Kita Nobuchika

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**Kita Nobuchika**  (北 (きた)信愛 (のぶちか), *****Kita Nobuchika*****? Kita Nobuchika) is a retainer of the Nanbu Clan, serving under Nanbu Nobunao. She serves as a recruitable general since Sengoku Hime 1, and has appeared in Sengoku Hime 2, Sengoku Hime 4, Sengoku Hime 5, Sengoku Hime 6 and Tengoku Hime 2.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 1:**The confidant of the Nanbu family head "Nanbu Nobunao".
Nao Nobunao with outstanding skill, and by extension, a military commander who supports the Nanbu clan.
She is a very soft and painless woman, so there is no end to her story of marriage.

CV:澤宮菜穂
南部家当主「南部信直」の腹心。
卓越した手腕で有信直、引いては南部家を支える武将。
物が柔らかで、気苦労を感じさせない非常に出来た女性であるため、縁談の話しが後を絶たない。

**Sengoku Hime 2:**The confidant of the Nanbu family head "Nanbu Nobunao".
Nobunao with his outstanding skill, and by extension, a military commander who supports the Nanbu clan.
She is a soft-mannered, very well-made woman who doesn't feel annoyed, so the story of her marriage is endless.

卓越した手腕で信直、引いては南部家を支える武将。
物腰が柔らかで、気苦労を感じさせない非常に出来た女性であるため、縁談の話が後を絶たない。
CV:澤宮菜穂
原画:あまぎみちひと

**Sengoku Hime 4:**Nanbu retainer.
In the case of the Nanbu clan's succession problem, he is a loyal vassal who is devoted to Nobunao and supports Nobunao.
He is a person full of feminine charm, and he is actually fighting peony when standing, peony when sitting, and lily flower when walking.
For that reason, his courtesy is endless, but he also has a humble personality, and he spends days repeating "I'm sorry" to all the people he approaches.

南部家の後継問題の際は、信直のために腐心し、信直を支えて南部家に尽くしている忠臣。
女性的な魅力にあふれた人物で、立てば芍薬、座れば牡丹、歩く姿は百合の花を自然体で実戦している。
そのために求愛者が後を絶たないが、当人は控え目な性格も有り、いい寄る相手の全てに『ごめんなさい』を繰り返す日々を送っている。
【デザイナー：あまぎみちひと】　【演者：水純なな歩】

**Sengoku Hime 5:**Nanbu retainer. In the case of the Nanbu clan's succession problem, he is a loyal vassal who is devoted to Nobunao and supports Nobunao. He is a person full of feminine charm, and he is actually fighting peony when standing, peony when sitting, and lily flower when walking. For that reason, his courtesy is endless, but he also has a humble personality, and he spends days repeating "I'm sorry" to all the people he approaches.

デザイナー：あまぎみちひとＣＶ：水純なな歩

**Sengoku Hime 6:**Nanbu retainer. In the case of the Nanbu clan's succession problem, he is a loyal vassal who is devoted to Nobunao and supports Nobunao. He is a person full of feminine charm, and he is actually fighting peony when standing, peony when sitting, and lily flower when walking. For that reason, his courtesy is endless, but he also has a humble personality, and he spends days repeating "I'm sorry" to all the people he approaches.

デザイナー：あまぎみちひと演者：水純なな歩

**Tengoku Hime 2:**Nanbu retainer. In the case of the Nanbu clan's succession problem, he is a loyal vassal who is devoted to Nobunao and supports Nobunao. He is a person full of feminine charm, practicing peony when standing, peony when sitting, and lily flower when walking. For that reason, there are no end to the courtesans, but he also has a humble personality, and he spends his days repeating "I'm sorry" to all the people he is close to. When I was there, I was summoned to Venard.

デザイナー:あまぎみちひと
南部家家臣。南部家の後継問題の際は、信直のために腐心し、信直を支えて南部家に尽くしている忠臣。女性的な魅力にあふれた人物で、立てば芍薬、座れば牡丹、歩く姿は百合の花を自然体で実践している。そのために求愛者が後を絶たないが、当人は控え目な性格も有り、いい寄る相手の全てに「ごめんなさい』を繰り返す日々を送っている。数多の男性に言い寄られ、困って物陰に隠れていた時、ヴェナールに召喚された。

## Historical Information

Kita Nobuchika served as a bushō from the Sengoku to early Edo periods. He was a retainer of the Nanbu clan. He had the common name of Kenyoshi-Hikotarō.

Around 1540, Nobuchika’s father, Munechika, transferred the headship of the clan to him. In 1541, after Nanbu Harumasa inherited the Nanbu family, Nobuchika continued serving him.
In 1570, a succession struggle in the Nanbu clan broke-out. This is known as the Yaura Incident in which Harumasa was challenged by his adopted heir, Takko Nobunao (later known as Nanbu Nobunao). Nobuchika protected Nobunao and opposed Nanbu Harumasa. In 1571, Nobuchika was attacked at Kenyoshi Castle by Harumasa, but a settlement was reach through the offices of Hachinohe Masayoshi.
After the retirement of Harumasa, Nobuchika supported his son and designated heir, Nanbu Harutsugu. At the time of Harutsugu’s coming-of-age ceremony, Nobuchika served in an honorary role to place the black-lacquered headgear known as an eboshi upon Harutsugu.
Early in 1582, Harumasa died of illness. Less than three weeks later, Harutsugu died of smallpox at the age of thirteen. Under another theory, Haratsugu was assassinated while returning at night to Sannohe Castle after the funeral for his father. In this case, the killing may have been directed by either Nanbu Nobunao or Kunohe Masazane. In any event, this triggered a succession struggle in the clan in which Nobuchika backed Nobunao. Thereafter, Nobuchika became a close associate of Nobunao, managing internal affairs as well as external diplomacy for the Nanbu clan.
In 1587, Nobuchika visited Maeda Toshiie, the lord of Kanazawa Castle in Kaga Province, presented him with a falcon, and expressed his desire to serve under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In 1590, his lord, Nanbu Nobunao, served in the Conquest of Odawara for Hideyoshi. As a result, during the Oushū Retribution, the Nanbu clan received recognition of the rights to their territories.
In 1591, during the Revolt of Kunohe Masazane, Nobuchika traveled to Kyōto to seek reinforcements from Hideyoshi. The rebellion was subdued by forces under Toyotomi Hidetsugu.
In 1598, following the death of his second son, Kita Hidechika, who was serving as the chamberlain of Hanamaki Castle, Nobuchika succeeded him in this role with a fief of 8,000 koku. There are theories, however, that question whether he in fact assumed this role as the chamberlain of Hanamaki Castle.
In 1599, in the wake of the death of Nanbu Nobunao, Nobuchika intended to retire, but Nobunao’s successor, Nanbu Toshinao, did not permit him so he continued to carry important duties as a close associate of Toshinao. In the background, it is surmised that there was no one to oppose the Hachinohe clan but this reason is uncertain. That same year, Nobuchika underwent the rites of tonsure and adopted the monk’s name of Shōsai.
In 1600, at the Battle of Sekigahara, Shōsai served for the Eastern Army, defending Hanamaki Castle. Later that year witnessed the Iwasaki Uprising instigated by Date Masamune who aimed to covertly expand his territory. Waga Tadachika led his forces in an assault against Hanamaki Castle in an event known as the Nighttime Attack on Hanamaki Castle.
At the time, the main contingent of the Nanbu army was deployed for the Battle of Keichō Dewa. As a member of the Eastern Army, Masamune was an ally so only a small number of troops were positioned at Hanamaki Castle on the border of the Date territory. Shōsai relied upon his resourcefulness to disrupt the Waga forces and successfully defend in the castle. In 1613, he died at the age of ninety-one. He did not wish for his family name to be inherited so Hanamaki Castle was requisitioned by the domain. After his demise, the Kita clan split between the family of his eldest son, Kita Chikakazu (Sadakazu), who inherited the estate and the fifth son of a cadet family, Naotsugu (Chikatsugu), and continued until the end of the Edo period, but the family of Naotsugu carried on the religious worship for Shōsai and Hidechika.

**Lord(s):** Nanbu Harumasa → Nanbu Harutsugu → Nanbu Nobunao → Nanbu Toshinao

**Father:** Kita Munechika

**Sibling(s):** **Nobuchika**, sister (wife of Sakuraba Mitsuyasu)

**Spouse(s):**Daughter of the Minami clan

**Children:** Chikakazu, Hidechika, Naotsugu, Chikatomo, Taneichi Chikahisa, Nobukage