Province data
1549 –1573
1570
Month 4Retreat at Kanegasaki
During the Echizen campaign, Azai Nagamasa suddenly defects. Oda Nobunaga faces encirclement by Asakura Yoshikage but retreats successfully thanks to rearguard actions.
1570 map — the year of Retreat at Kanegasaki1573
Month 8Fall of Asakura Yoshikage
As Oda forces invaded Echizen, Asakura Yoshikage abandoned Ichijōdani and fled. Combined with defections by his retainers, this led to his suicide and the destruction of the Sengoku daimyō house of Asakura.
1573 map — the year of Fall of Asakura Yoshikage8/9Battle of Tonegasa
Oda forces pursued the retreating Asakura army into Echizen and won a major victory. This decisively shattered the military foundation of the Asakura clan.
1573 map — the year of Battle of Tonegasa1574
1575 –1580
1575
8/15The Suppression of the Echizen Ikkō-ikki
Nobunaga launched a two-pronged assault on the ikki through Kinome Pass and Sugitsu, subduing Echizen in short order. The mop-up was thorough — 1,500 were killed in Fuchū town alone — and the ikki's rule of the province, which had held it since the fall of the Asakura, came to an end.
See this battle in detail →Month 9Shibata Katsuie Receives Kitanoshō in Echizen
After the suppression of the Echizen Ikkō uprising, Oda Nobunaga entrusted Shibata Katsuie with eight districts of Echizen and the northern campaign. Katsuie began developing Kitanoshō Castle and its town.
1575 map — the year of Shibata Katsuie Receives Kitanoshō in Echizen9/2Formation of the Fuchū Triumvirate
After subduing the Echizen Ikkō-ikki, Nobunaga granted two districts around Fuchū to Maeda Toshiie, Sassa Narimasa, and Fuwa Mitsuharu, who governed Echizen as adjutants and overseers under Shibata Katsuie.
1575 map — the year of Formation of the Fuchū Triumvirate1576
9/11Shibata Katsuie Issues a Free-Market Ordinance at Kitanoshō
Shibata Katsuie issued a free-market ordinance at Kitanoshō to encourage commerce in the castle town and consolidate his rule in Echizen.
1576 map — the year of Shibata Katsuie Issues a Free-Market Ordinance at Kitanoshō1581
1582
1583
6/14Fall of Kitanoshō Castle
After retreating from Shizugatake, Shibata Katsuie was attacked by Hashiba forces at Kitanoshō Castle and took his own life with Lady Oichi.
See this battle in detail →1584
1585
1586
1587
1588
1589
1590
1591 –1597
1598 –1599
1600
青木一矩・大谷吉継ほか
石田方北ノ庄の青木一矩と敦賀の大谷吉継が西軍に属し、戦後に結城秀康が入った／関ヶ原で国を抑えた大名の属した陣営で塗る／関ヶ原合戦後に結城秀康へ移行1601 –1602
1603 –1607
1608 –1616
Advertisement