Battle of Sekigahara
| Battle of Sekigahara | |||||||||
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| Part of the Sekigahara Campaign during the Sengoku period | |||||||||
Edo-period screen depicting the battle | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Western Army: Forces loyal to Ishida Mitsunari | Eastern Army: Forces loyal to Tokugawa Ieyasu | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Ishida Mitsunari Ukita Hideie Ōtani Yoshitsugu † Shima Sakon † Chōsokabe Morichika Gamō Yorisato † Shimazu Yoshihiro Shimazu Toyohisa † Akashi Takenori Konishi Yukinaga Toda Katsushige † Ankokuji Ekei Mōri Hidemoto Natsuka Masaie † Hiratsuka Tamehiro Defected: Kobayakawa Hideaki Kikkawa Hiroie Wakisaka Yasuharu Kutsuki Mototsuna Akaza Naoyasu Ogawa Suketada |
Tokugawa Ieyasu: Overall commander Ii Naomasa: Supreme field commander Fukushima Masanori Tōdō Takatora Hosokawa Tadaoki Ikeda Terumasa Oda Urakusai Matsudaira Tadayoshi Kuroda Nagamasa Takenaka Shigekado Honda Tadakatsu Katō Yoshiaki Terazawa Hirotaka Ikoma Kazumasa Tsutsui Sadatsugu Horio Tadauji Kanamori Nagachika Asano Yoshinaga Yamauchi Kazutoyo Kyōgoku Takatomo Furuta Oribe | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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120,000 initially, 81,890 by the time of battle |
75,000 initially, 88,888 by the time of battle | ||||||||
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Location within Gifu Prefecture Battle of Sekigahara (Japan) | |||||||||
The Battle of Sekigahara (Shinjitai: 関ヶ原の戦い; Kyūjitai: 關ヶ原の戰い, Hepburn romanization: Sekigahara no Tatakai) was an important battle in Japan which occurred on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month) in what is now Gifu Prefecture, Japan, at the end of the Sengoku period.
This battle was fought by the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu against a coalition loyal to the Toyotomi clan, led by Ishida Mitsunari on behalf of the young child Toyotomi Hideyori, from which several commanders defected before or during the battle, leading to a Tokugawa victory. The Battle of Sekigahara is often regarded as the most important battle in Japanese history.
Mitsunari's defeat in the Battle of Sekigahara is generally considered to be the beginning point of the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan for another two and a half centuries until 1868.