is a 1988 Japanese historical television series. It is the 26th NHK Taiga drama. Plot The series focuses on the life of Takeda Shingen. Production Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi Cast Takeda clan Kiichi Nakai as Takeda Shingen Claude Maki as young Shingen and Takeda Katsuyori Mikijirō Hira as Takeda Nobutora, Shingen's father Ayako Wakao as Lady Ōi, Shingen's mother (series narrator) Misako Konno as Lady Sanjō, Shingen's wife Mayumi Ogawa as Yae Yoko Minamino as Okoko and Koihime Mao Daichi as Satomi Kimiko Ikegami as Eri Takeshi Wakamatsu as Takeda Nobushige Masaru Shinozuka as Takeda Nobukado Shinichi Tsutsumi as Takeda Yoshinobu Nakamura Shichinosuke II as young Yoshinobu Katsuya Kobayashi as Hara Masatoshi Kei Satō as Abe Katsuyoshi Taketoshi Naito as Gishū "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen" Joe Shishido as Hara Toratane Kiyoshi Kodama as Obu Toramasa Ryōsuke Miki as Baba Nobuharu Kōjirō Hongō as Amari Torayasu Bunta Sugawara as Itagaki Nobukata Hiroaki Murakami as Kōsaka "Danjō" Masanobu Isao Hashizume as Sanada Yukitaka Saburō Shinoda as Yamagata Masakage Toshiyuki Nishida as Yamamoto Kansuke Uesugi clan Kyōhei Shibata as Uesugi Kenshin, Shingen's rival Ken Utsui as Naoe Kagetsuna Yūsuke Takita as Uesugi Norimasa Tokuma Nishioka as Kitajō Takahiro Hiroshi Katsuno as Ōkuma Tomohide Imagawa clan Nakamura Kankurō V as Imagawa Yoshimoto Kyōko Kishida as Jukeini Ichirō Zaitsu as Taigen Sessai Later Hōjō clan Ryōtarō Sugi as Hōjō Ujiyasu Yūichi Aoyama as Hōjō Ujimasa Mai Okamoto as Oume Takao Inoue as Matsuda Norihide Oda clan Ryo Ishibashi as Oda Nobunaga Yumi Asō as Nōhime Tsuyoshi Ihara as Oda Nobuyuki Tokugawa clan Nakamura Hashinosuke III as Tokugawa Ieyasu Shinshō Nakamaru as Sakai Tadatsugu Suwa clan Bandō Yasosuke V as Suwa Yorishige Yorie Yamashita as Nene Goryōnin Murakami clan Tsunehiko Kamijō as Murakami Yoshikiyo Others Ichikawa Danzō IX as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the last shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate TV schedule References External links Official Site Taiga drama 1988 Japanese television series debuts 1988 Japanese television series endings Cultural depictions of Takeda Shingen Cultural depictions of Sanada clan Cultural depictions of Uesugi Kenshin Cultural depictions of Oda Nobunaga Cultural depictions of Tokugawa Ieyasu Television shows based on Japanese novels Television series set in the 16th century Television shows set in Yamanashi Prefecture