Moreover, it is said that some of the commanders (mainly the Taira family series including the Odawara-Hojo family) during the Sengoku period (period of warring states) had make up as intense as a woman to the extent of even blackening their teeth when they proceeded to the battlefield in order that they did not look bad even if they were struck in the head.
又、一部の戦国武将(主に小田原北条家をはじめとする平家系)は戦場に赴くにあたり首を打たれても見苦しくないように、ということから女性並みの化粧をし、お歯黒まで付けた、という。