odaclan:Nobunaga appears as one of the characters in a movie about Shingen’s father, Takeda No
odaclan:Nobunaga appears as one of the characters in a movie about Shingen’s father, Takeda Nobutora. This movie is advertized as one that puts emphasis on machinations and dialogue, as Nobutora works to ensure the Takeda’s continued survival, and as such is not a swashbuckling drama with heroic fight scenes.The story does not cover Nobutora’s prime era as the lord of Kai, but his twilight years. I suspect it’s written that way so that they can have the excuse of showing the Takeda’s famous rivals, such and Uesugi Kenshin and (of course) Nobunaga. Though, Nobutora really does maintain some his political influence with the people of the capital despite being removed from Kai by Shingen, so it’s not like the writers are making things up under flimsy pretenses. Nobutora also outlived Shingen, so maybe the “struggle for survival” plotline is something that occurred in light of Shingen’s death.The Nobunaga appearance in this movie is based on Kano Eitoku’s portrait, that was supposed to have been commissioned for Nobunaga’s funeral.:Though this portrait is less famous than the “classic” one with the green kataginu and red and white kosode (done by Eitoku’s brother Soushuu), Eitoku was the painter who supposedly had personally met Nobunaga, so his works are ostensibly the “more accurate” version of Nobunaga’s portraits.Also interesting is that the hairstyles the samurai wear in this movie are the folded knot hairdo. A lot of Taiga dramas and movies tend to prefer ponytails and the odd stick-like bundled hair, but the male characters in this movie mostly wear the “more correct” orimage hair style, as seen in the many daimyou portraits from the Sengoku:This typical “stick” hair commonly seen in other movies and dramas seem to be an interpretation of the “chasenmage” hairdo, but it’s based more on Kabuki and Ukiyo-e tradition, rather than actual Sengoku era text or information: -- source link