Takeda Yoshinobu

Takeda Yoshinobu ( Japanese 武田 義 信 ; * 1538 ; † November 19, 1567 ) was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period .

Life

He was named Takeda Tarō ( 武田 太郎 ) the firstborn son of Takeda Shingen and his wife Sanjō . When he came of age in 1550, he took the name Yoshinobu , where he received formally and solemnly the part of Yoshi from the 13th Ashikaga - Shogun , Ashikaga Yoshiteru , when he was ordained as the adult foreseen heir of the Takeda . In 1552 he married the daughter of Imagawa Yoshimoto (sister of Imagawa Ujizane ); Both heads of the Imagawa , to improve relations with the Imagawa. At first he served as a troop leader to his father Takeda Shingen and the Takeda clan ,

In 1553 he took under the command of his uncle Takeda Nobushige in the Shinano province, the Katsurao castle of the neighboring Murakami clan under Murakami Yoshikiyo . He also took part in the fourth of the Battles of Kawanakajima ; however, rebelled, was captured and imprisoned with Obu Toramasa . His nephew, Takeda Nobukatsu , son of his half-brother Katsuyori , was then recognized as the heir of Takeda Shingen. Eventually, when Katsuyori became head of the house, he continued to pressurize the captured Yoshinobu, driving him to suicide in atonement for his rebellion.

Appear in the media

Yoshinobu also appears in the Japanese TV drama about Takeda Shingen

• Fūrinkazan (there are several film adaptations of the novel by Yasushi Inoue by NHK)
• in historical novels like Yasushi Inoues The Samurai Banner of FuRinKaZan
• and Samurai 1550-1600 ;
• Stories like The Samurai's Tale as one of the main characters
• The Boy and the Samurai and

See also

• 24 generals

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George Bailey Sansom: A History of Japan: 1334-1615. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1961, ISBN 0-8047-0525-9 .
2. ↑ Takeda Shingen. on: samurai-archives.com
3. ↑ Sogobujutsu. P. 232 (at Google E-Books under: [1] )
4. ↑ Stephen R Turnbull, Christa Hook: Kawanakajima 1553-1564 - Samurai Power Struggle. Osprey Publishing, 2003, ISBN 1-84176-562-7 . The order of battle graph shows that he served as a formation commander, penultimate graph on Google E-Books.
5. ↑ http://www.samurai-archives.com/time2.html (see 1565)
6. ↑ http://www.samurai-archives.com/takedatime.html
7. ↑ Thomas Lonis, Tommy Ito: Samurai - The Code of the Warrior. P. 55, on which reference is made to Katsuyori's contribution.
8. ↑ Samurai 1550-1600, Orsprey Verlag, with a woodcut of his Seppuku file, ISBN 978-1-85532-345-2 .
9. ^ Erik Christian Haugaard: The Samurai's Tale. ISBN 0-618-61512-1 .
10. ^ Erik Christian Haugaard: The Boy and the Samurai. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1991, ISBN 0-618-61511-3 .

literature

• Bernd Schacht: Takeda Shingen's first campaign. Humboldt Uni Berlin, OCLC 648863947 . (PDF from Humboldt-Uni via Takeda Shingen, p. 5, note 16)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Takeda is the family name, Yoshinobu the first name.