Yamamoto Kansuke

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Yamamoto Kansuke 山本勘助だるま鈴

Daruma Clay Bell showing
Yamamoto Kansuke


Photo from my friend Ishino.



Yamamoto Kansuke (山本勘助)
(1501 – October 18, 1561) was a Japanese samurai of the 16th century who was one of Takeda Shingen's most trusted Twenty-Four Generals. Also known by his formal name, Haruyuki (晴幸). He was a brilliant strategist, and is particularly known for his plan which led to victory in the fourth battle of Kawanakajima against Uesugi Kenshin. However, Kansuke never lived to see his plan succeed; thinking it to have failed, he charged headlong into the enemy ranks, dying in battle.

Kansuke's origins are not known for certain, but he is believed to have originated from Ushikubo, a town in Mikawa Province, which was then under the suzerainty of the Imagawa clan. He came to Kai and began to serve Takeda Shingen in 1543, receiving a position as an infantry commander (ashigaru-taishō 足軽大将). Legend says that Kansuke was blind in one eye and lame, but a fierce warrior nevertheless. In various works of art, he is depicted holding a naginata as a support for his weak leg. Kansuke was also involved in bringing the defeated Suwa Yorishige's daughter to Shingen as a concubine.

He led the pincer movement at the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima, but as he believed it to be a failure, he charged into the enemy ranks, being killed in action with his two chief retainers, Osaragi Shōzaemon (大仏庄左衛門) and Isahaya Sagorō (諫早佐五郎). Kansuke's adopted son Yamamoto Kanzō Nobutomo, was killed at the Battle of Kawanakajima.

Kansuke was an ancestor of Yamamoto Yaeko of Aizu, a famed Bakumatsu period woman warrior.

The Heihō Ōgisho (兵法奥義書), a treatise on strategy and tactics attributed to Kansuke, is included in the Takeda family chronicle, the Kōyō Gunkan. In it, he focuses particularly on the strategic behavior of individual warriors.
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- source and more photos : makiokataxi.com/sub3_1_9_kansukefudouson.htm



勘助不動尊 Kansuke Fudo
勘助の念持仏は不動明王

. yoroi Fudo　鎧不動 "Fudo in armour" .
like Takeda Shingen

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Yaeko Yamamoto (1845-1932) 山本八重子
a Fukushima native, will be portrayed in the yearlong NHK TV series "Taiga-drama" in 2013. Sometimes referred to as the Edo Period's Joan of Arc, the Aizu native was a gunnery instructor who fought to protect her clan during the civil war between the Tokugawa shogunate and those who supported the Imperial court (Boshin War). She also served in the Russo-Japanese and Sino-Japanese wars as a nurse.

Yamamoto later married the Rev. Joseph Neesima and played a key role in founding prestigious Doshisha University 同志社大学 in Kyoto.
source : www.japantimes.co.jp


Fukushima -

. Japan after the BIG earthquake March 11, 2011　.

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Koshu Daruma ... 甲州だるま from Kai Province
... Shingen Daruma 信玄だるま (Takeda Shingen), Yamanashi Daruma



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