Define effeminate? The man literally died from partying too hard and spent most of his life at war, so not really sure if thats what you would call such.I see.
Is it true that historically, Uesugi was depicted as effeminate?
And there was really no daimyo that controlled the Tohoku region of Japan before the unification, right?
The rise of Uesugi is rather easy to butterfly away though, relying on a slightly convoluted series of events to get Kenshin to where he was, if you want to go the Takeda route. The Takeda clan had a habit of angering all their neighbors at the same time with their belligerent expansionism though. Which really might not be as big a problem as it seems, since this is the Sengoku era.