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66-500: Terumasa was the 2nd son and heir of Ikeda Nobuteru , Terumasa held Ikejiri Castle ( Mino Province ) In 1579, during the Siege of Itami (1574) , Terumasa was stationed at Settsukura Bridge with his father. Then later in 1580, during the Siege of Hanakuma castle, they camped at Kitasuwagamine, and on March 2nd, Terumasa performed notable action where he personally killed six enemies during

132-518: A brief but bloodless confrontation at Numata Castle with Masayuki and Yukimura before the siege of Ueda began in earnest. Hidetada, being unexperienced in warfare at 21 years old, besieged Ueda Castle and its commander Sanada Masayuki unsuccessfully until 16 October, at which point he realised his delay and broke the siege to continue westward along the Nakasendō. He would still, however, only rendezvous with his disappointed father's forces late in

198-491: A castle in Aizu and expand its fortifications and road networks. On 7 May 1600, Ieyasu dispatched a letter to Kagekatsu demanding an explanation, Kagekatsu's chief advisor, Naoe Kanetsugu responded with mocking refusal. Subsequent negotiations broke down, with Kagekatsu even attempting to have one of Ieyasu's envoys killed as a spy, and after Kagekatsu refused to present in person at Ōsaka to account for his actions, Ieyasu summoned

264-462: A daughter. There are various theories as to his birthplace (including the Owari , Mino , Settsu and Ōmi provinces ). He was one of the four karō at Kiyosu Castle . His official position was Kii-no- kami (紀伊守), or "Governor of Kii Province ". His courtesy name was Shōzaburō (勝三郎). He later became a priest and referred to himself as Shōnyū (勝入). In 1556, he defeated Oda Nobuyuki , who

330-646: A force to relieve the defenders. The Uesugi conflict with the Date and Mogami would outlast the Sekigahara Campaign proper, with a subsequent abortive attempt by Date Masamune to take Fukushima Castle defeated in battle at Matsukawa on 28 May 1601. In the run-up to hostilities, Nabeshima Naoshige of Saga Domain intended to support the Tokugawa; however, his son Katsushige was present at Mitsunari's war council on 17 August and swayed him towards joining

396-444: A legal conflict between those generals with Mitsunari, rather than a conspiracy to murder him. The role of Ieyasu here was not to physically protect Mitsunari from any physical harm from them, but to mediate the complaints of those generals. Nevertheless, historians viewed this incident not just as simply personal problems between those generals and Mitsunari, but rather as an extension of the political rivalries of greater scope between

462-629: A letter from Western Army commander Kobayakawa Hideaki offering to defect to the Eastern Army. On 17 October Ieyasu reached Kiyosu Castle, intending to bypass Ōgaki entirely to threaten Sawayama Castle or Ōsaka, and 2 days later he had arrived at Gifu Castle. Ieyasu arrived in Akasaka around noon on 20 October, meeting up with the main body of the Tōkaidō Corps, and encamped on the hill at Okayama. Western Army generals convinced Mitsunari to permit

528-579: A member of the council, installed himself in Hideyoshi's former residence of Fushimi Castle and arranged political marriages for his children in defiance of the council's restriction on doing so, drawing political ire. Ishida Mitsunari , one of the Five Commissioners appointed to civil administration by Hideyoshi, attempted to approach Maeda Toshiie , a councilman and guardian of Hideyori, at Ōsaka Castle to conspire against Ieyasu; however,

594-515: A report from a servant of Toyotomi Hideyori named Jiemon Kuwajima, and fled to Satake Yoshinobu 's mansion together with Shima Sakon and others to hide. When the seven generals found out that Mitsunari was not in the mansion, they searched the mansions of various feudal lords in Osaka Castle, and Kato's army also approached the Satake residence. Therefore, Mitsunari and his party escaped from

660-460: A separate formation at the Eastern Army's left flank at the foot of Mount Nangu. While both sides became aware of each others' positions at dawn, a thick fog halted plans initially and battle was not commenced until 8am when the fog cleared. The subsequent battle of Sekigahara saw a decisive defeat for the Western Army, with Mitsunari's contingent annihilated by Kobayakawa Hideaki defecting to

726-465: A testing raid, and Shima Sakon and Akashi Masataka led a small force to attack the Eastern Army at the Kuisegawa river near Ōgaki, mauling the Eastern Army and forcing them to retreat to Sekigahara to regroup. That night, Shimazu Yoshihiro with Ukita Hideie 's support suggested a night assault on the exhausted Eastern Army troops, but was opposed by Shima Sakon who convinced Mitsunari to decline

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792-636: A war council on 12 July to plan a punitive expedition. On 24 July, Ieyasu departed from Ōsaka Castle for his punitive campaign, stopping at Fushimi Castle the next night to give his retainer Torii Mototada instructions against a likely Ishida-backed assault before continuing towards Aizu. Ieyasu was wary of a sudden attack by Mitsunari and his allies, and so he marched at a slow pace to monitor his rivals' movements, arriving in Edo on 10 August where he began mustering troops. Date Masamune and his uncle Mogami Yoshiaki , rulers of Sendai and Yamagata respectively on

858-608: The Azai - Asakura alliance and became the lord of Inuyama Castle . In 1571, Tsuneoki took part in the burning Siege of Mount Hiei to subdue the followers of the Ishiyama-Honganji; attacks against the Nagashima Ikkō-ikki. In 1573, he participated in the Siege of Makishima Castle against Ashikaga Yoshiaki . Yoshiaki surrendered, and sending Yoshihiro, his eldest son, as a hostage to Nobunaga. In 1574, he entered

924-689: The Tōkaidō and the Nakasendō , the main roads linking Edo and the capital of Kyoto . However, battles and sieges far from these key highways, both in the Tōhoku and in pockets of resistance around the capital, had wide-reaching effects on the manoeuvring and availability of troops for the decisive battle at Sekigahara. The campaign also spilled over briefly into the southern island of Kyūshū , but Ieyasu quickly ordered his forces to stand down following his victory for political reasons. The campaign dramatically changed

990-508: The katana 's blade. Work of Kanehira from Bizen Province, owned by Ikeda Terumasa and passed down in the Ikeda clan . Ikeda Nobuteru Ikeda Tsuneoki ( 池田 恒興 , 1536 – May 18, 1584) , also known as Ikeda Nobuteru (池田 信輝), was an Ikeda clan daimyō and military commander under Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period and Azuchi–Momoyama periods of 16th-century Japan. He

1056-613: The 21 October after the Western Army bombarded the castle from Mount Nagara, by which point the Western besiegers, like Onoki Shigekatsu's troops at Tanabe, were too late to join the decisive battle at Sekigahara. On 29 August, Ieyasu had established a base of operations in Oyama , and by 1 September Ieyasu began relocating 50,000 troops mustered in Edo north to Oyama, preparing to strike at Kagekatsu in Aizu but not expecting to do so, believing

1122-569: The 4,000-strong second division under Honmura Chikamori and Yokota Munetoshi besieged Kaminoyama Castle south of Yamagata, held by the Mogami retainer Satomi Minbu; the Uesugi forces conquered it but suffered setbacks thanks to a Mogami counterattack, losing Chikamori in battle and delaying the second division's approach towards Yamagata. The third division, comprising 3,000 men under Shida Yoshihide and Shimo Yoshitada, also advanced towards Yonegawa from

1188-414: The Date, Mogami and Maeda forces sufficient to halt the Uesugi advance. With the news of the fall of Fushimi, Ieyasu quickly returned to Edo by 10 September, already planning a westward return. Eager to secure the crossroads near Gifu Castle now threatened by the Western Army at Ōgaki Castle, Ieyasu sent Fukushima Masanori , Kuroda Nagamasa , Honda Tadakatsu , Ii Naomasa and Hosokawa Tadaoki ahead along

1254-536: The Eastern Army and rolling down the formation's right flank, while after a smaller engagement and the treachery of Kikkawa Hiroie forced the eastern formation under Mōri Hidemoto to withdraw rather than join battle. From 21 to 30 October, Ōgaki Castle was subsequently besieged and taken by the Eastern Army, while on 22 October Kobayakawa Hideaki began besieging Sawayama, ostensibly as a sign of penance and loyalty to Ieyasu; Ishida Masazumi, Mitsunari's brother and commander at Sawayama, capitulated and committed suicide on

1320-479: The Eastern army advances. However, several developments of war forced him to abort the plan as: This forced Mitsunari to prepare for the open engagement on the field of Sekigahara . Meanwhile in Ōsaka, Mōri clan retainer Kikkawa Hiroie was enraged by Mitsunari confining Mōri Terumoto, nominal commander-in-chief of the Western Army, to the castle, and in response to the insult Hiroie secretly communicated with

1386-583: The Keichō Dewa Campaign, was the key flashpoint providing the casus belli for the Sekigahara Campaign at large, and largely consisted of actions by the Uesugi clan against the combined forces of Mogami Yoshiaki and Date Masamune in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Ieyasu's troops northward from Edo. In the course of responding to the Uesugi clan's mobilisation prior to the declaration of war, Date Masamune seized Shiroishi Castle south of Sendai from

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1452-548: The Sanada clan. After dispatching the Tōkaidō Corps, Ieyasu sent his son Tokugawa Hidetada along the Nakasendō road with 36,000 men towards Mino, ordering him to threaten Ueda Castle while continuing on to meet the Tōkaidō Corps. He reached Karuizawa on 7 October and subsequently arrived in Komoro on 12 October; however, there he disobeyed his father's orders and instead marched on Ueda, encaping at Sometani. Komatsuhime herself had

1518-470: The Satake residence and barricaded themselves at Fushimi Castle . The next day, the seven generals surrounded Fushimi Castle with their soldiers as they knew Mitsunari was hiding there. Tokugawa Ieyasu , who was in charge of political affairs in Fushimi Castle trying to arbitrate the situation. The seven generals requested Ieyasu to hand over Mitsunari, which refused by Ieyasu. Ieyasu then negotiated

1584-560: The Tokugawa faction and the anti-Tokugawa faction led by Mitsunari. Since this incident, those military figures who were on bad terms with Mitsunari would later support Ieyasu during the conflict of Sekigahara between the Eastern army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Western army led by Ishida Mitsunari. Muramatsu Shunkichi, writer of " The Surprising Colors and Desires of the Heroes of Japanese History and violent womens ”, gave his assessment that

1650-520: The Tokugawa, but was initially blocked from supporting the campaign due to an internal conflict with the pro-Western faction within the Maeda clan led by his brother Toshimasa in Noto Province . Toshinaga eventually laid siege to Daishōji Castle on 7 September, prompting the suicide of the garrison commander and Toshimasa's capitulation. The northern campaign in and around Dewa province, known as

1716-466: The Tokugawa. The two then began the siege of Yanagawa in Chikugo Province , defended by Tachibana Muneshige and Tachibana Ginchiyo. The Tachibana troops continued to hold out in the castle, with Ginchiyo organising an ad-hoc militia of nuns to slow the advance of the Eastern Army, donning armour herself to serve as Muneshige's rearguard. Muneshige eventually surrendered the castle following

1782-775: The Tōkaidō Corps promising to keep the 36,000 Mōri troops from engaging the Eastern Army. Mōri Hidemoto, Terumoto's cousin and deputy, also urged Terumoto to defect to the Eastern Army before any engagement occurred. On 29 September, the Tōkaidō Corps occupied the highlands of Akasaka to threaten Ōgaki Castle as Nabeshima Naoshige besieged the Eastern Army stronghold of Matsuoka Castle. The following day, 30,000 Western troops under Mori Hidemoto, Chōsokabe Morichika, and Nabeshima Katsushige besieged An'nōzu Castle, held by Fukuda Nobutaka and his 1,700-strong garrison. Ishida Mitsunari left Ōgaki Castle on 1 October for Sawayama Castle, where he relented and summoned Mōri Terumoto, who had returned to his own domain to raise troops, to return; one messenger

1848-484: The Tōkaidō road with 16,000 men, followed by 15,000 men under Ikeda Terumasa , Asano Yoshinaga and Yamanouchi Kazutoyo , to fortify Masanori's holding of Kiyosu and to seize Gifu Castle from Oda Hidenobu . The combined 31,000 troops of this "Tōkaidō Corps" quickly besieged Gifu on 28 September and forced the capitulation of Hidenobu. At first, Mitsunari want to use Gifu Castle and Ōgaki Castle as choke points to impede

1914-412: The Western Army facilitated his retirement to Kyoto. Ōtsu Castle on the southwest shore of Lake Biwa , garrisoned by Kyōgoku Takatsugu came under siege on 13 October by the 15,000-strong Western forces of Mōri Motoyasu , Tachibana Muneshige and Tsukushi Hirokado , along with a naval blockade by Mashita Nagamori . The staunch resistance of the Eastern Army troops under Takatsugu was only ended on

1980-495: The Western Army had attempted to win over the loyalty of Hosokawa Fujitaka , the father of the Eastern Army general Hosokawa Tadaoki, Mitsunari had alienated Fujitaka during the period following Ieyasu's departure from Ōsaka through an abortive hostage-taking ploy resulting in the death of Tadaoki's wife . Fujitaka had instead fortified Tanabe in Tango Province with 500 men in support of Ieyasu. In mid-August, even prior to

2046-521: The Western Army-aligned Uesugi army in a short siege from the 18–19 August. Masamune's 20,000 troops under Katakura Kagetsuna, Oniniwa Tsunamoto and Yashiro Kageyori attacked Matsukawa, defended by 6,000 defenders under Honjo Shigenaga and Suda Nagayoshi, on October 6, but were repelled. Uesugi Kagekatsu nominated Naoe Kanetsugu to lead the campaign against the Date and Mogami. The three-division invasion of Mogami territory

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2112-608: The Western Army. However, while the Nabeshima forces participated in some operations on Honshu including the assaults on Fushimi and Annotsu, Naoshige eventually recalled Katsushige to Kyūshū prior to the decisive battle at Sekigahara and switched allegiance to the Eastern Army. Tachibana clan head Tachibana Muneshige also joined the Western Army forces under the Mōri clan, leaving the defense of their hegemon Ōtomo clan 's territory to his wife and co-clan head Ginchiyo . However, following

2178-697: The achievements of those generals during the Imjin war against Korea & Chinese empire. However, despite the classical historiography depiction of the event as "seven generals against Mitsunari", modern historian Watanabe Daimon has pointed out there were more generals involved such as Hachisuka Iemasa , Tōdō Takatora , and Kuroda Yoshitaka also brought their troops and entourage to confront Mitsunari. At first, these generals gathered at Kiyomasa's mansion in Osaka Castle , and from there they moved into Mitsunari's mansion. However, Mitsunari learned of this through

2244-405: The assault was repelled, and Kanetsugu retreated leaving a holding force to threaten Hasedō. On November 5, news finally reached Kanetsugu of the defeat at Sekigahara and orders were given to lift the siege entirely, withdrawing the skeleton force to Yonezawa. Date Masamune capitalised on this withdrawal by attempting to besiege Fukushima Castle on 12 November, but withdrew when Uesugi Kagekatsu led

2310-534: The battle. Due to his military exploits, he was awarded a letter of commendation from Nobunaga. In 1584 on April 9th, during the Battle of Nagakute , Terumasa served under the Ikeda Tsuneoki and Mori Nagayoshi who commanded 3,000 and 2,000 soldiers respectively. During this battle, Nagayoshi was shot and killed in action, while Tsuneoki was also killed by Nagai Naokatsu 's spear and died in battle. Terumasa

2376-507: The battle. Ikeda Terumasa, his second son, succeeded him as the new head of the Ikeda clan . Sekigahara Campaign [REDACTED] Eastern Army : Forces loyal to Tokugawa Ieyasu [REDACTED] Western Army : Forces loyal to Ishida Mitsunari The Sekigahara Campaign was a series of battles in Japan fought between the Eastern Army aligned with Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Western Army loyal to Ishida Mitsunari , culminating in

2442-556: The border with the Uesugi clan's territory, returned swiftly to their home provinces to defend against Kagekatsu. Mitsunari immediately began summoning conspirators to Sawayama Castle following Ieyasu's departure, some even being convinced to abandon their journeys to join Ieyasu's campaign such as Ōtani Yoshitsugu . On 17 August Mitsunari's war council resolved to form the Western Army as a coalition against Ieyasu, with councilman Mōri Terumoto as its nominal commander-in-chief. According to

2508-512: The castle and is in charge of guarding the East Country. As for his duties regarding the dispatch of troops to Korea, Terumasa was ordered to build large ships and transport provisions and rice to Nagoya Castle . He also worked on constructing Fushimi Castle and Toyotomi Hideyasu's Yamatotanai Castle. In 1594, Terumasa married to Tokuhime, the daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu with Hideyoshi's mediation. According to popular theory In 1598 after

2574-490: The condition that Mitsunari go into exile in his holding at Sawayama Castle in the spring of 1599. Soon after, Maeda Toshiie died in April, and Toshinaga was elected to replace him; however, Ieyasu himself took up guardianship of Hideyori, occupying Ōsaka Castle on 28 October and further enraging the commissioners and council. Uesugi Kagekatsu , another councilman, defied Ieyasu by militarising, ordering 80,000 men to construct

2640-524: The creation of the Western Army, claiming guardianship of Hideyori. The same day, Mitsunari issued a series of 13 charges against Ieyasu on behalf of the Five Commissioners and three members of the Council of Five Regents. This proclamation effectively marked the declaration of war between the Western and Eastern armies. The first major assault of the Western Army in the region of the capital

2706-487: The day on 21 October, after the Battle of Sekigahara had been fought and decided. Uesugi Kagekatsu's uprising began in earnest even before the Western Army's proclamation, but Date Masamune and Mogami Yoshiaki began responding to hostilities even before the declaration of war. The Satake clan of Kubota Domain declared neutrality in the conflict due to a secret treaty with the Uesugi and the divided sympathies of clan head Satake Yoshinobu . Maeda Toshinaga also declared for

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2772-448: The death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the government of Japan have an accident when seven military generals consisted of Fukushima Masanori , Katō Kiyomasa , Ikeda Terumasa , Hosokawa Tadaoki , Asano Yoshinaga , Katō Yoshiaki , and Kuroda Nagamasa planned a conspiracy to kill Ishida Mitsunari. It was said that the reason of this conspiracy was dissatisfaction of those generals towards Mitsunari as he wrote bad assessments and underreported

2838-403: The decisive Battle of Sekigahara . The conflict was sparked by a punitive expedition led by Ieyasu against the Uesugi clan in the northeastern Tōhoku region , providing Mitsunari with an opportunity to denounce Ieyasu in the name of the infant ruling taikō Toyotomi Hideyori while the Tokugawa troops were in the field. Much of the campaign consisted of a struggle to control key castles on

2904-748: The defeat at Sekigahara which Muneshige could not attend due to the protracted siege of Ōtsu, Muneshige also returned to defend his Kyūshū holdings. Katō Kiyomasa quickly began a campaign in Kyūshū to besiege the holdings of Konishi Yukinaga , a Mōri vassal and rival of Kiyomasa's who had fought under the Western Army at Sekigahara and fled into hiding following the battle. Kuroda Yoshitaka also separately marched on Ōtomo Yoshitsugu 's territory, taking Ishitatewara Castle easily on 19 October. Kiyomasa besieged Udo Castle before meeting up with Kuroda Yoshitaka , who had already conquered several minor locations on Kyūshū, and Nabeshima Katsushige, whose family had defected to

2970-492: The intervention of Hosokawa Tadaoki , a friend of Ieyasu and of the Maeda clan, convinced Toshiie's son Toshinaga to dissuade Toshiie from opposing Ieyasu. Mitsunari resorted to attempting an assassination plot on Ieyasu, but when the plot failed, several of Ieyasu's generals independently attempted to eliminate Mitsunari. Mitsunari infamously escaped the castle at night disguised as a woman and fled to Fushimi Castle to beg Ieyasu to protect him from retaliation. Ieyasu agreed on

3036-427: The letters from Mitsunari to Kagekatsu, it was recorded that Mitsunari also sought cooperation with him to plan a joint attack against Ieyasu army. However, due to lack of coordination, and alleged mistrust from Kagekatsu, in the end he did not move his troops to pursue the Ieyasu's army which were on their way returning to Kyoto as Mitsunari intended. On 22 August 1600, the coalition entered Ōsaka Castle and proclaimed

3102-490: The lord of Ōgaki Castle . In 1584, he fought in the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute on the side of Hideyoshi. He captured Inuyama Castle on his first assault. In May 1584, during Battle of Komaki and Nagakute , Tsuneoki, his eldest son, Ikeda Motosuke, and his son-in-law, Mori Nagayoshi , were killed by Tokugawa Ieyasu 's forces in the Battle at Nagakute. His daughter, Ikeda Sen , and his son, Ikeda Terumasa , survived

3168-527: The mountain fortress of Ori Castle in eastern Mino to pin-down Akechi Castle after it was taken by Takeda Katsuyori . In 1575, he fought in the Battle of Nagashino against the Takeda clan . In 1577, he took part in the Battle of Tedorigawa against the Uesugi clan . In 1580, he beat Araki Murashige at Siege of Hanakuma Castle, who locked himself in the castle and was given Murashige's domain at Settsu Province . In 1582, he led 4000 troops, acted as

3234-402: The north via Shōnai. Kanetsugu arrived at Hasedō Castle on 21 October, the day of the Battle of Sekigahara , commencing the Siege of Hasedō . During the course of the siege, Date Masamune and Rusu Masakage crossed the mountain passes to encamp 2.5 km east of Yamagata on 24 October, and Rusu Masakage led an attempt to relieve the siege, prompting Kanetsugu to attempt to storm Hasedō;

3300-455: The official denouncement of Ieyasu, 15,000 Ishida troops under Onoki Shigekatsu had begun a siege of the fortress . However, Fujitaka's influence and prestige as a scholar-poet was so great that the sympathetic Ishida troops gave a weak offense, such as "forgetting" to load cannons before firing on the keep. The siege only ended 19 October following an order by the emperor to surrender to preserve his life and his precious library, following which

3366-621: The political landscape of Japan, resulting in the ascendancy of the Tokugawa Shogunate over the Toyotomi clan and the shifting of political power between the various daimyō who participated in it. With the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1598, his 5 year-old son Toyotomi Hideyori succeeded him formally as the taikō or imperial regent, and rule of Japan fell under a Council of Five Elders appointed by Hideyoshi as regents for Hideyori until he came of age. Tokugawa Ieyasu ,

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3432-455: The promised to let Mitsunari retire and to review the assessment of the Battle of Ulsan Castle in Korea which became the major source of this incident, and had his second son, Yūki Hideyasu , to escort Mitsunari to Sawayama Castle. However, modern historians such as Daimon, Junji Mitsunari, and Goki Mizuno has stated from the primary and secondary sources text about the accident this was more of

3498-409: The proposal, insulting Yoshihiro. Mitsunari instead ordered a general withdrawal in the evening to the valley of Sekigahara after learning of Kobayakawa Hideaki's occupation of Mount Matsuo, emptying Ōgaki Castle of most of its garrison. On 21 October, the Western Army arrayed itself in the valley with Mitsunari's headquarters at the foot of Mount Sasao facing the Eastern Army, while Mōri Hidemoto led

3564-446: The rear guard and saw some desultory fighting with Chosokabe Morichika 's contingent as the battle wound down. Following the Tokugawa victory, Terumasa was given a 520,000- koku fief and the province of Harima. He also rewarded by his father-in-law, Ieyasu, with Himeji Castle . which he expanded and completed in 1609. In 1603 Bizen was added to Terumasa's territory, and this he assigned to his eldest son, Toshitaka (1584–1616). By

3630-486: The reason of Mitsunari failure in his war against Ieyasu was due to his unpopularity among the major political figures of that time. When the Sekigahara Campaign began in the fall of 1600, Terumasa immediately sided with his father-in-law, Tokugawa. He also manages to convince Nakagawa Hidenari to side with Ieyasu during this conflicts. In August 21, the Eastern Army led by Terumasa Ikeda, began crossing

3696-527: The river from Kawada. Terumasa army engaged in a battle at Yoneno against Oda Hidenobu . After the Hidenobu army routed, the Eastern army led by Naomasa and Fukushima crossed the river and directly attacked Takegahana Castle at 9:00 AM on the August 22nd. Shigekatsu himself setting the castle on fire and committed suicide as a final act of defiance. At the Battle of Sekigahara , Ikeda commanded 4,560 troops in

3762-602: The second day of the siege. Ishida Mitsunari and Ankokuji Ekei were captured fleeing north from Sekigahara, and were subsequently executed in Kyoto on 9 November. On 25 August, Ōtani Yoshitsugu had made contact with the Sanada clan at Ueda Castle and recruited Sanada Masayuki and his son Yukimura ; the eldest son, Sanada Nobuyuki , had already been sent by Masayuki to join the Tokugawa, with whom he already had marriage ties through his wife Komatsuhime in an attempt to preserve

3828-620: The spearhead in the right wing, and became the chief vassal of Oda family in Hashiba Hideyoshi 's force at the Battle of Yamazaki after the Incident at Honnō-ji , helping defeat Akechi Mitsuhide . He was also in the conference at Kiyosu Castle to decide on Nobunaga's successor. In 1583, he assisted Hideyoshi at Battle of Shizugatake against Shibata Katsuie and was given 130,000 koku in Mino Province , and became

3894-534: The suggestion that he defect to the Eastern Army in order to attack the Shimazu clan , their long-time rivals; however, Ieyasu instituted a plan of appeasement for the Shimazu to prevent unrest following their defeat at Sekigahara, and so forbade any further action against them. Paul Davis used the following sources to compile the chapter "Sekigahara, 21 October 1600" in 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to

3960-527: The time of Terumasa's death in 1613, the Ikeda had grown to rule over Harima , Bizen, Inaba , and Awaji , with a combined income of around 1,000,000- koku . Following the death of Toshitaka, the Tokugawa Bakufu took steps to reduce the alarming power of the Ikeda and eventually reduced the family to Tottori (Inaba) and Okayama (Bizen). Ōkanehira or Great Kanehira, refers to the extraordinary size of

4026-412: Was a retainer of the famous warlords Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi . In his early years, he served Nobunaga since his mother was Nobunaga's foster mother . His childhood name is unknown and his common name was Katsuzaburō (勝三郎). His father was Ikeda Tsunetoshi, who served Oda Nobuhide . His mother, Yōtokuin (養徳院), was Oda Nobunaga 's wet nurse, and later became Nobuhide's concubine, bearing him

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4092-479: Was guilty of treason against his brother Oda Nobunaga . In 1558, he took over Suemori Castle . In 1560, he led one of Nobunaga's main forces against Imagawa Yoshimoto at the Battle of Okehazama . In 1567, he participated in the Siege of Inabayama Castle against the Saitō clan in the first division of Oda Nobunaga's forces, along with Shibata Katsuie . In 1570, he was active in the Battle of Anegawa against

4158-589: Was intercepted, and though a second messenger succeeded in prompting Terumoto to depart with his 30,000 troops, they were delayed from reaching the major confrontations. Ieyasu moved quickly towards the capital region, reaching Shimada in Suruga Province on 12 October and Nakaizumi in Totomi Province the following day. At the same time, Mōri Hidemoto and Kikkawa Hiroie entered Mino Province and fortified Mount Nangu. During this march, Ieyasu received

4224-406: Was launched on 14 October with the aims of taking Yamagata Castle, the 10,000-strong headquarters of Mogami Yoshiaki . Kanetsugu advanced from Yonezawa on 14 October with 20,000 troops of the first division westward towards Yamagata Castle; en route, the Uesugi army besieged Hataya Castle on 18 October, where the garrison of 300 led by Eguchi Gohei fell defending it to the last man. Simultaneously,

4290-400: Was the siege of Fushimi Castle commencing 27 August. Torii Mototada was resolved to defend the garrison to the last, and despite setbacks the defense held until 6 September when Mototada committed seppuku with his remaining forces, majorly setting back Mitsunari's attempts to support his castles along the Nakasendō road. Nine days later, Mitsunari entered Ōgaki Castle uncontested. Though

4356-718: Was then persuaded by his vassals to retreat. Eventually, the Tsuneoki and Mori forces were crushed, and the battle ended in victory for the Tokugawa forces. In 1590, following the transfer of Tokugawa Ieyasu to the Kanto , Terumasa was established at Yoshida in Mikawa, a 152,000- koku fief. In 1594 Terumasa married one of Tokugawa's daughters, and after Hideyoshi died in 1598, the Ikeda drifted into Ieyasu's camp. In 1592, Terumasa participated in Japanese invasions of Korea . He stays in

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