Takeda had extensive training in several martial arts (including Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū and Sumo) and referred to the style he taught as "Daitō-ryū" (literally, "Great Eastern School"). Although the school's traditions claim to…
Ashikaga Yoshiharu ( 足利 義晴; April 2, 1511 – May 20, 1550) was the twelfth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate from 1521 through 1546 during the late Muromachi period of Japan. [1 ] He was the son of the eleventh shōgun Ashikaga Yoshizumi…
The influential cartoonist hits his stride as he celebrates the charms and oddities of rural postwar culture Yoshiharu Tsuge leaves early genre trappings behin...
Takeda Katsuyori ( 武田 勝頼; 1546 – 11 March 1582) was a Japanese daimyō (military lord) of the Sengoku period, who was famed as the head of the Takeda clan and the successor to the legendary warlord Takeda Shingen.
Takeda Nobuyoshi ( 武田 信吉; October 18, 1583 – October 15, 1603) was a Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period. He was the son of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Oyamada Nobushige ( 小山田 信茂; 1545 – April 16, 1582) was a Japanese samurai general in the Takeda army under Takeda Shingen, and later under Takeda Katsuyori. [1 ] He was known as one of the "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen".