#Sanada nobuyuki

[harumwahsa]

I'm so done.

[From: main story.]

Master Jinpachi: *falls unconscious on MC*

MC: *clearly struggling to hold him up*

Lord Nobuyuki:

😭😭😭 I knew he could be quite playful, but I wasn't expecting THAT. Poor Master Jinpachi. Went all out for his lord, only to have his efforts paid back like this. I love it. I love their dynamic.

PLEASE. He's such a tease. I had to put my phone down. The way I cackled at this part.

I can't get the image of her dragging the big guy like a sack of rice out of my head.

[yee-art]

I dont think I've ever share my OCs here before in tumblr. 😅 I created Sanada trio 2-3 years ago which was inspired by none other than gudaguda. Since this was my first time creating from scratch and wasnt satisfied until recently. hope you guys love it!

[annicaax]

Nobuyuki oh God! I live for events such as these. More, Voltage!

[colourless-hydrangeas]

That was rather awkward. Nobuyuki probably deserves some privacy.

[otome-out-of-context]

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Sanada Nobuyuki fans.

[witchysenbasacorner]

"On some level, I think I always understood

That a ship could never really love an anchor"

[radwonderlandchaos]

[unadulteratedexpertrunaway]

[mysteriouslybeautifulpeacedream]

[harumwahsa]

I forgot he gets flustered when it comes to romance... let it be his own love life, or he's witnessing someone else's.

[From: Jinpachi's main story.]

Jinpachi... 😌... 💆‍♀️💆‍♀️ Why are you like this.

And Lord Nobuyuki just HAD to tease his little brother. Of course. OF COURSE. 😭

[eriksartworld]

Nobuyuki Sanada Concept

[cerastes]

Yooooo is it really you, my ex colleage and ex.co-worker Komatsuhime, childhood names Onei and Inahime, adopted daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, birth daughter of Honda Tadakatsu, married to Sanada Nobuyuki after witnessing the Sanada clan’s fierce tactics and vaunted martial prowess in the Battle of Ueda Castle? It’s been so long, I’m so happy to see you!

[annicaax]

couldnt take more screenies but I loved this event

[colourless-hydrangeas]

A Jinpachi event story, finally. After so long. It's embarrassing that this is the first Jinpachi ES I try hjfdscbs

[dear-mrs-otome]

Hey Mrs. O hope you're well! I just have a question about IkeSen. Im a bit confused about whos in power. Like they talk about an Emporer, and a shogun, and daimyo's. Im confused how Nobunaga and the other lords fit in and who is in charge lol any clarification would be greatly appreciated

Hi Nonny! Thank you, I am peachy.

I don't blame you for being confused - Ikesen gives us an extremely watered down version of Japanese history and even that is confusing because Japanese history is heckin complicated! I'm no expert but I'll see if I can make things clearer for you.

In the time of Ikemen Sengoku it is the Sengoku period obviously (which roughly spans the 15th and 16th centuries) and more specifically 1582, which is the year Oda Nobunaga 'died'. However, we're dealing in a fictional version of things where stuff gets fudged a bit, so let's not get hung up on the exact dates. The structure of Japan at that time was still a feudal system divided into 5 basic levels that looked something like this:

Emperor > Shogun >> Daimyou >>> Samurai >>>> Peasants

The Emperor was nominally the most powerful person in Japan, a political figure of course, but most of all he is a spiritual figure. He's the leader of the Shinto religion and said to be descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu. The Emperor and his Imperial Court fulfilled many important ceremonial functions and was a place where the arts and culture were encouraged and maintained.

In truth though, the most powerful person in the sphere of day to day earthly life was the shogun, a military dictator that ruled over the country. (Incidentally, the first shogun to really consolidate power and create feudalism as it existed in Japan for 600+ years was Minamoto no Yoritomo - the poster boy for Ikemen Genjiden) The shogun ruled with the Emperor's blessing, whether that was freely given or manipulated, and if you really want to grossly oversimply an analogy I think you could somewhat liken it to the concept of the Pope and some monarchs in historical Europe - both powerful in different ways, and a monarch ostensibly ruled with the Pope's stamp of approval.

Below the shogun would be the daimyou, powerful land-owning lords who controlled personal armies of samurai loyal to them. This would include many of the warlords we know by name in the game - Oda Nobunaga, Takeda Shingen, Date Masamune, Uesugi Kenshin, Mouri Motonari, Imagawa Yoshimoto, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (eventually) were all daimyou.

Samurai in service to the daimyous could include some illustrious warriors as well, and there are plenty of them that are suitors in Ikesen too - Akechi Mitsuhide, Ishida Mitsunari, Naoe Kanetsugu, Maeda Keiji, and Sanada Yukimura were all subordinates of the men above. (Though Yukimura's older brother, Nobuyuki, was a daimyou)

In the time of Ikemen Sengoku, we have the shogun (or ex-shogun, I suppose) Ashikaga Yoshiaki. It's Complicated, but suffice it to say that Nobunaga had helped him to power as a sort of puppet shogun and then removed him from it, and Yoshiaki did not take this very well. He became a rallying point for those looking to oppose Nobunaga's rise to power and hence his role as a villain in our story.

SO, technically, at the time of our story nobody really is in charge exactly, and that's half the problem. The Emperor exists offstage in Ikesen, and the Imperial Court is always a force that has to be taken into consideration, but Nobunaga is generally adept at maintaining a positive relationship with it. It isn't until after Nobunaga manages to bring almost half of the previously fractured provinces of Japan under his control, and the unification he begins is continued by Hideyoshi and ultimately solidified by Ieyasu, that a new shogun rises to power and maintains the Tokugawa shogunate for the next three centuries or so.

If you're interested in a brief rundown on the shogunate and how it worked, this video is really useful and entertaining for giving you a good grasp on the basics. And here's another from the same channel that gives a cool visual history of Japan, but I've linked the timestamp to the Sengoku period for you here. I hope that helped, rather than made things more confusing? I obviously didn't even touch on some of the other characters in the game or how Kennyo and the Ikkou-ikki opposed Nobunaga - if you have more questions about them, feel free to ask!