here are some other reasons kenshin was she...
due to bellyache cause unkown, often stopped/postponed the battles around 10th of each month:
lunar calendar holds 30 days for each month, according to some records.
no wives, no kids.
wore this fascinating, red kimono....preserved at uesugi jinjya/shrine in yonezawa, yamagata
http://niigata.cool.ne.jp/montitti/_private/kurenai.htm
上杉神社 jinja pics
jpn versions of jeanne of darc/female lords were not uncommon then....mino-gozen, aunt of nobunaga, who was a lord at mino-iwamura castle, made resistence against him...later captured/brought to a
gifu castle and beheaded by her nephews own hands.... btwy heard vaticans library records show lots of female warriors names as crusaders...
said to have ordered and used an armor mask with mustache/beard figures, that type of armor with mus one was/became very popular in sengoku/early edo period as trousseau....
Loading... kenshins... oops, doesnt show mus...
in edo period togugawas law allows only the 1st son as a succeeding family head, so in some cases married-into/in-law son was a must otherwise that
han would be nullified/confiscated and other tokugawa related clans would take over...., so uesugi han had to hide the fact that....