Ōkuma Tomohide
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Ōkuma Tomohide (大熊朝秀? 1517 - April 3, 1582) was a retainer of the Uesugi clan throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Becoming regarded as a full-fledged retainer by mutually supporting Uesugi Kenshin's aspirations to control the entire province of Echigo from the hands of his elder brother, Harukage, Tomohide was granted a moderate sum of rank following his lord's creation of the Uesugi. However, as the years passed on, Tomohide's relations with Kenshin began to worsen by some evident means, causing him to initially revolt during the year of 1566, even though being a paled attempt. As Tomohide thus failed in his revolt--more than likely by means of poor coordination and influence with his comrades--he still managed to escape to the province of Etchu, where he took his personal holdings, as opposed to enlisting himself within a neighboring force. Regardless, Tomohide joined the Takeda around the year of 1563, becoming a subordinate general beneath the command of Yamagata Masakage. Remaining as a loyal sword beneath the Takeda and supporting it at any employable opportunity, Tomohide gave one final stand of conviction, in 1582, fighting to the death against invading Oda forces within the Temmokuzan District of Kai province. Unfortunately for Tomohide, he would be killed in this attempt, thus recorded in history as one of many retainers that were felled by the aspirations of Oda Nobunaga.
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- Okuma Tomohide - SamuraiWiki. (Samurai Archives) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
