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Battle of Temmokuzan

Date	1582
Location	Temmoku Mountain, Kai Province, Japan
Result	Takeda forces wiped out

Belligerents

Forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga

Forces of Takeda Katsuyori Oyamada Nobushige

Commanders

Tokugawa Ieyasu, Oda Nobunaga

Takeda Katsuyori† Oyamada Nobushige

Strength

20,000

9,000

Casualties and losses

Unknown

Entire army destroyed, Katsuyori commits suicide.

Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga

Inō – Ukino – Okehazama – Azukizaka – Chōkō-ji – Kanegasaki – Anegawa – Ishiyama Hongan-ji – Mount Hiei – Nagashima – Mikatagahara – Hikida Castle – Odani Castle – Ichijōdani Castle – Itami – Nagashino – Mitsuji – Kizugawaguchi – Shigisan – Tedorigawa – Hijiyama – Temmokuzan – Uozu – Honnō-ji

Campaigns of the Takeda

Nashinokidaira – Un no Kuchi – Sezawa – Uehara – Kuwabara – Fukuyo – Nagakubo – Kojinyama – Takatō 1545 – Ryūgasaki – Uchiyama – Odaihara – Shika – Uedahara – Shirojiritoge – Fukashi – Toishi – Katsurao – Kiso Fukushima – Kannomine – Matsuo – Kawanakajima – Musashi-Matsuyama – Kuragano – Minowa – Hachigata 1568 – Odawara 1569 – Mimasetoge – Kanbara – Hanazawa – Fukazawa – Futamata – Mikatagahara – Iwamura – Noda – Takatenjin 1574 – Yoshida – Nagashino – Omosu – Takatenjin 1581 – Temmokuzan – Takatō 1582

The 1582 Battle of Temmokuzan (天目山の戦い, Temmokuzan no Tatakai^?) in Japan, 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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