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This category contains historical battles fought as part of the Sengoku period (1467–1603). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Subcategories
[1] [2] Regardless of the dates chosen, the Sengoku period overlaps substantially with the Muromachi period (1336–1573). Takeda Shingen deflects Uesugi Kenshin's strike at the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima during the Sengoku period. This period was characterized by the overthrow of a superior power by a subordinate one.
The Battle of Sekigahara (Shinjitai: 関ヶ原の戦い; Kyūjitai: 關ヶ原の戰い, Hepburn romanization: Sekigahara no Tatakai), was an important battle in Japan which occurred on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month) in what is now Gifu Prefecture, Japan, at the end of the Sengoku period. This battle was fought by the ...
The Battle of Mikatagahara was one of the most famous battles of Takeda Shingen's campaigns and one of "the most notable demonstrations of cavalry tactics" of the Sengoku period. The battle was also Tokugawa Ieyasu's most decisive defeat, featuring the effective annihilation of Ieyasu's army and the daimyo himself only narrowly escaping death ...
The battles were part of the 16th-century Sengoku period, also known as the "Warring States Period", and were little different from other conflicts.After the Ōnin War (1467–77), the Muromachi shōgun ' s system and taxation had increasingly less control outside the province of the capital in Kyoto, and powerful lords began to assert themselves.
The siege of Mount Hiei was a battle of the Sengoku period of Japan fought between Oda Nobunaga and the sōhei (warrior monks) of the monasteries of Enryaku-ji on Mount Hiei near Kyoto on September 30, 1571. It is said that Oda Nobunaga killed all the monks, scholars, priests, women, and children that lived on the mountain in this battle.
[22] [23] It is considered to be the largest casualty battle in the Sengoku period, [24] with loss of estimated 72 percent of Kenshin's army and 62 percent of Shingen's army, but Shingen also lost two of his most important generals during the battle, namely his advisor Yamamoto Kansuke and younger brother Takeda Nobushige. Some more ...
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 ...