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Sengoku Japan

1467 CE – 1615 CE

A century of civil war among the daimyō — from the Ōnin War through Nobunaga and Hideyoshi to Tokugawa's victory at Sekigahara and the Siege of Osaka.

347 events · 381 people · 3 eras

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Key events

  1. Ōnin War1467 CE
    15th-century civil war in Japan
  2. Battle of Sekigahara1600 CE
    The Battle of Sekigahara was an important battle in Japan which occurred on October 21, 1600 in what is now Gifu Prefecture, Japan, at the end of the Sengoku period.
  3. Siege of Osaka1614 CE
    1614-1615 series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan
  4. Honnō-ji Incident1582 CE
    forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the hands of traitor Akechi Mitsuhide
  5. Battle of Okehazama1560 CE
    The Battle of Okehazama took place on 12 June 1560 in Owari Province, in today's Aichi Prefecture. In this battle, the heavily outnumbered Oda clan troops, commanded by Oda Nobunaga, defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto and established Oda as one of the front-running warlords in the Sengoku period.
  6. Battle of Nagashino1575 CE
    The Battle of Nagashino was a famous battle in Japanese history, fought in 1575 at Nagashino in Mikawa Province. The allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu (38,000) fought against Takeda Katsuyori's forces (15,000) and the allied forces won a crushing victory over the Takeda clan. As a result, Oda Nobunaga's unification of Japan was seen as certain.
  7. Battles of Kawanakajima1553 CE
    The Battles of Kawanakajima were a series of battles fought in the Sengoku period of Japan between Takeda Shingen of Kai Province and Uesugi Kenshin of Echigo Province from 1553 to 1564. Shingen and Kenshin contested each other for control of the plain of Kawanakajima between the Sai River and Chikuma River in northern Shinano Province, located in the present-day city of Nagano. The battles were triggered after Shingen conquered Shinano, expelling Ogasawara Nagatoki and Murakami Yoshikiyo, who subsequently turned to Kenshin for help.
  8. Battle of Anegawa1570 CE
    The Sengoku period Battle of Anegawa occurred near Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province, Japan, between the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, against the combined forces of the Azai and Asakura clans. It is notable as the first battle that involved the alliance between Nobunaga and Ieyasu, and it saw Nobunaga's prodigious use of firearms.
  9. Battle of Yamazaki1582 CE
    The Battle of Yamazaki was fought in 1582 in Yamazaki, Japan, located in current-day Kyoto Prefecture. This battle is sometimes referred to as the Battle of Mt. Tennō.
  10. Battle of Mikatagahara1573 CE
    The Battle of Mikatagahara took place during the Sengoku period of Japan between Takeda Shingen and Tokugawa Ieyasu in Tōtōmi Province on January 25, 1573. Shingen attacked Ieyasu on the plain of Mikatagahara north of Hamamatsu during his campaign against Oda Nobunaga while seeking a route from Kōfu to Kyoto. The Tokugawa-Oda force was almost totally annihilated by the Takeda after being encircled and many of Ieyasu's retainers were killed in the battle. Ieyasu and his surviving men were forced to retreat before launching a minor counterattack to delay Shingen's march towards Kyoto.
  11. Battle of Shizugatake1583 CE
    The Battle of Shizugatake took place during the Sengoku period of Japan between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Shibata Katsuie in Shizugatake, Ōmi Province over a period of two days beginning on the 20th day of the fourth month of Tenshō 11. Katsuie supported Oda Nobutaka's claim as successor of Oda Nobunaga in a succession dispute within the Oda clan that benefitted Hideyoshi.
  12. Siege of Odawara1590 CE
    1590

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Muromachi period1336 CE – 1573 CEAzuchi–Momoyama period1573 CE – 1603 CEEdo period1603 CE – 1868 CE

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