who practice all year for this one weekend. Family Father: Takeda Nobutora (1494–1574) Mother: Ōi no Kata Brothers: Takematsu (1517–1523) Inuchiyo (1523–1529) Takeda Nobushige (1525–1561) Takeda Nobumoto Takeda Nobukado (1529–1582) Matsuo Nobukore (c. 1530s–1571) Takeda Souchi Takeda Nobuzane (c. 1530s–1575) Ichijō Nobutatsu (c. 1539–1582) Sisters: Joukei-in (1519–1550), married Imagawa Yoshimoto Nanshou-in (born 1520) married Anayama Nobutomo Nene (1528–1543) married Suwa Yorishige Sons: Takeda Katsuyori by Suwa Goryōnin Takeda Yoshinobu by Lady Sanjō Takeda Nobuchika (also known as Unno Nobuchika) by Lady Sanjō Takeda Nobukiyo Nishina Morinobu Katsurayama Nobusada Daughters: Ōbai-in Kenshō-in Shinryu-in Matsuhime Kikuhime In popular culture Generations of farming peasants who become warriors to fight Takeda Shingen's battles are depicted in the 1960 movie The River Fuefuki, aka Fuefukigawa by director Keisuke Kinoshita. The film is based on a novel by Shichirō Fukazawa. Shingen's life is depicted in the 1969 film Samurai Banners, seen through the eyes of his general Yamamoto Kansuke. The film is based on a novel by Inoue Yasushi titled Furin Kazan. Takeda's battles with Uesugi Kenshin were dramatized in the movie Heaven and Earth. Takeda Shingen's death is fictionalized in Akira Kurosawa's film Kagemusha. He is mentioned on episode 31 of the Tokusatsu 1988 series Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya. The focus of this episode is the alleged missing Takeda Shingen's famous sword Nobutora, and its discovery in France. His life is the subject of a historical novel by Jirō Nitta, which was adapted for television in the 1988 NHK Taiga drama Takeda Shingen, starring Kiichi Nakai, distributed internationally under the title Shingen. Shingen the Ruler (Takeda Shingen 2 in Japan) is a turn-based strategy game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), produced by Hot B in 1989, and released in North America in 1990. The Takeda Clan is a faction in Creative Assembly's Shogun: Total War and Total War: Shogun 2 with Shingen himself appearing in the latter's opening cinematic. In the 2020 video game "Ghost of Tsushima", the player can obtain an armour set (Gosaku's armour) that is very heavily inspired by Takeda Shingen's actual famous armour set. Takeda Shingen has appeared in Samurai Warriors and Sengoku Basara video game franchises, and in the anime Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings. He is a character in all of the games of the Warriors Orochi series. He is a playable character in Pokémon Conquest (Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition in Japan), with his partner Pokémon being Rhyperior and