Takeda Shingen was a man of the utmost seriousness.
His accomplishments were numerous. All the battles that he had won. He was an undoubted genius in all things military. The Tiger of Kai. When he came to power, that was all the land his clan had – the province of Kai.
And then, he expanded, conquering Shinano and Musashi only to be halted when he attempted to set upon the lands of Echigo, and their Uesugi defenders. Their battles were numerous, but neither could claim a true upper hand, and so the ambitious tiger was forced to pause, and look elsewhere, lamenting the name of Uesugi Kenshi.
His eyes fell on the Imagawa lands of Suruga that bordered Totomi and Kai. But his son Takeda Yoshinobu – who had married Imagawa Yoshimoto's daughter – strongly opposed that plan.
