Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen
- 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.
The Twenty-Five Generals
*Akiyama Nobutomo - involved in invasion of Shinano Province
*Amari Torayasu - d. Battle of Uedahara 1548
*Anayama Nobukimi - following Mikatagahara and Nagashino, allied with Tokugawa Ieyasu and aided in defeat of Takeda Katsuyori
*Baba Nobuharu - fought at Mikatagahara and commanded vanguard of the right wing of Takeda army at Nagashino, where he died.
*Hara Masatane - d. Battle of Nagashino 1575
*Hara Toratane
*Ichijō Nobutatsu - younger brother to Shingen, fought at Nagashino
*Itagaki Nobukata - d. Battle of Uedahara 1548
*Kōsaka Danjō Masanobu - played a major role in the fourth battle of Kawanakajima, but was not present at Nagashino
*Naitō Masatoyo
*Obata Toramori - d. 1561, is recorded as having been wounded 40 times in 30 encounters
*Obata Masamori - led the largest contingent (500 cavalry in the center company) at Nagashino
*Obu Toramasa
*Ohama Kagetaka - Pirate General for Takeda Shingen, d. 1597
*Oyamada Nobushige - fought at Kawanakajima, Mikatagahara, and Nagashino
*Saigusa Moritomo - d. Nagashino 1575
*Sanada Yukitaka - "daimyō" of Shinano Province who submitted to Shingen
*Sanada Nobutsuna - d. Nagashino 1575
*Tada Mitsuyori
*Takeda Nobushige - younger brother to Shingen, d. fourth battle of Kawanakajima 1561
*Takeda Nobukado - brother to Shingen, d. 1575
*Tsuchiya Masatsugu - fought at Mikatagahara, d. Nagashino 1575; his sons followed Takeda Katsuyori until his death at Temmokuzan in 1582
*Yamagata Masakage - fought at Mikatagahara and Yoshida, d. Nagashino 1575
*Yamamoto Kansuke - strategist of fourth battle of Kawanakajima, died in that battle
*Yokota Takatoshi - d. Siege of Toishi 1550
References
*Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.
ee also
*Seven Spears of Shizugatake
*Twenty-Eight Generals of Uesugi Kenshin
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