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 | | In 1180, in one of the more famous battles in which sohei participated, the monks of Miidera, along with a force of Minamoto samurai, tried to defend the bridge over the river Uji, and the Byodoin temple behind it, from an attacking Taira force (see Battle of Uji (1180)). |
 | | Tokugawa Ieyasu attacked the monks of Mikawa in 1564, in the Battle of Azukizaka, and failed to defeat them, but returned shortly afterwards with a contingent of warrior monks from his own religious sect, Jodo-shu, and, after defeating the monks in battle, burned all their temples to the ground. |
 | | At the two Battles of Kizugawaguchi, Nobunaga defeated his enemies, the Mori clan, who had naval control over the area. |
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