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Imagawa Yoshimoto今川義元alternative words: Yoshimoto Imagawa, Yoshimoto keywords: famous person , war lord related topics: Sengoku period , Oda Nobunaga , Takeda Shingen , Shugo related web sites: http://www2.tokai.or.jp/marco/imakawa/imagwa00.htm , http://www.j-text.com/sheet/yoshimoto.html , http://www.tenshoudou.co.jp/tenshoudou_133.htm explanation: Born in 1519 as son of Imagawa Ujichika, a local governor (Shugo) in Shizuoka prefecture. After the death of the eldest son of Ujichika, he got the house succession. During an incursion into the territory of Oda clan in the west, he suffered an invasion of Hojo clan in the east. So he had to conclude a triple alliance with Takeda Shingen and Hojo Ujiyasu. During the second incursion into the territory of Oda clan in 1560, he was killed by a surprise attack of Nobunaga in the battle of Okehazama. | |