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In the 16th century there were units consisting only of women, as was the case of Ikeda Sen who led 200 women musketeers (Teppo unit) in the Battle of Shizugatake and Battle of Komaki-Nagakute. Otazu no kata fought alongside 18 armed maids against Tokugawa Ieyasu’s troops. Ueno Tsuruhime led thirty-four women in a suicidal charge against the Mōri army.Tachibana Ginchiyo, leader of the Tachibana clan fought with her female troops in the Kyushu Campaign (1586) and in the Siege of Yanagawa (1600) she organized a resistance formed by nuns against the advance of the Eastern Army.In 1580, a woman from the Bessho clan joins a rebellion against Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Siege of Miki. Her husband Bessho Yoshichika was one of the leaders of the rebellion and she plays a key role during the siege, allying herself with the Mori clan.
The rebellion lasted three years, until Bessho Nagaharu surrendered the castle to Hideyoshi, Lady Bessho commits suicide shortly after. In 1582, Oda Nobunaga launched a final attack on the Takeda clan, a series of battles known as the Battle of Tenmokuzan. Oda Nobutada (son of Nobunaga) led 50,000 soldiers, against 3,000 allies of the Takeda clan during the Siege of Takato castle. During this battle, it is recorded in the compilation of chronicles from the Oda clan, Shinchō kōki, that a woman from the Suwa clan defies Nobutada’s forces.
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