Masatane Hara

Masatane Hara was a retainer of Takeda and was known as one of the Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen. He was placed as sixty-first in Nobunaga no Yabou 201X poll for 3-star officers.

Role in Games
In Samurai Warriors: Xtreme Legends and Samurai Warriors 4, assigned him as the general of Takeda in stage Nagashino. When player play as Oda side, will be told to lure Hara and Sanada Nobutsuna into the fence. When performing the mission received, there will be a cutscene showing Oda soldiers firing a gun against Takeda soldiers along with Hara and Sanada Nobutsuna and them all died

Historical Information
He was a son of Hara Masatoshi and was a younger relative of Hara Toratane. In 1561, he served as spy along with Atobe katsusuke, Sone Toranaga and Tsuchiya Masatsugu to do a mission to monitor the people in Ueno Province. In addition, he serve Yamagata Masakage during the battle against Hōjō in Mimasetoge in 1567. Later he was killed in the forefront of the fighting in the Nagashino in 1575. After he died, he was recorded in Kōyō Gunkan by Obata Kanbei who is scribe of Tokugawa.