Online dictionary of history and traditions in Japan: Imagawa Yoshimoto

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Imagawa Yoshimoto

今川義元
alternative words: Yoshimoto Imagawa, Yoshimoto
keywords: famous person , war lord
related topics: Sengoku period , Oda Nobunaga , Takeda Shingen , Shugo
related web sites: http://www2.tokai.or.jp/marco/imakawa/imagwa00.htm , http://www.j-text.com/sheet/yoshimoto.html , http://www.tenshoudou.co.jp/tenshoudou_133.htm
explanation: Born in 1519 as son of Imagawa Ujichika, a local governor (Shugo) in Shizuoka prefecture. After the death of the eldest son of Ujichika, he got the house succession. During an incursion into the territory of Oda clan in the west, he suffered an invasion of Hojo clan in the east. So he had to conclude a triple alliance with Takeda Shingen and Hojo Ujiyasu. During the second incursion into the territory of Oda clan in 1560, he was killed by a surprise attack of Nobunaga in the battle of Okehazama.