EVENTS
Events
Major events other than battles, with how each unfolded and the sources behind it. Dates are given as far as the sources confirm them; where a date cannot be converted, the Japanese calendar of the source is kept.
Shogun Ashikaga Yoshihisa marched into Ōmi against Rokkaku Takayori, beginning the Chōkyō–Entoku conflict.
Pursued by Sue Harukata's forces, Ōuchi Yoshitaka committed suicide at Tainei-ji, transforming the Ōuchi political order.
Honganji leader Kennyo accepted an imperial-mediated peace and withdrew from Ishiyama Honganji, ending roughly ten years of war between the Honganji and Oda Nobunaga.
After pacifying Harima, Hashiba Hideyoshi received Himeji Castle from Kuroda Yoshitaka, rebuilt it, and made it the base for campaigns into Tajima, Inaba, and Bitchū.
Just after Oda Nobunaga was killed at Honnōji, Hashiba Hideyoshi — then besieging Takamatsu Castle in Bitchū — came to terms with the Mōri and turned his army east. On the 6th day of the 6th month of Tenshō 10 he marched up the Chūgoku highway and was back at Himeji Castle in Harima. "Chūgoku" here means the Chūgoku region of Japan, not China.
After Oda Nobunaga and his heir Nobutada died at Honnōji, four senior retainers — Shibata Katsuie, Hashiba Hideyoshi, Niwa Nagahide and Ikeda Tsuneoki — met at Kiyosu Castle in Owari to settle the Oda succession and the division of Nobunaga's lands. Nobunaga's infant grandson Sanbōshi took the headship; Nobukatsu received Owari and Nobutaka received Mino.
On Hideyoshi's orders 160,000 Japanese troops crossed to Busan, took Hanseong in twenty days and Pyongyang in two months. Yi Sun-sin's navy then cut the sea route, and righteous armies and Ming reinforcements pushed them back. In 1593 they withdrew from Hanseong to coastal forts in the south and opened talks.
With the peace talks broken, the Japanese crossed again, crushed the Korean navy at Chilcheollyang and took Namwon, securing Jeolla. Halted at Jiksan and beaten at Myeongnyang by the reinstated Yi Sun-sin, they were pinned to their coastal forts. Hideyoshi's death in August 1598 brought withdrawal, and the seven-year war ended with the sea battle of Noryang in November.