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Japanese ashigaru firing hinawajū.Night-shooting practice, using ropes to maintain proper firing elevation. Tanegashima (), most often called in Japanese and sometimes in English hinawajū (火縄銃, "matchlock gun"), was a type of matchlock-configured [1] arquebus [2] firearm introduced to Japan through the Portuguese Empire in 1543. [3]
The Battle of Noryang, the last major battle of the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598), was fought between the Japanese navy and the combined fleets of the Joseon Kingdom and the Ming dynasty. It took place in the early morning of 16 December (19 November in the Lunar calendar ) 1598 and ended past dawn.
The effectiveness of the arquebus was apparent by the Battle of Cerignola of 1503, which is the earliest-recorded military conflict where arquebuses played a decisive role in the outcome of the battle. [50] In Russia, a small arquebus called pishchal (Russian: пищаль) appeared in 1478 in Pskov.
The battle is often cited as a turning point in Japanese warfare and as the first "modern" battle in Japan, as it was the battle in which Oda Nobunaga defeated the cavalry of the Takeda army with his powerful arquebusiers, using tanegashima. [7] [8]
Warring-States Japan Battle Dataset – 2,889 battles occurring within Japan during the Sengoku period; Sengoku Period – World History Encyclopedia; Samurai Archives Japanese History page (In Japanese) Sengoku Expo: Japanese Design, Culture in the Age of Civil Wars held in Gifu Prefecture, 2000–2001 (In Japanese) List of the Sengoku Daimyos
The Battle of Sekigahara was the largest battle of Japanese feudal history and is often regarded as the most important. Mitsunari's defeat in the battle of Sekigahara is generally considered to be the beginning point of the Tokugawa shogunate , which ruled Japan for another two and a half centuries until 1868.
Battle of Nyoigatake (1509) ja:如意ケ嶽の戦い; Battle of Nagamorihara (1510) ja:長森原の戦い; Siege of Gongenyama (1510) Siege of Arai (1516) Battle of Arita-Nakaide (1517) ja:有田中井手の戦い; Battle of Iidagawara (1521) Ningbo Turmoil (1523) ja:寧波の乱; Siege of Edo (1524) Siege of Kamakura (1526) Battle of ...
The Battle of Fukuda Bay (福田浦の戦い, Fukudaura no tatakai) in 1565 was the first recorded naval battle between Europeans (the Portuguese) and the Japanese. [2] A flotilla of samurai under the daimyo Matsura Takanobu attacked two Portuguese trade vessels that had shunned Matsura's port in Hirado and had gone instead to trade at Fukuda ...