Katsuyori Takeda

(1546 - April 3rd 1582) was a Samurai Japan board of the time Sengoku, famous as chief of the Clan Takeda and successor of his father, the lord of war and Daimyo Shingen Takeda. He was the son Shingen and of the girl of Suwa Yorishige. He had in particular like child, Nobukatsu Takeda and Katsuchika Takeda.

Katsuyori, known first of all under the name of Suwa Shirō Katsuyori (諏訪四郎勝頼), succeeded his/her mother with the head of the Clan Suwa and made Takatō castle the seat of its field. After the death of his/her older brother Yoshinobu Takeda, Nobukatsu, wire of Katsuyori, became the heir to the clan Takeda, making de facto Katsuyori chief of the Takeda clan. It dealt with the family after the death of Shingen and fought Ieyasu Tokugawa with the Bataille of Takatenjin in 1574 and with the Bataille of Nagashino in 1575. It captured Takatenjin, which even his/her father could not make and thus obtained the support of the Takeda clan.

Katsuyori attracted itself the ire of the Hōjō clan by helping Kagekatsu Uesugi against Kagetora Uesugi which was the seventh wire of Ujiyasu Hōjō, adopted by Kenshin Uesugi to which he was the heir.

Katsuyori lost Takatenjin in 1581 and incidentally the support of the clans Kiso and Anayama. Its forces were destroyed by the armies combined of Nobunaga Oda and Ieyasu Tokugawa with the Bataille of Temmokuzan in 1582, demolished after which Katsuyori and its son committed suicide, by seppuku.

Rumors affirm that Nobunaga Oda was charmed to see decapitated Katsuyori, since the Takeda clan always had was his larger rival.

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