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32-589: It centered on attempts to take down the Ikki's central base, the cathedral fortress of Ishiyama Hongan-ji , in what is today the city of Osaka . While Nobunaga and his allies led attacks on Ikki communities and fortifications in the nearby provinces, weakening the Hongan-ji's support structure, elements of his army remained camped outside the Hongan-ji, blocking supplies to the fortress and serving as scouts. The Ikkō-ikki leagues of warrior monks and commoners were among

64-527: A coup d'état against Nobunaga. He was defeated at the Battle of Inō , and in the aftermath Nobunaga had his brother executed, but impressed with the retainer's loyalty and bravery, spared the life of Katsuie. Katsuie pledged his services to Nobunaga, earning his praises. In 1556, According to the records from Tosho Gunkan , Sakai Tadatsugu defends Fukutani castle which besieged by 2,000 cavalry troops of Oda clan led by Shibata Katsuie. Tadatsugu manage to repel

96-441: A "long slope" (大坂, Ōzaka) are the first to call the area by that name, which has changed only slightly over time to Osaka (大阪), and become Japan's second largest city. Although Rennyo sought isolation in retiring to this quiet place, he very quickly attracted a great number of devotees and followers. The tiny temple Rennyo built for his own personal devotions was expanded, and many homes and other buildings were erected to accommodate

128-474: A final stand, the destruction of the Ishiyama Hongan-ji was truly the killing blow which marked the destruction of the sect as a militant force. Three years later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi began the construction of Osaka Castle on the same site. Shibata Katsuie Shibata Katsuie ( 柴田 勝家 , 1522 – June 14, 1583) or Gonroku ( 権六 ) was a Japanese samurai and military commander during

160-541: A request for reinforcements to Nobunaga who was staying in Kyōto. Later in May 1576, Nobunaga himself personally came. Nobunaga took part in an attack on the fortress. He led a number of ashigaru (foot soldiers) army of only 3,000 men to attack as many as 15,000 enemy forces, along with Niwa Nagahide , Hashiba Hideyoshi , Takigawa Kazumasu , Hachiya Yoritaka and Inaba Yoshimichi . Nobunaga attacked Mitsuji fortress , pushing back

192-473: The Battle of Tedorigawa . In 1580, he led an army, which included his general Sakuma Morimasa in a fight against the Kaga Ikko-ikki at Kanazawa Gobo. In 1581, after controlling Noto , he began a campaign against Etchū Province along with Maeda Toshiie , Sassa Narimasa and Fuwa Mitsuharu . In 1582, he and Sassa Narimasa successfully laid siege to Uozu and Matsukura Castle . In

224-654: The Chūgoku region from the Mori clan , and Akechi Mitsuhide to pacify Tanba Province in 1577, and Nobunaga eventually blocked the Mōri's supply lines. In 1578, Nobunaga accused Araki Murashige of sympathies to the Mōri clan, and enlisted Kuki Yoshitaka to set up a blockade and disrupt the fortress' supply lines from the Mōri navy with massive new battleships. Later, in the Second Battle of Kizugawaguchi , Kuki Yoshitaka broke

256-451: The Mōri clan , who supplied the fortress when it was under siege. Both Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen , both of whom were rivals of Oda Nobunaga , simply by keeping Nobunaga and each other occupied, did the Ikki a great service. The Hongan-ji came under siege from the forces of Oda Nobunaga in 1570, but, due in part to its position on the coast, managed to hold out for 11 years, making this

288-537: The Oda clan ). Note the differences between Shibata ( 柴田 ) , Shiba ( 斯波 ) , and the Shibata clan of Echigo ( 新発田 ) . Katsuie was the retainer of Oda Nobuyuki . In 1554, Katsuie took part in the Battle of Kiyosu Castle against Oda Nobutomo , uncle of Nobunaga. In 1556, when control of the Oda clan was contested, Katsuie initially supported his lord, Nobuyuki, against his elder brother Oda Nobunaga . Katsuie launched

320-578: The Oda – Tokugawa coalition fought at the Battle of Anegawa against the Asakura and Azai clans , Katsuie was at Chōkō-ji castle, under siege by 4,000 soldiers of the Rokkaku clan . Katsuie eventually won via an all-out attack, forcing the Rokkaku to retreat. This action, along with a series of brilliant victories, gained him renown as the " Oni Shibata", or "Demon Shibata". In 1571, he fought in

352-569: The Sengoku period . He served Oda Nobunaga as one of his trusted generals, was severely wounded in the 1571 first siege of Nagashima , but then fought in the 1575 Battle of Nagashino and 1577 Battle of Tedorigawa . Katsuie was born in the village of Kamiyashiro (present-day Meitō-ku, Nagoya ), a branch of the Shiba clan (who descended from the Ashikaga clan , and were the former suzerains of

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384-602: The Sieges of Nagashima fortress and other campaigns. On September 12, the Ikkō-ikki launched a midnight stealth attack against Nobunaga's forces at Kawaguchi and Takadono. The Ikko were reinforced by warrior monks from Negoro-ji in Kii Province and 3,000 musketeers , pushing Oda's army back. Nobunaga's armies remained camped out, assigned to monitor the Ikki's fortress, and take it if they could. In 1574, after destroying

416-450: The genpuku ritual. He then allied with Oda Nobutaka and Takigawa Kazumasu against Toyotomi Hideyoshi who was allied with Oda Nobukatsu . Tension quickly escalated between Hideyoshi and Katsuie, and the following year they clashed at the Battle of Shizugatake . In 1583, Katsuie sent his nephew Sakuma Morimasa to besiege Takayama Ukon and Nakagawa Kiyohide at Shizugatake . Morimasa ignored Shibata's orders to withdraw to Ōiwa and

448-677: The 20th century. Ishiyama Hongan-ji The Ishiyama Hongan-ji ( 石山本願寺 ) was the primary fortress of the Ikkō-ikki , leagues of warrior priests and commoners who opposed samurai rule during the Sengoku period . It was established in 1496, at the mouth of the Yodo River , on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea . At the time, this was just outside the remains of the ancient capital of Naniwa , in Settsu Province . In fact, recent archaeological research has determined that

480-521: The Ikki garrison to their inner gates and Nobunaga suffered a bullet wound to his leg. However, Harada Naomasa lost his life during the battle. Later in 1577, Sakuma Nobumori was chosen as Harada's replacement as commander of the Siege of Ishiyama Hongan-ji and given troops from seven provinces placing him in command of the largest Oda-clan army among the Oda retainers. By then, 51 outposts had been built around

512-528: The Mōri supply lines for good. Nobunaga also gave orders to Hideyoshi to besiege Mōri's Miki castle at Harima province . However in 1579, the Mori clan lost their strategic castle at Miki and Itami Castle . By then in 1580, the siege was beginning to swing in Nobunaga's favor. The majority of the Ikki's allies were already inside the fortress with them, so they had no one to call on for aid. The Ikki under

544-614: The Nagashima complex and reducing the threat from the Ikki's supporters, Oda attempted to starve out the fortress. This was no easy task, however, because the Ishiyama fortress sat on the coast, which was guarded by the fleet of the Mōri clan , masters of naval combat and Oda's enemies. By early 1575, however, the fortress was already in urgent need of supplies, and the Abbot Kōsa was ready to begin peaceful overtures with Nobunaga to end

576-577: The central fortress, many equipped with arquebus squads. But Nobumori made no progress against the Hongan-ji forces and in the meantime Kuki Yoshitaka failed to blockade Mōri supply lines in the first Battle of Kizugawaguchi . Oda Nobunaga was forced to revise his tactics and began to attack the outposts, and the supporters of the Ikki. Nobunaga ordered Shibata Katsuie to conquer the Hokuriku region , sent Takigawa Kazumasu to suppress ikko-ikki rebels at Kii province , Hashiba Hideyoshi to conquer

608-611: The first Siege of Nagashima and was severely wounded. In 1573, when Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki , who was protected by the Mori clan , built an anti-Nobunaga network, Katsuie fought against Yoshiaki's forces in various places including Omi Province and Settsu Province as a powerful military commander of the Oda army. Later, He took part in the Siege of Ichijodani Castle and also in the Second Siege of Nagashima right after that, but he pulled back again. In 1574, he took part in

640-502: The forces of Katsuie as he led a sallying forces outside the castle and routing them. In 1560, he was commander of Nobunaga's main forces against Imagawa Yoshimoto at the Battle of Okehazama . In 1567, he led the first division of Oda Nobunaga's forces, in the siege of Inabayama against Saito clan . In late 1568, Katsuie, along with Hosokawa Fujitaka , Hachiya Yoritaka , Mori Yoshinari and Sakai Masahisa attacked Iwanari Tomomichi at Shōryūji Castle . In 1570, while

672-675: The last to stand in the way of Oda Nobunaga 's bid to conquer all of Japan. Oda and Tokugawa had fought the Ikki before, crushing their armies of Mikawa Province and other areas, and by 1570, their twin fortresses of Ishiyama Hongan-ji and Nagashima were their last bastions of strength. He besieged both fortresses simultaneously, attacking Ishiyama in August 1570 and Nagashima in 1571. In August 1570, Oda Nobunaga left Gifu Castle in Gifu with 30,000 troops, and ordered his generals to build fortresses around Ishiyama, while Nobunaga himself focused on

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704-459: The leadership of Shimozuma Nakayuki continued to fight, eventually the defenders almost ran out of ammunition and food. Abbot Kōsa held a conference with his comrades, after receiving a letter of advice from the imperial court via imperial envoys in April 1580. Kōsa and his son surrendered a few weeks later. The fighting finally ended in August 1580. With respect to Imperial order, Nobunaga spared

736-463: The lives of many of the defenders, including Shimozuma Nakayuki , but burned the fortress to the ground. In the same year, following the fall of the Honganji, Nobunaga accused Sakuma Nobumori and dismissed Ando Morinari from Nobunaga's service. Three years later in 1583, Toyotomi Hideyoshi would begin construction on the same site, building Osaka Castle , a replica of which was constructed in

768-461: The longest siege in Japanese history. In August 1580, the Abbot Kōsa (Kennyo) was persuaded to surrender, ending the 11-year-long siege . At the time of the surrender, the entire temple complex was set aflame. According to some sources, this was done from within, to deny Nobunaga any true material gains from having defeated the Ikki. Though some members of the group fled to Kaga Province to make

800-496: The meantime, Oda Nobunaga and his eldest son and heir, Nobutada , were killed in the Honnō-ji incident by the forces of his former retainer Akechi Mitsuhide . Later in 1582, after the death of Nobunaga, in a meeting at Kiyosu Castle to determine Nobunaga's successor, Katsuie initially supported the choice of Samboshi , Nobunaga's grandson. but he later supported Oda Nobutaka , Nobunaga's third son, for whom Katsuie had performed

832-671: The new residents. By the time of Rennyo's death, three years later, the general shape and size of the Ishiyama Hongan-ji was already in place. After the 1532 destruction of Yamashina Mido in Kyoto , the Ishiyama Hongan-ji acted as the primary temple for the Ikkō sect, from which the Ikkō-ikki had sprouted. Contributions from devotees were collected through a system of brokers, primarily those based in Sakai in nearby Izumi Province . The temple-fortress

864-534: The siege. But the ousted shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiaki sent a letter to Mōri Terumoto asking for his aid in supplying the cathedral fortress. Yoshiaki eventually raised some troops himself to aid the besieged. In April 1576, Oda's army attacked the Hongan-ji fortress, led by Harada Naomasa , Akechi Mitsuhide , Hosokawa Fujitaka , Tsutsui Junkei , Nakagawa Kiyohide , Takayama Ukon , Araki Murashige , and Sakuma Nobuhide , but Oda forces were quickly repelled by 15,000 Ikkō-ikki defenders. Mitsuhide and Nobuhide made

896-579: The summer night! O bird of the mountain, Carry my name beyond the clouds." Shibata Katsuie is a playable character in Koei Tecmo 's Samurai Warriors 2: Empires and all subsequent Samurai Warriors , the Warriors Orochi games, and Sengoku Basara 4 . He appears in Nioh 2 and Fate/Grand Order as a side character. http://www.samurai-archives.com/katsuie.html Archived 2007-07-16 at

928-438: The temple was established atop the ruins of the old imperial palace. The city (now called Osaka ) has since grown around the site, incorporating the Ishiyama (stone mountain). Rennyo, the great revivalist abbott of Jōdo Shinshū ( Ikkō-shū ), retired to the area in 1496, initiating the series of events that would end in the formation of Japan's second-largest city. Contemporary documents describing his retirement site as being on

960-559: The third Siege of Nagashima . He commanded the right wing among the three groups along with Sakuma Nobumori . In 1575, he fought in the Battle of Nagashino against Takeda Katsuyori . He and Hashiba Hideyoshi protected the left flank. In 1576, after gaining control of Echizen , he took command of Kitanosho Castle (Hokujō) and was ordered to conquer the Hokuriku region . In 1577, Nobunaga sent an army led by Shibata Katsuie and some of his most experienced generals to reinforce Shigetsura from Noto province against Uesugi Kenshin at

992-475: Was captured and beheaded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi 's returning forces. Katsuie was defeated and retreated back into Echizen, all the way to Kitanosho Castle , which was taken in 3 days. During the siege, Katsuie implored his wife, Oichi , to take their daughters and leave, but she decided to stay and die with him, while letting their daughters escape. After setting fire to his castle, Katsuie committed seppuku . His death poem was: "Fleeting dream paths, In

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1024-473: Was considered impenetrable, due largely to its location and orientation. In addition, roughly a hundred priests were on patrol at any given time, and upwards of ten thousand could be summoned to battle simply by ringing a bell. The priests of the fortress came not only from Osaka and the surrounding areas, but also from the Ikko sect's home provinces of Kaga and Echizen . The priests also had many allies, including

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