Taigen Sessai

* Sen6
* Sen5
* Sen3
* Ten1
* Ten2

**Taigen Sessai**  (太原 (たいげん)雪斎 (せっさい), *****Taigen Sessai*****? Taigen Sessai) is a retainer of the Imagawa Clan. She made her debut since Sengoku Hime 3, and has appeared in all 3 of the games in the Sengoku Hime series, Tengokuhime 1, Tengokuhime 2.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 3:**
Military strategist supporting the Imagawa family. He learned things at temples and shrines from an early age and excelled in various fields, such as politics and negotiations, in addition to matters related to warfare, and achieved numerous successes. For this reason, the name of Taihara Sessai is widely known among warlords.
He always gives strict sermons to Ujizane, who is devoted to waka poetry and kemari. His sermons are long anyway. Perhaps because he has lived in temples and shrines for a long time, he is able to sense spiritual things, albeit only slightly.

和歌や蹴鞠に没頭する氏真に対していつも厳しく説教している。その説教はとにかく長い。寺社での暮らしが長いせいか、僅かではあるが霊的なものを感じ取ることができる。
ＣＶ：かわしまりの　デザイナー：開栓注意

**Sengoku Hime 5:**
Vassal of the Imagawa family. Monk and military strategist. Second generation 'Taihara Sessai' in the service of the Imagawa family. He is a calm man in comparison to his apparent age and is greatly trusted by Yoshimoto. He sometimes scolds Yoshimoto. He is Yoshimoto's sword in hand, who sometimes leads his troops into battle and sometimes travels to other countries as an emissary. Apparently, he has some secrets.

デザイナー：相音うしおＣＶ：早瀬ゃょぃ

**Sengoku Hime 6:**
Vassal of the Imagawa family. Monk and military strategist. Second generation 'Taihara Sessai' in the service of the Imagawa family. He is a calm man in comparison to his apparent age and is greatly trusted by Yoshimoto. He sometimes scolds Yoshimoto. He is Yoshimoto's sword in hand, who sometimes leads his troops into battle and sometimes travels to other countries as an emissary. He is said to have a big secret that he cannot reveal to others.

デザイナー：相音うしお 演者：西乃ころね

**Tengoku Hime 1:**
Vassal of the Imagawa family. Monk and military strategist. Second generation 'Taihara Sessai' in the service of the Imagawa family. He is a calm man in comparison with his apparent age. He sometimes leads his troops into battle and sometimes goes to other countries as an emissary. Apparently, he is harbouring some secret.

**Tengoku Hime 2:**
Vassal of the Imagawa family. Monk and military strategist.
He is a calm man in comparison with his apparent age, and is much trusted by Yoshimoto. He is Yoshimoto's sword in hand, and sometimes leads his troops on the battlefield, and sometimes travels to other countries as an emissary. He was summoned to Venar when Ieyasu was living in seclusion without any human contact in the post-unification world.

今川家家臣。 僧侶にして軍師。
見た目の年齢と比して落ち着きのある人物で、 義元の信頼も大きい。兵を率いて戦場に立つこともあれば、使者として他国へと赴くこともある義元の懐刀。家康が天下統一後の世界の、 更に先の時代、 人と関わる事なくひっそりと暮らしていた所、 ヴェナールに召喚された。

## Historical Information

Sessai Chōrō (雪斎長老) (died 1557) or Imagawa Sessai, also known as Taigen Sessai, was a Japanese abbot and mountain ascetic (yamabushi). He was an uncle of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and served him as military advisor and as commander of Imagawa's forces, despite his lack of any formal battle training or experience.

Sessai aided his nephew in consolidating the Imagawa territories, and in a number of political maneuvers which gained Imagawa influence over the Matsudaira family. However, Yoshimoto soon came into conflict with the Oda clan, and faced defeat at the 1542 battle of Azukizaka. After this, he left Sessai in command of his armies. By 1551 he had secured a young Matsudaira Takechiyo or Matsudaira Motoyasu -later known as Tokugawa Ieyasu- (a member of the Matsudaira family) as a hostage.

In 1552–1554, Imagawa secured a treaty and alliance between his family and those of the Hōjō and Takeda Shingen. At some point after this, Sessai began to advise Matsudaira Motoyasu, though the extent of his role in Tokugawa's military exploits is unclear, and unlikely to be great.

Sessai died in 1557 due to complications from gout, three years before Yoshimoto would die at the Battle of Okehazama, precipitating the decline of the Imagawa.

**Lord(s):**今川義元

**Father:**庵原政盛

**Mother:**興津正信の娘