Tsugaru Tamenobu

* Sen7
* Sen3
* Sen2

**Tsugaru Tamenobu**  (津軽 (つがる)為信 (ためのぶ), *****Tsugaru Tamenobu*****? Tsugaru Tamenobu) is a retainer of the Nanbu Clan. She made her debut since Sengoku Hime 2, and has appeared in all 3 of the games in the Sengoku Hime series.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 2:**
A vassal of the Nanbu family. She lives an ordinary life under an unmotivated head of the family, and her only pleasure is to read stories from foreign lands.
The day she got her hands on a "blue dragon sword" she saw in the market, she began to desire to fight and live like a hero.

南部家家臣。 やる気のない当主の元、 平凡な日々を過ごしながら、異国の物語を読むことを唯一の楽しみとしている少女。
市場で見かけた「青龍刀」 を手にした日から、 英傑のように戦い、生きることを望むようになる。

**Sengoku Hime 3:**
She has a very strong admiration for Guan Yu and his beard in continental literature.
She has a cold attitude toward men without beards, refusing to recognize them as men, but she becomes a maiden in love with a man with a magnificent beard.
Her enthusiasm for beards is extraordinary, and she is very thorough in not wanting to waste her time with a man who does not have a beard.

髭を生やしていない男性に対して男と認めないなど冷たい態度をとるが、立派な髭を生やした男性に対しては普段とは別の恋する乙女になってしまう。
髭に対する熱意は並々ならぬものがあり、髭を生やしていない男と無駄な時間を過ごしたくないなど徹底している。
ＣＶ：倉田まりや　デザイナー：しき

**Sengoku Hime 7:**
He is a general in the service of the Nanbu family.
He admires Guan Yu from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and grows his hair long to imitate his beautiful beard.
She tries hard to be a great warrior like Guan Yu, not only in appearance but also inside.
However, she is still tired and has her own unique way of dissipating her fatigue.

南部家に仕える武将。
三国志の関羽に憧れており、 彼の美しい髭を真似て、 髪を伸ばしている。
外見のみならず、中身も関羽のように素晴らしい武人であろうと努力している。
が、やはり疲れは溜まるもので彼女独特の発散方法があるらしい。

## Historical Information

Tsugaru Tamenobu (津軽 為信, January 18, 1550 – March 29, 1607) was a Sengoku period Japanese daimyō, and the first daimyō of Hirosaki Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. He was born as Ōura Tamenobu, and was a hereditary retainer of the Nanbu clan; however, he later rebelled against the Nanbu and established an independent domain, and renamed himself as Tsugaru Tamenobu.

In 1589, Tamenobu approached Ishida Mitsunari with gifts of horses and falcons for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and asked for formal recognition as daimyō over his existing holdings (i.e. the three Tsugaru districts of Hiraga, Hanawa and Inaka of far northwestern Mutsu Province). The area has had a formally assessed kokudaka of 45,000 koku. Tamenobu, accompanied by 18 of his closest vassals, participated in the Siege of Odawara in 1590, and was received in audience by Hideyoshi. Nanbu Nobunao, supported by Maeda Toshiie declared Tamenobu to be a rebellious vassal who had seized the Tsugaru region illegally, and demanded his punishment. Tamenobu was supported by Ishida Mitsunari, Hashiba Hidetsugu and Oda Nobukatsu and as he had pledged fealty to Hideyoshi earlier than Nanbu Nobunao, his claims to Tsugaru were officially recognised.
Tamenobu also revived his clan's claims to have been descended from the Fujiwara clan and made lavish presents to the kampaku Konoe Sakihisa into order to receive former recognition of this claim. he also changed his family name from Ōura to Tsugaru at this time. In 1591, he accompanied Toyotomi forces in the suppression of the Kunohe Rebellion. During Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea, he was stationed at Fushimi Castle near Kyoto, and in 1597 moved his seat from Ōura Castle to Horikoshi Castle.
In 1600, Tamenobu received the courtesy title of Ukyo-no-daifu, and together with his third son, Tsugaru Nobuhira, participated in the Battle of Sekigahara as part of the Eastern Army under Tokugawa Ieyasu. However, at the time, his eldest son Tsugaru Nobutake, was serving Toyotomi Hideyori as a page in Osaka Castle, so the situation of the Tsugaru clan was similar to that of the Sanada clan in that it was divided between the two armies. After the battle, he took in the orphaned children of Ishida Mitsunari and provided them shelter in Tsugaru, and even married Nobuhira to Mitsunari's daughter. As a reward for his efforts at the Battle of Sekigahara, his rewards were remarkable low - only an additional 2000 koku in Kozuke Province, which brought his kokudaka to 47,000 koku.
Tamenobu also feared a rebellion within his domains during his absence, and had the suspected leader, Morioka Nobumoto, put to death before his departure. The rebellion occurred anyway, and the rebels briefly occupied Horikoshi Castle before receiving word of the defeat of the Western Army, and surrendering without a fight. Afterwards, Tamenobu decided to relocate his seat to a location called Takaoka, sandwiched between the Iwaki River and the Tabuchi River, and began work on a new castle on a massive scale. The new castle was Hirosaki Castle.
In 1607, Tamenobu received word that his eldest son, Nobutatsu, was ill in Kyoto and set out from Hirosaki to visit him. However, Nobutake died in October, before Tamenobu arrived, and Tamenobu himself died in Kyoto that December at the age of 58. His grave is at the Tsugaru clan temple of Kakushū-ji in Hirosaki.
As Tamenobu's second son, Nobukata, had died in 1597, the title went to his third son, Nobuhira. This immediately resulted in an O-Ie Sōdō, as many retainers felt that Nobutake's son was the legitimate heir. However, the Tokugawa shogunate intervened and proclaimed Nobuhira as the next daimyō.

**Lord(s):**徳川家康→秀忠

**Father:**大浦守信

**Mother:**久慈治義（信長）

**Spouse(s):**正室：大浦為則の娘・阿保良
側室：栄源院

**Children:**信建、信堅、信枚、冨、兼子盛久室
養子：建広