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I could go on for quite a while, but the clans to mention will become less and less famous. Before the Ryûzôji overthrew their masters they were just one of many vassals. I mention them not only because they have a cool name, but because their leader Takanobu was one crazy dog and one of the 3 major contestants for hegemony over Kyûshû. Of the above, let's mention the Shôni for instance, who lost grip due to incompetent leadership and was eventually challenged and overthrown by their vassals the Ryûzôji. Who were they? Greater clans who became splintered between their vassals and later eclipsed by one of them, or overthrown by one in particular. Only through a lifetime of bloody wars did Nobutora manage to unite Kai again, and had he not been one of those brilliant and ruthless leaders, the Takeda would've shared fate with the Hosokawa, Ôuchi, Shiba, Shôni and many others. To be fair, let's also add the Takeda because, while Kai was more or less their province, by 1507 when Shingens father inherited, the province was split between them and many former vassals who had broken free. The Amako, great rivals of the Ôuchi and Môri, entered the Onin war as minor Kyogoku vassals, but were expelled and did not establish themselves independently until the early 16th century. Miyoshi, went from a minor Hosokawa vassal and climbed their former overlords bloodied back to control much of central Japan and the shogunate. Only Chosokabe Kunichika survived under the protection of the Ichijô, to later reestablish his clan and eclipse his protectors. They however survived by submitting themselves as vassals to the Imagawa with whom they were at war, to spare their clan from destruction.Ĭhosokabe, one of the Tosa clans who in conflict with their neighbours nearly got destroyed themselves. Matsudaira, later Tokugawa, one of many clans originating from Mikawa, sharing a similar history with the Môri in making the province their own over time and turning many of their close neighbours into vassals. They were alternatingly vassals and allies of their more powerful neighbours and managed to stay alive by picking the right side. Môri, at the outset of the SJ, a minor clan from Aki province, which they shared with many other clans (many like the Kikkawa and Kobayakawa later became their vassals). Hôjô, started of as unsignificant retainers of the Imagawa and went on to carve out a great territory on the Kanto plain. They didn't even hold the whole of Owari for themselves. Oda, started as quite minor retainers of the Shiba clan. Let's count the famous and prominent clans who started as minor retainers of other clans, or shared a province with many others: What mattered was what you did with what you had. This was an age and place where the value of your land and your status mattered little. Althought I understand that's super intense and all, thus a good selling-point.
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I only wish they'd throw in more underdogs for us to fight our way up with, and not just specifically one leaned towards subterfuge.
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So I don't really have a gripe with the addition of the Hattori clan, even thought I'm quite read up on japanese history. This is one of the most fascinating aspects of this time and place, that even in such a fairly rigid and feudal society, a man who was one day nothing could later become a great general and ruler, and it is a perfect pretext for a game of this sort. He rose by his own means through the ranks of the Oda clan and carried on Nobunaga's legacy when he was murdered. To be fair, none of the clans who were great towards the end of the Sengoku Jidai were great at its outset.Īlso take the house of Toyotomi as a striking example, before Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who became Kampaku, virtually shogun and undisputed leader of Japan, there was no Toyotomi clan at all. The Hattori were a clan, they could theoretically have become major, just like the Hôjô, Môri, Oda, Matsudaira (later Tokugawa) etc. Given the frequent rises from absolute obscurity during the Sengoku Jidai, it is fair to say that if the game starts from its outset, ANY clan could have a run for greatness.