Battle of Temmokuzan

Battle of Temmokuzan
Part of the Sengoku period
Edo period scroll depicting the last battle of Takeda Katsuyori
Date 1582 Location Temmoku Mountain, Kai Province, Japan Result Oda victory
Belligerents
Forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu	Forces of Takeda Katsuyori
Commanders and leaders
Oda Nobunaga Oda Nobutada Tokugawa Ieyasu Takigawa Kazumasu	Takeda Katsuyori† Oyamada Nobushige
Strength
20,000	9,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Entire army destroyed, Katsuyori commits suicide.

The 1582 Battle of Temmokuzan (天目山の戦い, Temmokuzan no Tatakai) in Japan, also known as the Battle of Toriibata, is regarded as the last stand of the Takeda family. This was the final attempt by Takeda Katsuyori to resist the combined forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga, who had been campaigning against him for some time. In his bid to hide from his pursuers, Katsuyori burned his castle at Shinpu Castle and fled into the mountains, to another Takeda stronghold, called Iwadono, and held by Oyamada Nobushige, an old Takeda retainer. Katsuyori was denied entry by Oyamada, and committed suicide while his army held off their pursuers.

References

• Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co.