Historic Japanese Battles

The Sengoku Period or "warring-states" period, is a period of long civil war in the history of Japan that spans from the middle 15th to the early 17th centuries.

The Battle of Nagashino on June 28, 1575 took place at Nagashino Castle in the Mikawa of Japan, considered the first "modern" Japanese battle. Takeda's cavalry charge represented the old, traditional, means of warfare, invented by his father, Takeda Shingen, less than a generation earlier. Others had used firearms previously, but Oda Nobunaga was the first to conceive of the wooden stockades and rotating volleys of fire which led to a decisive victory at Nagashino. The famous Takeda clan, once a hopeful candidate to rule Japan, was effectively annihilated.

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The Battle of Sekigahara was a decisive battle on September 15, 1600 that cleared the path to the Shogunate for Tokugawa Ieyasu. Though it would take three more years for Tokugawa to consolidate his position of power over the Toyotomi clan and the daimyo, Sekigahara is widely considered to be the unofficial beginning of the Tokugawa bakufu, the last shogunate to control Japan.

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The Battles of Kawanakajima were fought between Takeda Shingen of Kai province and Uesugi Kenshin of Echigo province in the plain of Kawanakajima, in the north of Shinano Province, very near the modern-day city of Nagano.

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