Imagawa Yoshimoto

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Imagawa Yoshimoto
今川 義元
Head of Imagawa clan
In office 1536–1560
Preceded by	Imagawa Ujiteru
Succeeded by	Imagawa Ujizane
Personal details
Born	Yosakimaru 1519 Sunpu, Suruga Province, Japan
Died	June 12, 1560(1560-06-12) (aged 40–41) Dengakuhazama, Owari Province, Japan
Spouse	Jōkei-in
Children	5, including Imagawa Ujizane
Parents	Imagawa Ujichika (father) Jukei-ni (mother)
Relatives	Imagawa Ujiteru (brother) Hōjō Ujiyasu (brother-in-law) Takeda Shingen (brother-in-law) Lady Hayakawa (niece and daughter-in-law)
Military service
Allegiance	Imagawa clan
Rank	Daimyo
Unit	Imagawa clan
Commands	Sunpu Castle
Battles/wars	Hanagura Disturbance (1536) Battle of Azukizaka (1542) Battle of Azukizaka (1548) Battle of Muraki Castle (1554) Battle of Okehazama (1560) †
Japanese name
Kanji	今川 義元
Hiragana	いまがわ よしもと
Transcriptions Romanization Imagawa Yoshimoto

Imagawa Yoshimoto (今川 義元, 1519 – June 12, 1560) was a Japanese daimyō (feudal lord) of the Sengoku period. Based in Suruga Province, he was known as The number one Daimyō in the Tōkaidō (海道一の弓取り, Kaidō-ichi no Yumitori);^[1] he was one of the three daimyō that dominated the Tōkaidō region. He died in 1560 while marching to Kyoto to become Shogun. He was killed in the village of Dengakuhazama in Okehazama by Oda Nobunaga.^[2]