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SUWA Katsuyori was a son (later heir) of TAKEDA Harunobu (Shingen) and a grandson of Suwa Yorishige.
He was born between Harunobu and his concubine Suwa Goryōnin, daughter of Yorishige in 1546. He took over the head of Suwa clan in 1562 and was appointed to the lord of Takato Castle later. His first battle was the attack on Minowa Castle in 1563 and he became the heir of the Takeda clan after his half brother Yoshinobu was disinherited. After the death of Shingen in 1573, he took over the head of the clan but was defeated by ODA Nobunaga and TOKUGAWA Ieyasu in the Battle of Nagashino in 1575. And then he failed in mediating the internal troubles of the Uesugi clan. Besides Nobunaga forces him into a difficult situation by making his vassals betray him. At last he committed suicide in March, 1582.
In this series, he is described as a young man who is obliged to live with his mother Yu-u hime and maids in Suwa in his childhood. But Kansuke who occasionally visits them and treats him kindly as if he were his real child. Though He intends to participate in the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima, Kansuke tells him that Shingen doesn't allow it and he enters Takashima Castle to provide logistic support.
The image shows Sōsuke Ikematsu as Suwa Katsuyori (From the DVD series of "Fūrin Kazan")
