Film
editKagemusha (影武者) is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa. The title (literally "Shadow Warrior" in Japanese) is a term used for an impersonator. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. The warlord whom the kagemusha impersonates is based on daimyo Takeda Shingen, and the film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.
Other
editDaimyo
edit- Oda Nobunaga (1534-82)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
Other notable daimyo
edit- Azai Nagamasa
- Chōsokabe Motochika
- Date Masamune
- Hōjō Sōun
- Imagawa Yoshimoto
- Katō Kiyomasa
- Maeda Toshiie
- Miyoshi Nagayoshi
- Mōri Motonari
- Ōtomo Sōrin
- Saitō Dōsan
- Sanada Masayuki
- Shimazu Yoshihiro
- Takeda Shingen
- Uesugi Kenshin
- Ukita Hideie
Other notable individuals
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- Kamiizumi Nobutsuna
- Akechi Mitsuhide
- Fukushima Masanori
- Fūma Kotarō
- Hattori Hanzō
- Honda Tadakatsu
- Ii Naomasa
- Ishida Mitsunari
- Katō Kiyomasa
- Maeda Keiji
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Mori Ranmaru
- Naoe Kanetsugu
- Oda Nobutada
- Saika Magoichi
- Sanada Yukimura
- Sasaki Kojirō
- Shibata Katsuie
- Shima Sakon
- Nōhime
- Oichi
- Nene
- Komatsuhime
- Hosokawa Gracia