Nobuzane was a younger brother of [[Takeda Shingen]]. He was killed in an attack led by [[Sakai Tadatsugu]] and [[Kanamori Nagachika]] during the [[Battle of Nagashino]]. The [[Koyo Gunkan]] records that he occasionally acted as a double for his elder brother Shingen. His son Nobutoshi entered the service of the Tokugawa after the fall of the [[Takeda clan|Takeda]] in [[1582]].
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Nobuzane was a younger half-brother of [[Takeda Shingen]], the identity of his mother being unknown, and was known by the adopted surname Kawakubo.
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He was killed in an attack led by [[Sakai Tadatsugu]] and [[Kanamori Nagachika]] during the [[Battle of Nagashino]]. The [[Koyo Gunkan]] records that he occasionally acted as a double for his elder brother Shingen.
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His son Nobutoshi entered the service of the Tokugawa after the fall of the [[Takeda clan|Takeda]] in [[1582]]. Nobutoshi had earlier succeeded Nobuzane's elder brother [[Matsuo Nobukore]], who died in 1571 without an heir. To this end, Nobutoshi had been married to Nobukore's daughter. Nobutoshi's son Nobusada would revert to the Takeda surname.
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* ''[[Koyo Gunkan|The Koyo Gunkan]]'' (Edited by Yoshida Toyo) 19th edition, Tokyo, August 2005.