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Takeda Katsuyori

Son of Takeda Shingen and last head of the Takeda, crushed by the Oda–Tokugawa army at Nagashino in 1575; hunted down by Oda forces, he took his own life at Tenmokuzan in 1582

Fourth son of Takeda Shingen, he was first heir to his mother’s Suwa family, but after his elder brothers died or were set aside he came to lead the Takeda in 1573. Taking Takatenjin Castle in Tōtōmi in 1574, he held more territory than his father, but was crushingly defeated at Nagashino in 1575. Meddling in the Uesugi succession dispute cost him the Hōjō alliance, and in 1581 he built a new castle at Shinpu. When the Oda, Tokugawa and Hōjō invaded together in 1582 his vassals deserted, and he took his own life at Tenmokuzan with his son Nobukatsu, ending the Takeda house.

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    1575Battle of Nagashinocommander

    The allied army of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu crushed Takeda Katsuyori, who was besieging Nagashino Castle, with muskets and palisades at Shitaragahara. The Takeda lost many famous generals and went into decline.

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    Sengoku-era daimyo who ended the Muromachi shogunate in 1573 and won at Nagashino with massed musketeers, opening the way to unification before his death in the Honnōji Incident

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    Founder of the Edo shogunate, who won at Sekigahara in 1600, became shogun in 1603 and destroyed the Toyotomi house in 1615

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