Takeda Katsuyori

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Statue of Takeda Katsuyori in Yamato- chō, Kōshū , Japan

Takeda Katsuyori ( Japanese 武田 勝 頼 ; * 1546 ; † April 3, 1582 ) was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period who took over the leadership of the Takeda clan after the death of his famous father and legendary general Takeda Shingen . However, he was not as tactically skilled as his father and led the Takeda to their worst defeat, which brought their important role in Japanese history to an abrupt end.

family

Historical role

He is one of the most tragic figures in Japanese history because, despite the outstanding importance of his clan in his youth, and despite all his efforts, he had to see the fall.

Katsuyori, born as Suwa Shirō ( 諏 訪 四郎 ), later Suwa Katsuyori, defeated his mother's Suwa clan and made Takatō Castle his seat of power. After his older brother Takeda Yoshinobu died, Katsuyori's son Nobukatsu became the leader of the Takeda clan, giving Katsuyori actual control. After the death of his father Shingen he took care of the family and fought with Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Takatenjin in 1574 and in the Nagashino in 1575. He took the Takatenjin Castle , which even his father had not been able to do before; which secured him the support of the Takeda clan, but he suffered a terrible defeat in Nagashino, due to one of the earliest recorded firing bursts by enemy infantry. Oda Nobunaga had around 3000 arquebuses and ordered his infantry to hide behind palisades and fire in rows one after the other. This enabled him to defeat the superior Takeda cavalry and kill a third of all 24 Takeda generals , an irretrievable loss for them. This was the decisive defeat for the rest of the three-pact of the East between the later Hōjō (clan) , and the Imagawa (clan) and the Takeda (clan) ( Imagawa Ujizane had already left). As a result, the three unions were able to annex or destroy the remaining sovereign principalities and usher in the Edo period .

Today's grave of Takeda Katsuyori, his son Nobukatsu and his Hojo wife in the Keitoku-in temple complex

literature

  • Shibatsuji Shunroku and Hirayama Masaru: 武田 勝 頼 の す べ て ( Takeda Katsuyori no Subete ). Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha, 2007.
  • Shibatsuji Shunroku: Takeda Katsuyori . Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha, 2003.
  • Shibatsuji Shunroku:　甲 斐 武田 一族 ( The Kai Takeda Clan ), 2005, ISBN 4-40403-262-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ 武田 勝 頼 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved February 5, 2013 (Japanese).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Takeda is the family name, Katsuyori the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Takeda, Katsuyori
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 武田 勝 頼 (Japanese); Suwa Shirō (maiden name); 諏 訪 四郎 (maiden name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
DATE OF BIRTH 1546
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1582