
Statue of Nariaki Uesugi in the Golden Pavilion at Kyoto, Japan 5. At the same time, neither of them are playable without modification. If players modified the timeline, they still can use Noriaki until his death. Unlike Takachika, Noriaki's timeline is placed before the game starts. Later, he started a centralization reform and eventually held more power than the Takauji. In 1392, the southern court declined being united by Noriaki.

They were the Northern Imperial Court of Ashikaga Takauji in Kyoto, and a Southern Imperial Court of Emperor Go-Daigo in Yoshino. He is the shogunate who united Japan from the Nanboku-Cho, a period of time when there were two imperial courts rivaling each other and claimed to be emperor of Japan. Noriaki is the Daimyo of the Uesugi Clan. Mori Takachika statue in Yamaguchi, Japan 6. Even though he is playable, it isn't until the very end of the game and he can hardly be used, hence the reason I put him in last place. Takachika is only playable if players modified the timeline in game. Afterward, he proposed to westernize and became a major player in the Meiji Restoration. However, it resulted in defeat at Shimonoseki. At first, he was loyal to the emperor and tried to expel foreign imperialists and let Japan stay in isolation. In that period, the Tokogawa Shogunate were facing imperialist threats from the Western world. Takachika is the Daimyo of the Mori Clan in1837.

I will refer to them as the "four military stats" in the list below. As all of them are "perfect rulers", I ranked them on their availability in game and their fixed military stat for firing, shocking, maneuver and siege, which are rated by their performance in historical battles. There are seven "perfect rulers" throughout the whole game.
