The Battle of the Barrel Narrow Space brought about a series of chain reactions, because Imakawa Yoshimoto was killed, and Takeda Shingen, who was supposed to avenge Imagawa Yoshimoto, took advantage of the fire and looting to prepare to divide the territory of the Imagawa family, regardless of the "Three Kingdoms Alliance" and the marriage relationship between the Imagawa family and the Takeda family.
Yoshimoto Imagawa
Of course, Takeda Shingen will also lose more because of his own shallow vision, which not only leads to his son turning against him, but even indirectly leads to the collapse of the Takeda family.
For Tokugawa Ieyasu, the death of Imagawa Yoshimoto and the decline of the Imagawa family allowed Tokugawa Ieyasu to escape the control of the Imagawa family and become an independent daimyō, allied with Oda Nobunaga.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
For Oda Nobunaga, it was also a landmark event for his rise, and the Battle of the Barrel Pan changed the balance of power between Owari Kuni and the Imagawa clan.
Oda Nobunaga
As soon as Imagawa Yoshimoto died, the Imagawa family became a scattered sand, and it was no longer possible to gather strength, so they could only sit back and wait for the demise, and the Three Kingdoms Alliance became an alliance between the two countries.
The Imagawa clan did not disappear completely, but the Imagawa family, as a samurai family, no longer existed, and the Imagawa clan retired from the political arena and remained in Kyoto for a long time to live in seclusion.
During the Edo period, the Imakawa clan was re-summoned by Tokugawa Ieyasu to become a vassal of the Five Hundred Stones, and during the Naobo period, the shogunate increased its five-hundred-stone domain by going to Kyoto to make peace with the imperial court.
In a way, the Imakawa clan was really lucky, and he was able to survive after the failure of the family power, which was rare in the Sengoku period.
The Battle of the Barrel Pan changed the fate of many of Japan's warlords during the Sengoku period, and Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga formed an alliance and maintained it until the fall of the Oda family.
The Oda family grew by leaps and bounds, while Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a vassal, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, an ally, were able to rise to the top.
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