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battle of Temmokuzan

Battle of Temmokuzan
Part of the Sengoku period
Date 1582
Location Temmoku Mountain, Kai Province, Japan
Result Takeda forces wiped out
Combatants
forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga forces of Takeda Katsuyori
Commanders
Tokugawa Ieyasu, Oda Nobunaga Takeda Katsuyori
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties
Unknown Entire army destroyed, Katsuyori commits suicide.

The 1582 battle of Temmokuzan, also known as the battle of Toriibata, is regarded as the last stand of the Takeda family. This was the final attempt by Takeda Katsuyori to resist the combined forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga, who had been campaigning against him for some time.

In his bid to hide from his pursuers, Katsuyori burned his castle at Shinpujō and fled into the mountains, to another Takeda stronghold, called Iwadono, and held by Oyamada Nobushige, an old Takeda retainer. Katsuyori was denied entry by Oyamada, and committed suicide while his army held off their pursuers.

References

  • Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.

 
 
 

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