Takeda Shingen (武田信玄) is a 1988 Japanese historical television series.
[1] It had the second highest average viewership rating in its history with only a 0.5% difference to the previous year's Taiga drama One-Eyed Dragon Masamune.
The series focuses on the life of Takeda Shingen during the Sengoku period.
[2] The narrator is Takeda Shingen's mother, Ōi-no-kata, who tells the story to the audience.
Even when she dies mid-way through the main story, it is her spirit who continues to narrate the events and watch over her son until the very end.