin is the contemporary Chinese pronunciation of the character nobu, which means "believe"; gen means "black", the color of intelligence
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Battle of Nagashino:
The Battle of Nagashino took place in 1575 at Nagashino Castle in the Mikawa province of Japan. The castle had been under siege by Takeda Katsuyori since the 17th of June; Okudaira Sadamasa, a Tokugawa vassal, commanded the defending force. The castl
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Yamamoto Kansuke:
Yamamoto Kansuke (1501 - October 18, 1561) was a Japanese samurai of the 16th century who was one of Takeda Shingen's most trusted Twenty-Four Generals. Also known by his formal name, Haruyuki (晴幸). 武田家臣団人事ファイル 山本晴幸(山本勘助) He was a brilliant strategis
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Baba Nobuharu:
Baba Nobuharu, also known as Baba Nobufusa, was a samurai of Japan's Sengoku period and one of Takeda Shingen's so-called "Twenty-Four Generals"; they were his most trusted commanders. Baba fought at the battles of Mikatagahara and Nagashino, where h
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Obata Masamori:
Obata Masamori (小幡昌盛)(1534–March 29, 1582), also known as Obata Nobusada, was one of Takeda Shingen's 'Twenty-four Generals', his most trusted commanders. He was the son of Obata Toramori, and came from western Kozuke province. He fled Kozuke and joi
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Itagaki Nobukata:
Itagaki Nobukata(板垣信方, d. March 23, 1548) was a retainer of the Takeda family. His name is also seen with different kanji as 信形. Nobukata served under both Takeda Nobutora and Takeda Shingen and also was tasked with young Shingen. When on 1541 Nobuto
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Kōsaka Masanobu:
(b. 1527 d. 1578) was one of Takeda Shingen's most loyal retainers, and one of his 'Twenty-Four Generals' during the Sengoku period of Japan. He is often credited as the original author of Kōyō Gunkan, which records the history of the Takeda family a
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Amari Torayasu:
Amari Torayasu(d. 1548) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, and served the Takeda clan under Takeda Nobutora and Shingen. Amari was a shukurō, or clan elder, following Shingen's accession to family headship, and was one of Takeda Shingen's
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Obu Toramasa:
Obu Toramasa was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, who served the Takeda clan. Toramasa supported Takeda Nobukado as a retainer of distinction. With Nobukado's death and the succession of his son, Shingen, Toramasa became a man well recognize
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Anayama Nobukimi:
Anayama Nobukimi (d. 1582), also known as Baisetsu Nobukimi, was a Japanese samurai. He was a nephew of Takeda Shingen, and one of his Twenty-Four Generals. He fought for his uncle at the Battle of Kawanakajima (1561), the Battle of Mikatagahara (157
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Hara Masatane:
Hara Masatane was a senior retainer of the Takeda clan during the late Sengoku period of Japanese history. Masatane was related partially by blood to his fellow Takeda general, Hara Toratane, but belonged to a separate family branches, though the two
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Obata Toramori:
Obata Toramori was a retainer of the Takeda clan throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Toramori acted as one of the primary supporters of Takeda Nobutora when he enlisted himself with the Takeda forces; and after many years of mutual
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Tsuchiya Masatsugu:
Tsuchiya Masatsugu was a senior retainer beneath the clan of Takeda throughout the late Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. With the death of Kanamaru Torayoshi--Masatsugu's legitimate father--Masatsugu began to support Takeda Shingen with even greater f
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Yokota Takatoshi:
Yokota Takatoshi was a retainer beneath the Takeda clan throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As Takayoshi surmisably assisted Takeda Shingen initially at the time at which he began his mutual service beneath the Takeda flag, Takayosh
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Ichijō Nobutatsu:
Ichijō Nobutatsu was a younger brother and retainer to Takeda Shingen throughout the late Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. Even though being the legitimate brother to Shingen, Nobutatsu was risen by a separate mother around the time of his initial bir
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