Battle of Inō explained

Conflict:Battle of Inō
Date:September 27, 1556 (Kōji era)
Place:Nagoya, Owari Province, Japan
Map Type:Japan Aichi Prefecture#Japan
Map Relief:yes
Result:Oda Nobunaga victory
Combatant1:forces of Oda Nobunaga
Combatant2:forces of Oda Nobuyuki
Commander1:Oda Nobunaga
Maeda Toshiie
Oda Shōsaemon
Oda Nobufusa
Mori Yoshinari
Sakuma Morishige
Sakuma Nobumori
Sassa Magosuke
Niwa Nagahide
Ikeda Tsuneoki
Commander2:Oda Nobuyuki
Oda Nobuyasu
Hayashi Hidesada
Hayashi Mimasaka
Shibata Katsuie
Strength1:700
Strength2:1,700
Casualties1:unknown
Casualties2:more than 450

The Battle of Inō took place during the Sengoku period (16th century) of Japan. The battle was fought in Owari Province, in what is now Nishi-ku, Nagoya, between two forces of the Oda clan: the head of the clan Oda Nobunaga and his brother Oda Nobuyuki, who with the support of Oda Nobuyasu, Shibata Katsuie and Hayashi Hidesada, rebelled against Nobunaga.[1]

The three conspirators were defeated at the Battle of Inō, but they were pardoned after the intervention of Tsuchida Gozen, the birth mother of both Nobunaga and Nobuyuki.

Nobuyuki began his second rebellion in 1557, but was defeated and his Suemori Castle was destroyed by Nobunaga's retainer Ikeda Nobuteru.[2]

In 1558, however, Nobuyuki again planned to rebel. When Nobunaga was informed of this by Shibata Katsuie, he faked illness to get close to Nobuyuki and assassinated him in Kiyosu Castle.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ōta, Gyūichi. The chronicle of Lord Nobunaga. 2011. Brill. J. S. A. Elisonas, Jeroen Pieter Lamers. 978-90-04-20456-0. Leiden. 72-93. 743693801.
  2. Book: Turnbull, Stephen . The Samurai Sourcebook . Cassell & Co. . 1998 . 1854095234 . 69.