During the Edo period, Shingen as well as other Sengoku daimyos (Japanese territorial lord in the Sengoku period) together attempted to record, in the form of a gunkimono (war tales), various images of Kenshin such as a military warrior, Hottai (religious appearance) busho or a Buddhist monk, in the style of Buddhist painting.
江戸時代には信玄はじめ他の戦国諸大名と同様に軍記物による影響を受け、軍陣武者像や法体武将像、仏画風僧侶像など多様な謙信のイメージが確立する。