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OBU Genshirō Masakage was a younger brother or a nephew of OBU Toramasa. He served TAKEDA Harunobu as his attendant and became one of his vassals in 1552. The armours of him and his vassals were red like those of Toramasa.
He distinguished himself in some battles but Toramasa was executed because of the scandal of Takeda Yoshinobu and the Obu clan was extinct. Then he was ordered to succeed the Yamagata clan and called himself YAMAGATA Masakage. After that he participated in attacking Kōzuke and Suruga and invaded Mikawa. However, Harunobu (Shingen) died in the middle of his campaign.
Then he served Takeda Katsuyori who succeeded Harunobu but was treated coldly by him. He, BABA Nobuharu and other vassals who served Harunobu opposed the Battle of Nagashino but Katsuyori and the vassals who were close to him insisted to fight against ODA Nobunaga and TOKUGAWA Ieyasu there. But Katsuyori’s strategy was not effective.
He died in the battle at the age of 47.
In this series, he serves as attendant of Harunobu and is promoted to one of the vassals who can join the council (hyōjō). He participates in some battles especially a series of the Battle of Kawanakajima and gives a shout of victory for dead Kansuke with Harunobu and other vassals.
The image shows Yasuyuki Maekawa(*) as Obu Masakage
(From the DVD series of Fūrin Kazan)
(*) Though real Yamabata Masakage is said to have been very small, he is over 185cm tall.
