
Originally Posted by
Koga No Goshi
I have to admit that I think Takeda Shingen is one of the most overrated people in feudal history. I'm a huge Japanese history buff, and I just never understood why he's such an admiration-grabber from the west. He was feared, he was a good civil leader, he definitely had a fearsome reputation. He also spent his entire life conquering about as much land as the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, eventually got hemmed in, and his son lost all of it in a matter of years.
I never understood why Takeda Shingen is held up so highly by western fans of samurai history considering that there were contemporaries of Takeda (Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Hashiba Hideyoshi) who conquered way more with frequently smaller, lower quality armies.
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