Ōkuma Tomohide (大熊朝秀; 1517 – 3 April 1582) was a Japanese

samurai The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...

of the

Sengoku period The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...

. He served the

Uesugi clan The is a Japanese samurai clan which was at its peak one of the most powerful during the Muromachi period, Muromachi and Sengoku periods (14th to 17th centuries).Georges Appert, Appert, Georges. (1888) ''Ancien Japon,'' p. 79./ref> At its heigh ...

, but later switched allegiances and became a retainer of the

Takeda clan The was a Japanese samurai clan active from the late Heian period until the late 16th century. The clan was historically based in Kai Province in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture. The clan reached its greatest influence under the rule of Taked ...

of Kai Province. He died with

Takeda Katsuyori was a Japanese ''daimyō'' (military lord) of the Sengoku period, who was famed as the head of the Takeda clan and the successor to the legendary warlord Takeda Shingen. He was son-in-law of Hojo Ujiyasu, ''daimyō'' of Hojo clan. Early life H ...

at the Battle of Tenmokuzan.Akihiko Katagiri, "The Family and the Vassals of the Fusada" ("Joetsu City History and History 2", Part 3, Chapter 1, Section 2 (Joetsu City, 2004) / Collection: Motoki Kuroda, edited by Kuroki Motoki Vol.2 Kanto Uesugi Family ”( Kai Kosho Publishing, 2018) ) 2018, P249-251. Tomohide's descendants became the chief retainers of the

Sanada clan The is a Japanese clan.Edmond Papinot, Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)("Sanada," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 52 DF 56 of 80/nowiki> retrieved 2013-5-3. The Sana ...

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Samurai 1582 deaths Uesugi retainers Takeda retainers Place of birth unknown Date of birth unknown 1517 births {{samurai-stub