What We Learned From… Nagashino, 1575

On June 28, 1575, in central Honshu, Japan, warlord Nobunaga Oda led a force of 38,000 Oda and Tokugawa clan troops to break Katsuyori Takeda’s siege of Nagashino Castle, defended by Tokugawa warrior Sadamasa Okudaira. With his tactics Oda changed the face of Japanese warfare. Head of the Takeda clan, known for its mounted samurai …

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