The Battle of Sekigahara: The History and Legacy of the Battle that Unified Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate PER001000 Author: Ryan S Andes

Author: Ryan S Andes

from Cape Town to Cairo

which has as its ambition the rescuing of the past from oblivion

ISBN13: 9781949626056

all to enlighten

The Battle of Sekigahara: The History and Legacy of the Battle that Unified Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate PER001000 Author: Ryan S Andes*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading On October 21, 1600, two massive Japanese armies, totaling an estimated 200,000 soldiers armed to the teeth with swords, yari (spears), arrows, muskets and cannons, faced off on a battlefield near the town of Sekigahara. A bitter fight to the death ensued, and the results would determine the course of Japanese history for the next 250 years. On the battlefield was the warlord Ieyasu