He was described as wretched, with one eye clouded and one foot disabled, but he was born with keen insight and careful thinking. He was unknown in the first half of his life. After he turned fifty, he was worshiped as a military advisor by Takeda Shingen. He rose to prominence and was invincible in a hundred battles. However, deep in the depths of ambition and paranoia, there is always a lingering figure of a woman.
In the first month of the fourteenth year of Tenmon (1545), Takeda Shingen sent his troops to attack Suwa. On the night when the city was destroyed, Yamamoto Kansuke walked into the burning hall alone. What appeared in front of him were the absent-minded eyes of Suwa Yorishige's daughter Yubuki. That year, he was fifty-two years old and she was fifteen.
On September 10th, the fourth year of Eiroku (1561), the mountains of Shinano River were shaken by shouts of killing, and swords, spears, swords and halberds covered the clouds and blocked the sun. Kansuke was on the battlefield and experienced the calmest moment in his life. At this time, he was sixty-eight years old, and she had been dead for six years...
Admiration is like the falling petals; my heart is like the dark forest. Strategies and plans, battles and killings are all for a watch that spans half a lifetime and is at a loss.
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Even though Kansuke did everything he could, in the end Takeda Katsuyori didn't become what he hoped for. Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, Oda Nobunaga
Even though Kansuke did everything he could, in the end Takeda Katsuyori didn't become what he hoped for. Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, Oda Nobunaga