While they were resting in one of Oda’s camps, the Okehazama, they had a surprise of their lives. Tokugawa Ieyasu (with a former name of Matsudaira Motoyasu until the year 1566) was among the 20,000 to 30,000 troops of Yoshimoto then. In the year 1560, a Daimyo, Imagawa Yoshimoto decided to make his way to the east of Kyoto to overcome the governing Oda clan there. Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu Alliance These are Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu establishing a new government, Tokugawa Shogunate.
This ended with the peace and order in the year 1598. It started from the Onin War in the years 1467-77 that broke the Ashikaga Shogunate. This was a century-long era of political turmoil and fight for power. This is the counterpart of the Warring States period in China. It all started from Nobunaga’s threat of gaining control over Odani and Yokoyama castles under Azai and Asakura clans. It became more interesting due to the aid of their equally powerful allies, Tokugawa Ieyasuand Asakura Yoshikage.
The battle took place between two powerful Daimyo, Oda Nobunaga and Azai Nagamasa. It consisted of 48,000 troops who fought against one another in the River of Ane. It occurred in the year 1570 in the latter part of the Sengoku period. The Battle of Anegawa is one of the biggest bloodbaths of the Samurai in the history of Japan.
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