The Rider and the War Fan

Feudal Japan · 18 October 1561

The Rider and the War Fan

Two lords fight the same ground five times; once, one rides into the other’s tent

Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin spent twelve years fighting over a flat triangle of rice land where two rivers meet in Shinano, the plain of Kawanakajima, and the fourth of their five battles, in the autumn of 1561, is the…

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