1574: The Annihilation of the Nagashima Ikkō-ikki - Sengoku Shogun Map
Oda Nobunaga surrounded Nagashima in Ise with roughly 80,000 troops, and in September burned the fortified holdouts, annihilating some 20,000 remaining Ikkō-ikki fighters. This ended nearly five years of resistance that had repeatedly threatened Nobunaga, closing off one major front of the anti-Nobunaga coalition. Meanwhile in the east, Takeda Katsuyori captured the strategic Takatenjin Castle in Tōtōmi, keeping up pressure on the Oda-Tokugawa alliance.
Major events
- 1574-09: Nagashima Ikkō-ikki Is Suppressed — In his third campaign against Nagashima, Oda Nobunaga surrounded the uprising by land and sea and suppressed the Ikkō-ikki centered on Ganshōji.