Sanada Yukimura (çç° å¹¸æ, 1567 â June 3, 1615), actual name: Sanada Nobushige (çç° ä¿¡ç¹), was a Japanese samurai warrior of the Sengoku period. He was especially known as the leading general on the defending side of the Siege of Osaka. Yukimura was called “A Hero who may appear once in a hundred years”, “Crimson Demon of War” and “The Last Sengoku Hero”. The famed veteran of the invasion of Korea, Shimazu Tadatsune, called him the “Number one warrior in Japan”
The Sengoku period (æ¦å½æ代, Sengoku Jidai, “Warring States period”) is a period in Japanese history of near-constant civil war, social upheaval, and political intrigue from 1467 to 1615.
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