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| | Gifu Prefecture, Sekigahara battlefield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Nearly two weeks later, Ieyasu's son and heir Tokugawa Hidetada lead the main force of 37,000 troops north, and at the same time thousands more samurai and ashigaru (foot soldiers and musketmen) from the Date, Maeda, Mogami, and from less powerful lords, began advancing on the Uesugi's territories from the north, east and west. |
 | | Hidetada's force had been at Karuizawa on September 1st (the day that Ieyasu had departed Edo), however bad weather (the Nakasendo traverses a mountainous route) and a siege of Ueda Castle (Shinano Province), and to some extent poor communications delayed his advance. |
 | | The army of the west had a numerical superiority, and the absence of Tokugawa Hidetada with the bulk of the Tokugawa army was crucial. |
| www.yamasa.org /japan/english/destinations/gifu/sekigahara.html (2523 words) |
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