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The siege of Osaka (大坂の役, Ōsaka no Eki, or, more commonly, 大坂の陣 Ōsaka no Jin) was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages, the winter campaign and the summer campaign, it lasted from 1614 to 1615.
Siege of Osaka The Sanada Maru ( 真田丸 （さなだまる） , Sanada Maru ) was a small fortification attached to Osaka castle . It is famous for being impregnable and playing a key role in defending the castle in the winter of 1615 .
Sanada Maru (真田丸) is a 2016 Japanese historical drama television series and the 55th NHK taiga drama. [1] The series is named after the Sanada Maru, a fortification defended by Sanada during the Siege of Osaka in 1615.
In 1615, a grown Hideyori leads an army against the Tokugawa to claim leadership of Japan. The Tokugawa and its allies defeat the Toyotomi coalition at the Siege of Osaka, resulting in Hideyori's death. Ieyasu passes away in 1616, but the Tokugawa shogunate will go on to rule Japan and hold the peace for more than 250 years.
The Siege of Osaka, which took place in 1614–1615, was essentially the last gasp for Toyotomi Hideyori, heir to Hideyoshi, and an alliance of clans and other elements who opposed the shogunate. A samurai battle on a grand scale, in terms of strategy, scale, methods employed, and the political causes behind it, this is widely considered the ...
Whirlwind (士魂魔道 大竜巻, Shikonmado Daitatsumaki) is a 1964 Japanese historical drama film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. [1] The film is set during the seventeenth century and is about the aftermath of the Siege of Osaka .
Hiroki Matsukata as Sanada Yukimura; Chiezō Kataoka as Sanada Masayuki; Tatsuo Umemiya as Sanada Nobuyuki; Teruhiko Aoi as Sarutobi Sasuke; Guts Ishimatsu as Unno Rokurō; Minori Terada as Kirigakure Saizō
The Castle of Osaka was symbolic as it was the power-base of the Tokugawa Bakufu in Western Japan. It was also historically significant and it had been the location of the Siege of Osaka, the decisive battle which established the power of the Tokugawa more than two centuries before. [1]