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 | | ming of age ceremony, and in the year of 1551 changed his name once again, this time to the well-known "Takeda Shingen". |
 | | After he had conquered Shinano, Shingen (who had changed his name to this in 1551) faced another rival - Uesugi Kenshin's forces clearing a path through the Takeda troops and Kenshin engaging Shingen in single combat. |
 | | The future of all of Japan was now in the balance, as Takeda Shingen, at 49 years of age, was the one daimyo with the power, position, and skill necessary to stop, Takeda Shingen easily defeated the combined armies of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu; but he could not defeat old age. |
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