Battles & Wars

In 1560, an Imagawa army of about 25,000 men sat down to a victory feast in a wooded valley west […]

At around eleven in the morning on the 30th of July 1570 — the 28th day of the sixth lunar

Akechi Mitsuhide was a head of state for eleven days. On 21 June 1582 he rode into the Honnō-ji compound

On the morning of 10 October 1561 — old lunar calendar; the Gregorian date is 28 October, though the Japanese

On the morning of 19 May 1560 — the 12 June in the Gregorian calendar, though the Japanese sources will

The best cavalry in Japan died standing in front of a fence. This is the simplest way to summarise what

The battle that decided the next 260 years of Japanese history was over by lunchtime. On 15 September 1600, a

The Battle of Komaki-Nagakute is the one engagement Tokugawa Ieyasu ever fought directly against Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It lasted seven months

Sometime in the winter of 1573 or the spring of 1574, the Tokugawa household records are ambiguous on the date,

The Battle of Shizugatake was decided before it was fought. Specifically, it was decided during a five-hour forced march that