Thank you very much Professor Murphy.It was useful information.Where can I find information about the Odawara castle.it's a very fascinating castle.I have a question.the castle Iwadono existed???!!!
murphymurphyjohn@... wrote:Takeda Katsuyori ascended to be daimyo of the powerful Takeda Clan on the
death in battle of his father Takeda Shingen. During his long feud with Uesugi
Kenshin, Shingen had developed his clan's cavalry, which benefited from
living adjacent to fine horse-breeding grounds, into perhaps the best Asiatic
cavalry force seen since the Mongols of Genghiz Khan. Also, Shingen realized
the military revolution that was wrought by the introduction of firearms by the
Portuguese in 1543 at Tanegashima. However, this was a lesson fatally
ignored by Takeda Katsuyori at Nagashino in 1575. There, he attacked the firearms
corps, the Teppu Shu, of Oda Nobunaga and his ally Tokugawa Ieyasu, who were
waiting behind prepared positions. The Takeda cavalry was smashed forever.
In 1582, Katsuyori committed seppuku rather than be captured by Nobunaga and
Ieyasu. Professor Murphy
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