賤ヶ岳の七本槍 Shizugatake no shichi-hon-yari

In 1583, the year after Oda Nobunaga’s death at Honnoji (the Honno-ji Incident), there was a power struggle between Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi and Shibata Katsuie. The Seven Spears of Shizugatake were 7 young samurai warriors (Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Katagiri Katsumoto, Wakizaka Yasuharu, Kato Yoshiaki, Hirano Nagayasu and Kasuya Takenori) who crushed their enemy and brought victory to Hideyoshi.