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Siege of Yoshida Castle, the Glossary

The 1575 siege of Yoshida Castle was undertaken by Takeda Katsuyori against the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sengoku Period of Japanese history.^[1]

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Aichi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū.

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The was a famous battle in Japanese history, fought in 1575 at Nagashino in Mikawa Province (present-day Nagashino, Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture). Siege of Yoshida Castle and battle of Nagashino are 1575 in Japan, battles of the Sengoku period, Conflicts in 1575 and Sieges involving Japan.

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History of Japan

The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Mikawa Province

was an old province in the area that today forms the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture.

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Sakai Tadatsugu

was one of the most favored and most successful military commanders serving Tokugawa Ieyasu in the late Sengoku period.

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Sengoku period

The, is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Takeda clan

The was a Japanese samurai clan active from the late Heian period until the late 16th century.

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Takeda Katsuyori

was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period, who was famed as the head of the Takeda clan and the successor to the legendary warlord Takeda Shingen.

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Tokugawa clan

The Tokugawa clan (Shinjitai: 徳川氏, Kyūjitai: 德川氏, Tokugawa-shi or Tokugawa-uji) is a Japanese dynasty which produced the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868 during the Edo period.

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Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

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