On one side was Takeda Katsuyori (1546–1582), son of Takeda Shingen (1521–1573), who had built one of the most fearsome armies of the era. Opposing him were the combined forces of Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) and his retainer Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616), the future shogun.

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