Sadanobu Ishikawa

Sadanobu Ishikawa is a supporting character in the 2020 videogame Ghost of Tsushima. He's a Samurai of Tsushima island, who is known for being the greatest archer of the island that is still alive, possibly of all of Japan. Because Jin Sakai helped him locate and defeat his former student Tomoe, he agreed to help him fight against the Mongol invasion to save Japan. 
He is motion captured, and voiced in Japanese, by Shigeru Chiba. He is voiced in English by , who also played Pierre Chang in Lost. 
== Overview ==
Ishikawa is a master archer who taught Jin in the past.
== Personality ==
The years (and a couple of stinging betrayals) have hardened Ishikawa. Ironically, this cynicism makes him more useful as a mentor to Jin during the game proper than Lord Shimura, because unlike Shimura, Ishikawa's got a much more grounded view of the samurai lifestyle, and he doesn't take Jin's unorthodox tactics as a personal affront. His standards for taking on a student being higher than most noble students could demonstrate made him very unpopular with the nobility. While taking on a commoner as a pupil seems progressive, she had none of the psychological groundwork needed to push through this teaching style and eventually snapped completely. In the end all his high-minded perfectionism created was a cranky hermit nobody likes and an extremely dangerous ally giftwrapped for the Mongols. For all his flaws, Ishikawa sees Tomoe's actions as the results of his own decisions to push her like he did and the deaths she caused are ultimately on him.
== Tales ==
* The Fate of Tsushima (Jin's Journey - Main Story Campaign)
*The Tale of Sensei Ishikawa
* Dreams of Conquest
* The Ghost and the Demon Sensei
* The Terror of Otsuna
*The Sensei and the Student
*The Past Never Passes
*The Way of the Bow
*Friends in Passing
*Laid to Rest
*Wolves at the Gate (Jin's Journey - Main Story Campaign)
== Gallery ==
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