About Ōkuma Tomohide
Lived 1517 – 1582 (aged 64–65). Ōkuma Tomohide was a Japanese samurai.
Ōkuma Tomohide (大熊朝秀; 1517 – 3 April 1582) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period. He served the Uesugi clan, but later switched allegiances and became a retainer of the Takeda clan of Kai Province. He died with Takeda Katsuyori at the Battle of Tenmokuzan.
Tomohide's descendants became the chief retainers of the Sanada clan.
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Who was Ōkuma Tomohide?
Japanese samurai
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Ōkuma Tomohide was born in 1517.
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Ōkuma Tomohide died on 3 April 1582.
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Ōkuma Tomohide was a samurai.
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Ōkuma Tomohide was Japanese.
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