Takenaka Shigeharu
- Shigeharu is often likened to Zhuge Liang of Romance of Three Kingdoms. This is mostly due to a romanticized tale of Hideyoshi needing to visit Shigeharu many times before gaining his services, much similar to Liu Bei's three visits to Zhuge Liang.
- Shigeharu (as Hanbei) is featured in the game Sengoku Basara 2 by Capcom. Voice actor Akira Ishida voices him. He wields a whipsword and is shown to be very physically weak and ill. Despite his impending death due to his illness, he is very faithfully devoted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
- He also appears as Hanbei in Samurai Warriors 3 where he is depicted as a young precocious teenager fighting with a bladed sundial. He is shown to have a close relationship with Kuroda Kanbei.
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