Yamamoto Kansuke

[Unkotare]

Japan: The one-eyed general Yamamoto Kansuke (1501-1561) fatally injured. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), 1845-1846

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Yamamoto Kansuke was a famous strategist and one of the most trusted of Takeda Shingen's famed 24 generals. Despite being born with a number of physical deformities and missing one eye, he was a highly skilled swordsman as well as a brilliant strategist.

 

[whitehall]

Hard to believe the lack of depth perception from having only one working eye might have led to success as a swordsman but that's the way legends work.

 

[Unkotare]

Hard to believe the lack of depth perception from having only one working eye might have led to success as a swordsman but that's the way legends work.

He had one bad leg too.

 

[Lastamender]

He had one bad leg too.

Not a Ninja?

 

[Unkotare]

Not a Ninja?

No.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Hard to believe the lack of depth perception from having only one working eye might have led to success as a swordsman but that's the way legends work.

Saburo Sakai killed a number of Allied fighter pilots after losing the sight in one eye over Guadalcanal. he was the third ranking IJN ace and, I believe, the highest scoring one to survive the war. Most of his kills were in China or early in the war before allied aircraft overcame the superiority of the Zero.