Battle of Komaki

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Battle of Komaki
Part of the Sengoku period
Date 1584 Location Komaki, Owari Province, Japan Result Tokugawa victory
Combatants
forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi	forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Commanders
Mori Nagayoshi	Sakai Tadatsugu
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties
300 killed	Unknown

Campaigns of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Kōzuki – Itami – Miki – Tottori – Takamatsu – Yamazaki – Uchide-hama – Shizugatake – Komaki – Nagakute – Kaganoi – Takehana – Kanie – Toyama – Ōta Castle – Shikoku & Ichinomiya – Negoroji – Takajō – Ganjaku – Akizuki – Sendaigawa – Kagoshima – Hachigata – Odawara – Shimoda – Korea

Campaigns of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Kakegawa - Anegawa - Futamata - Mikata ga Hara - Yoshida - Nagashino - Temmokuzan - Komaki - Nagakute - Sekigahara

The battle of Komaki, along with the battle of Nagakute which followed, was the climax of the conflict between the forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, two warlords who sought to conquer Japan at the end of the Sengoku period.

Following the fall of Inuyama castle, Mori Nagayoshi, an ally of Hideyoshi, marched towards Kiyosu. Tokugawa sent an army under Sakai Tadatsugu, and the two met at Komaki.

Despite fierce arquebus fire from Mori's men, Sakai succeeded at flanking and attacking Mori in the rear. Mori fled, having suffered 300 casualties.

[edit] Reference

• Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.