Japanese Historical art print of
the Battle of Nagashino by Historical military artist Brian Palmer, only available
form Cranston Fine arts, battle of Nagashino
Battle of Nagashino by Brian Palmer.
When Portuguese traders took advantage of the constant violence
in Japan to sell the Japanese their first firearms, one of the quickest to
take advantage of this new technology was the powerful daimyô Oda
Nobunaga. In 1575 the impetuous Takeda Katsuyori lay siege to Nagashino
castle, a possession of an ally of Nobunaga's, Tokugawa Ieyasu. An army
was despatched to relieve the siege by Nobunaga and Ieyasu, two of the
most influential figures in Japanese history, and the two sides faced each
other across the plain of Shidarahara. The Takeda samurai were brave,
loyal and renowned for their cavalry charges, but Nobunaga, counting on
Katsuyori's impetuosity, had 3,000 musketeers waiting behind prepared
defences for their assault. The outcome of this clash of tactics and
technologies was to change the face of Japanese warfare forever.
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