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Sengoku fun facts is this year joint project between myself and Edgekagami :iconedgekagami: , every month we will present a new tibit for this year

Notes:
Samurai families during the Sengoku era often give their sons childhood names based on the birth order of the boy. The boys will carry on the names till they have their coming of age ceremony when they will adopt an adult name
and this is usually the name history books know them by

However the Sanada family are stranger than most as the order of which the sons are name as seen above are not necessary in birth order. With Nobuyuki the eldest being called '3rd son' & Yukimaru the younger being called '2nd son'

Some believe that the family have a superstition that the first born son is fated by the gods to die young and thus the family name the oldest son something like 'third son' to hide the child from the gods

My own theory is that when Nobuyuki was born, father Masayuki was adopted out to be the head of the Muto clan (A branch family of Shingen's mother). However Masayuki's 2 older brothers,  Nobutsuna & Masateru, had no male heirs.

Thus there was a high possibility that Nobuyuki would be adopted back into the Sanada clan as the 3rd generation head. Thus the '3rd' was meant that Nobuyuki would be returned to the Sanada.

Yukimaru born a year later would then be expected to inherit that Muto clan and didn't follow the Sanada line of succession.


For those who are interested, part 2 is up
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Later Chapters
(Oda Nobunaga) fav.me/d8mormj
(Kuroda Kanbei) fav.me/d8rm4oj
(Masanori) fav.me/d8wckqo
(Ginchiyo Tachibana) fav.me/d93fy0z
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(Koshō)   fav.me/d9tjy0n
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AngelERenoir's avatar
Shingen died in 1573 tho. I think that should be Takeda Katsuyori, not Shingen. Or maybe it's Shingen, but the date is wrong.