page_title: Battle of Mikatagahara
section_title: Takeda's second attack
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Mikatagahara / Takeda's second attack
caption_attribution_description: 徳川家康。画名「徳川家康三方ヶ原戦役画像」　Tokugawa Ieyasu Mikatagahara Seneki Gazou .　別名「顰み（しかみ）像」　三方が原の戦いにおいて、武田信玄率いる武田軍に敗れたあと、その経験を忘れないように描かせた肖像画。
context_page_description: The Battle of Mikatagahara was one of the most famous battles of Takeda Shingen's campaigns, and one of the best demonstrations of his cavalry-based tactics. It was also one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's worst defeats, and complete disaster was only narrowly averted.
  According to the Japanese calendar, the battle was fought on the 22nd day of the 12th month of the 3rd year of Genki.
context_section_description: Shingen then withdrew his vanguard, offering them an opportunity to rest. He then brought forward a new set of horsemen from the army's main body, ordering Takeda Katsuyori, Obata Masamori, and Saegusa Moritomo to lead a two-pronged cavalry charge into the weakening Tokugawa line. They were closely followed by the footsoldier-heavy main body of the Takeda army, whose combined weight drove the already battered Tokugawa army into a disorderly retreat. In an effort to reorganize his rapidly dissolving army, Ieyasu ordered his commander Ōkubo Tadayo to plant his golden fan standard (uma-jirushi) upon a hill and rally his troops towards the castle town of Saigadake. He then sought to personally re-engage the Takeda army to free his trapped general Mizuno Tadashige, but was persuaded by Natsume Yoshinobu to retreat; as head of the Tokugawa clan, Ieyasu's life was too important. Yoshinobu then led a suicide charge against the Takeda army to buy time for Ieyasu's retreat, and was killed.  Other notable Tokugawa retainers killed in the fighting were Naruse Masayoshi, Toyama Kosaku, and Endo Ukon, who all perished as their units were encircled and overrun by the Takeda forces.
caption: Tokugawa Ieyasu after his defeat at Mikatagahara
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