Chōsokabe Nobuchika

Portrait of Chōsokabe Nobuchika from Utagawa Yoshiiku's Heroes of the Taiheiki

Chōsokabe Nobuchika (長宗我部信親, 1565 – January 1, 1587) was the eldest son of samurai lord Chōsokabe Motochika, and lived during the late Sengoku Period of Japanese history. After the subjugation of Shikoku by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Nobuchika and his father followed the Toyotomi into Kyushu. Nobuchika was caught in an ambush during the campaign against the Shimazu in Battle of Hetsugigawa and died.

Family

Great-Grandfather: Chōsokabe Kanetsugu (died 1508)
Grandfather: Chōsokabe Kunichika (1504–1560)
Father: Chōsokabe Motochika (1539–1599)
Brothers:
- Chōsokabe Chikatada (1572–1600)
- Chōsokabe Morichika (1575–1615)

Prominent people of the Sengoku period
Three major daimyōs	Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tokugawa Ieyasu
Shogun	Ashikaga Yoshiharu Ashikaga Yoshiteru Ashikaga Yoshihide Ashikaga Yoshiaki Tokugawa Hidetada
Emperors	Go-Kashiwabara Go-Nara Ōgimachi Go-Yōzei
Other daimyōs	List of daimyōs from the Sengoku period
Swordsmen	Hikita Bungorō Kamiizumi Nobutsuna Miyamoto Musashi Sasaki Kojirō Tadashima Akiyama Tsukahara Bokuden Tsutsumi Hōzan Yagyū Munenori Yagyū Munetoshi
Ninja, rogues and mercenaries	Mochizuki Chiyome Fūma Kotarō Hattori Hanzō Ishikawa Goemon Katō Danzō Kirigakure Shikaemon Kōzuki Sasuke Nakamura Chōbei Ohama Kagetaka Saika Magoichi Suzuki Sadayu Suzuki Shigehide Suzuki Shigetomo Suzuki Magoroku Igasaki Dōshun
Monks and other religious figures	Ankokuji Ekei Hongan-ji Kennyo Hon'inbō Sansa Ishin Sūden Jion Nankōbō Tenkai Rennyo Sessai Chōrō Shimozuma Chūkō Shimozuma Rairen Shimozuma Rairyū Takuan Sōhō
Onna-bugeisha	Ii Naotora Ikeda Sen Kaihime Komatsuhime Maeda Matsu Ōhōri Tsuruhime Tachibana Ginchiyo Iio Tazu Myorin Otsune
Other women	Asahihime Chacha Dota Gozen Gotokuhime Hosokawa Gracia Izumo no Okuni Kitsuno Kyōgoku Maria Kyōgoku Tatsuko Nene Nōhime Oeyo Oichi Ohatsu Okaji no Kata Lady Kasuga Lady Saigō Lady Tsukiyama Senhime Sentōin Tokuhime
See also	List of samurai from the Sengoku period

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