With Nagashima's destruction in 1574, the only threat to Nobunaga was the Takeda clan, now led by Takeda Katsuyori.

Shingen was succeeded by his less capable son Takeda Katsuyori.

The Oda-Tokugawa force of 38, 000 won a great victory on June 28, 1575, at the Battle of Nagashino, though Takeda Katsuyori survived the battle and retreated back to Kai province.

In 1579, Ieyasu's wife, and his eldest son, Matsudaira Nobuyasu, were accused by Nobunaga of conspiring with Takeda Katsuyori to assassinate Nobunaga, whose daughter Tokuhime ( 1559 – 1636 ) was married to Nobuyasu.

* April 3 – Takeda Katsuyori, Daimyo of Takeda Clan ( b. 1546 )

** Takeda Katsuyori, Japanese nobleman ( d. 1582 )

* June 28 – Battle of Nagashino: Oda Nobunaga defeats Takeda Katsuyori in Japan's first ' modern ' battle.

Shibata Katsuie was given the task of conquering the Uesugi clan in Etchū, Takigawa Kazumasu confronted the Shinano Province that a son of Shingen Takeda Katsuyori governs, and Hashiba Hideyoshi was given the formidable task of facing the Mōri clan in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū.

" When their son Takeda Katsuyori proved to be a disastrous leader and led the clan to their devastating defeat at the battle of Nagashino, Turnbull writes, " wise old heads nodded, remembering the unhappy circumstances of his birth and his magical mother ".

Nobutomo also served under Shingen's son, Takeda Katsuyori.

After the death of Takeda Shingen in the spring of 1573, Nobutomo continued to support his son, Takeda Katsuyori, in the prosecution of his campaigns.

In 1575, Katsuyori lost the Battle of Nagashino, a disaster for the Takeda clan which left Nobutomo at Iwamura Castle without support.

Shingen then withdrew his forward troops, offering them an opportunity to rest, and brought forward a new set of horsemen initiated a new charge, led by Takeda Katsuyori and Obata Masamori.

Forces under Takeda Katsuyori ( 武田勝頼 ) had besieged the castle since the 17 June ; Okudaira Sadamasa ( 奥平貞昌 ), a Tokugawa vassal, commanded the defending force.

Both Tokugawa Ieyasu ( 徳川家康 ) and Oda Nobunaga ( 織田信長 ) sent troops to break the siege and their combined forces defeated Takeda Katsuyori ( 武田勝頼 ).

According to the Shinchō kōki Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu brought a total force of 38, 000 men to relieve the siege on the castle by Takeda Katsuyori.

Oda sent out small forces against Takeda to feign frontal attacks, which caused Katsuyori to move against Oda's forces.

The short distance, the great power of the Takeda cavalry charge, and the heavy rain, which Katsuyori assumed would render the matchlock guns useless, encouraged Takeda to order the charge.

It is noteworthy as the site of the crucial Battle of Nagashino between the combined forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga against Takeda Katsuyori in 1575.

In the course of this power shift, well established clans such as the Takeda and the Imagawa, who had ruled under the authority of both the Kamakura and Muromachi bakufu, were able to expand their spheres of influence.

By trying to negotiate a peace between such well known daimyo as Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin, Shimazu Takahisa, Ōtomo Yoshishige, Mōri Motonari, and Amago Haruhisa, the shogun's authority was again recognized by various daimyo.

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Many Japanese gloved karate fighters have in recent years become well known as pro-kickboxers, and many of the most successful Japanese kickboxers in K-1, such as Kozo Takeda, Yoshihiro Sato, Yasuhiro Kido, Hinata, Yuya Yamamoto, originated in gloved karate.

While the Kakuyoku formation held surprisingly well, the Takeda commanders eventually fell, one by one.

He captured Takatenjin, which even his father could not ; this gained him the support of the Takeda clan, but he suffered a terrible loss at Nagashino, succumbing to one of the earliest recorded uses of volley fire ( Oda Nobunaga's 3000 guns ), in which he lost a large part of his forces as well as a number of his generals.

-1948 ) and Fujita Seiko ( 藤田西湖 1899-1966 ) shurikenjutsu practitioners who preserved the art by transmitting it and writing books on the subject, as well as a handful of surviving classical martial arts schools such as Yagyu Shingan Ryu, Yagyu Shinkage Ryu, Katori Shinto Ryu, Kukishin Ryu and Takeda Ryu Nakamura Ha, Togakure Ryu the art of shurikenjutsu would indeed have been lost to history.

By 1662 the avenue boasted six Kabuki theatres and five Bunraku theatres, as well as the unique Takeda Karakuri mechanical puppet theatre.

Kōsa ( and the Mōri ) requested aid from both Takeda Katsuyori ( son of Shingen ) and Uesugi Kenshin, as well as the Ikkō armies of other provinces, to attack Nobunaga, relieving the siege.

In that year, he was dispatched to Gifu Castle where he represented his lord, Takeda Shingen, at the wedding ceremony of Oda Nobutada, eldest son of Nobunaga, and Matsuhime, daughter of Shingen.

As Nobukata was the eldest of the Takeda retainers and having educated Shingen, few could criticize his actions.

Yoshikiyo followed in fighting against both Takeda Nobutora and his son Takeda Shingen.

He was the third son of Sanada Yukitaka, a vassal daimyo to the Takeda family in Shinano province.

After his elder brother Takeda Yoshinobu died, Katsuyori's son Nobukatsu became heir to the Takeda clan, making Katsuyori the true ruler of the Takeda clan.

They had been senior retainers of the Takeda family, and in the early 17th century the head of the family, Hoshina Masamitsu, adopted the illegitimate son of the second Tokugawa shogun Hidetada.

** Takeda Katsuyori-Shingen's son, Katsuyori commanded his father's armies after his death, and saw the fall of the Takeda family

This marked the beginning of the split from Daito-ryu, as by this time Takeda was very old and his son Tokimune was still very young.

Skiing and rotenburo can be enjoyed here, also the Mini Oze Koen park which contains the Takeda Hisayoshi Memorial Hall commemorating the noted botanist and alpinist of the same name, who was the second son of Sir Ernest Satow.

When Tokugawa and Oda Nobunaga launch an attack against the territory of the Takeda clan, Shingen's son, Katsuyori, launches a counterattack against the advice of other generals.

Born Takeda Tarō ( 武田 太郎 ), he was the son of Takeda Shingen, by Shingen's wife,

Yoshinobu's nephew Nobukatsu ( son of his half-brother Katsuyori ) replaced him as lord of the Takeda clan who also was responsible for his death.

Katsuyori's children included Takeda Nobukatsu and Katsuchika.

** Takeda Nobukatsu ( d. 1582 )