Battle of Mikatagahara

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Battle of Mikatagahara
Part of the Sengoku period
Battle of Mikatagahara
Date January 25, 1573 Location Mikatagahara, Tōtōmi Province, Japan Result Takeda clan victory Tokugawa Ieyasu retreat Takeda Shingen withdrawal
Belligerents
Takeda clan	Tokugawa clan Oda clan
Commanders and leaders
Takeda Shingen Takeda Katsuyori Baba Nobuharu Yamagata Masakage Naitō Masatoyo Saegusa Moritomo Obata Masamori Oyamada Nobushige	Tokugawa Ieyasu Sakai Tadatsugu Ishikawa Kazumasa Ōkubo Tadayo Amano Yasukage Honda Tadakatsu Sakakibara Yasumasa Sakuma Nobumori Takigawa Kazumasu
Strength
35,000 Takeda	11,000 total (8,000 Tokugawa, 3,000 Oda reinforcements)
Casualties and losses
500 to 3,000	Almost completely annihilated

The Battle of Mikatagahara (三方ヶ原の戦い, Mikatagahara no tatakai) took place during the Sengoku period of Japan between Takeda Shingen and Tokugawa Ieyasu in Mikatagahara, Tōtōmi Province on 25 January 1573.^[1] Shingen attacked Ieyasu at the plain of Mikatagahara north of Hamamatsu during his campaign against Oda Nobunaga while seeking a route from Kōfu to Kyoto. The Tokugawa-Oda force was almost totally annihilated by the Takeda after being encircled and many of Ieyasu's retainers were killed in the battle. Ieyasu and his surviving men were forced to retreat before launching a minor counterattack to delay Shingen's march towards Kyoto.