Oga Yashiro

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Oga Yashiro is a traitor who offered to let Takeda Katsuyori into the Tokugawa-controlled castle at Okazaki. His plot was discovered and he died by the bamboo saw after 7 days. [1]

Takeda Katsuyori was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period,who was famed as the head of the Takeda clan and the successor to the legendary warlord Takeda Shingen. He was the son of Shingen by the daughter of Suwa Yorishige. Katsuyori's children included Takeda Nobukatsu and Katsuchika.

Tokugawa clan noble family

The Tokugawa clan was a powerful daimyō family of Japan. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a branch of the Minamoto clan by the Nitta clan. The early history of this clan remains a mystery. Members of the clan ruled Japan as shōguns from 1603 to 1867.

Okazaki, Aichi Core city in Chūbu, Japan

Okazaki is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

References

  1. Turnbull, Stephen (1987). Battles of the Samurai. London: Arms and Armour Press. p. 81. ISBN   9780853688266.

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