Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen

In artwork and other historical sources, there is some variation in the list of names.^[2]

• Akiyama Nobutomo – Takeda's second in command; granted more autonomy. d. 1575, following second siege of Iwamura Castle^[2]
• Amari Torayasu – d. Battle of Uedahara 1548^[3]
• Anayama Nobukimi – following Mikatagahara and Nagashino, allied with Tokugawa Ieyasu and aided in defeat of Takeda Katsuyori^[2]
• Baba Nobuharu – fought at Mikatagahara and commanded vanguard of the right wing of Takeda army at Nagashino, where he died.^[4]
• Hara Masatane – d. Battle of Nagashino 1575^[5]
• Hara Toratane – d. 1564^[2]
• Ichijō Nobutatsu – younger brother to Shingen, fought at Nagashino^[2]
• Itagaki Nobukata – d. Battle of Uedahara 1548^[3]
• Kōsaka Danjō Masanobu - played a major role in the fourth battle of Kawanakajima, but was not present at Nagashino^[2]
• Naitō Masatoyo d. Nagashino 1575^[2]
• Obata Masamori – led the largest contingent (500 cavalry in the center company) at Nagashino^[2]
• Obata Toramori – d. 1561, is recorded as having been wounded 40 times in 30 encounters^[2]
• Obu Toramasa d. 1565^[3]
• Oyamada Nobushige – fought at Kawanakajima, Mikatagahara, and Nagashino^[3]
• Saigusa Moritomo – d. Nagashino 1575^[5]
• Sanada Nobutsuna – d. Nagashino 1575^[2]
• Sanada Yukitaka – a castle lord in Shinano Province who submitted to Shingen^[2]
• Tada Mitsuyori d. 1563^[2]
• Takeda Nobukado – brother to Shingen, d. 1575^[3]
• Takeda Nobushige – younger brother to Shingen, d. fourth battle of Kawanakajima 1561^[3]
• Tsuchiya Masatsugu – fought at Mikatagahara, d. Nagashino 1575; his sons followed Takeda Katsuyori until his death at Temmokuzan in 1582^[2]
• Yamagata Masakage – fought at Mikatagahara and Yoshida, d. Nagashino 1575^[2]
• Yamamoto Kansuke - strategist of the fourth battle of Kawanakajima in 1561, died in that battle^[3]
• Yokota Takatoshi – d. Siege of Toishi 1550^[3]

• Painted by Matsumoto Fūko (1840 - 1923)
•  
  Takeda Nobukado
•  
  Akiyama Torashige
•  
  Itagaki Nobukata
•  
  Obata Toramori
•  
  Saigusa Masasada
•  
  Sanada Nobutsuna
•  
  Sone Msayo
•  
  Tada Mitsuyori
•  
  Tsuchiya Masatsugu
•  
  Naito Masatoyo
•  
  Baba Nobuharu
•  
  Hara Masatane
•  
  Yamamoto Kansuke
•  
  Yokota Takatoshi

During the Edo period, the twenty-four samurai leaders were a popular topic for ukiyo-e and bunraku.^[2]

In the computer game Shogun: Total War, there are 25 Takeda generals.^[6]

• Seven Spears of Shizugatake

• Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co.

• British Museum, No. 3 Yamamoto Kansuke Nyudo Dokisai Haruyuki 山本勘助入道道鬼蔡晴幸 / Koetsu yusho den Takeda-ke nijushi-sho 甲越勇將傳武田家廾四將 (Biographies of Heroic Generals of Kai and Echigo Provinces, Twenty-four Generals of the Takeda Clan)
• Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Portraits of the Twenty-four Generals of Kai Province (Kôshû nijûshi shô no shôzô)「甲州二十四将之肖像」