What the records say
- When
- 3 Jun 1615
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 34.65° N, 135.51° E
- Description
- 1615 battle
Battle of Tennōji
1615 battle
The Battle of Tennōji was fought on 3 June, 1615 between the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyori. Tokugawa was besieging Osaka, and Hideyori had planned a counterattack. Both sides were plagued by mistakes until Hideyori's side finally fell. He presumably committed suicide. The Toyotomi army suffered nearly 50% casualties in this battle, with more than 15,000 dead.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “bataille de Tennōji”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “天王寺口の戦い、御宿政友、三好清海、真田信繁、小笠原秀政、大谷吉治、本多忠朝、小笠原忠脩が戦死。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page