The Azai clan (Japanese: 浅井氏, Hepburn: Azai-shi), also rendered as Asai, was a Japanese clan during the Sengoku period. The Azai clan was a line of daimyōs...

the brother-in-law and enemy of Oda Nobunaga. Nagamasa was head of the Azai clan seated at Odani Castle in northern Ōmi Province and married Nobunaga's...

Azai Sukemasa (浅井 亮政, 1491 – January 21, 1542) was the Sengoku era head of the Azai clan. Sukemasa was a retainer of the Kyōgoku clan but when the Kyōgoku...

Azai Hisamasa (浅井 久政, Azai Hisamasa, 1526 – September 23, 1573) was a son of Azai Sukemasa and the second head of the Azai clan. Hisamasa became the head...

Kitanosho, sieges that led to the extermination of the powerful Azai and Shibata clan, respectively. Oichi was born in 1547 in Nagoya Castle, Owari Province...

Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, against the combined forces of the Azai and Asakura clans. It is notable as the first battle that involved the alliance between...

forces under Azai Nagamasa and Rokkaku Yoshikata in the year 1560. Azai Nagamasa had previously been a retainer under the Rokkaku clan, and sought independence...

one by one achieved dominance over the Imagawa, Saitō, Azai, Asakura, Takeda and other clans, until Nobunaga held control over central Japan. However...

the Azai clan, one of Oda Nobunaga's chief opponents. and the first battle of Oda Nobutada. In September, 1573, Oda Nobunaga defeated the Asakura clan at...

attackers and rescue his sensei, Azai, as well as several other members of the clan. Before being rescued by the protagonist, Azai was being blamed by the attackers...

joined the campaigns against the Saitō, Azai, and Asakura. Father and son died in the battle against the Azai-Asakura armies, and Mori Nagayoshi, second...

generation lord of the Saitō clan. He was a son of Saitō Yoshitatsu. His mother was daughter of Azai Hisamasa and nephew of Azai Nagamasa, a grandson of Saitō...

that held power in Toyooka until the Meiji Restoration. Sasaki clan Rokkaku clan Azai Sukemasa (1491–1542) Kyōgoku In (1245–1272), consort of Emperor...

figure in the late Sengoku period. She was daughter of Oichi and Nagamasa Azai, and the sister of Yodo-dono and Oeyo. Alongside her sisters, she was active...

Azai (浅井町, Azai-chō) was a town located in Higashiazai District, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. In Sengoku period, Azai clan based here and Battle of Anegawa...

defeated the combined forces of the Asakura and Azai clans.: 282  In 1573, is the end of Azai and Asakura clans, Nobunaga marched leading 30,000 troops which...

(631–686). The family was a line of daimyō (feudal lords) who, along with the Azai clan, opposed Oda Nobunaga in the late 16th century. Nobunaga defeated the...

Prefecture, Japan. Only the ruins remain today. It was the home castle of the Azai clan and the mountain it was built upon was considered to be impregnable. The...

Atagi clan (安宅氏) – cadet branch of Ogasawara clan who descended from Seiwa Genji (disputed). Azai clan (浅井氏) – descended from Fujiwara clan; famous...

the Toyotomi clan lost much of its influence and importance. Yodo-dono founded the temple Yogen-in (養源院) in memory of her father Azai Nagamasa and her...

stronghold of Ōmi Province. The Azai clan held this castle in the Sengoku Period. Niwa Nagahide held it after the ruin of the Azai clan and later, Ishida Mitsunari...

at the battle.: 62  As the Oda clan engaged the Azai clan army on the right, Tokugawa forces engaged the Asakura clan's army on the left. At first, the...

Isono Kazumasa (磯野 員昌, 1534–1583) was a senior retainer of the Azai clan, later Oda clan and the castle lord in command of Sawayama castle. In 1570, at...

conflict with the Asakura clan in Echizen Province, which was allied with Azai Nagamasa. Asakura Yoshikage, the head of the Asakura clan and regent to Ashikaga...

Oda clan and Tokugawa clan) Nichiren sect Tendai sōhei Jōdo-shū sōhei Ikkō-shū peasant and ji-samurai leagues Jōdo Shinshū sōhei Mōri clan Azai clan Asakura...

Nagamasa Azai (浅井長政, Azai Nagamasa) Voiced by: Kōji Tsujitani (Japanese); Christopher Bevins (English) Nagamasa was a former ally of the Oda clan, but now...

(1607-1678) 1573: Born 1573: Azai Nagamasa and Manpukumaru committed suicide, Oichi and her daughters returned to Oda clan. 1579: Moved to Azuchi Castle...

Nagamasa's left flank, they finally managed to overcame the Azai army. In 1572, during the Takeda clan campaign in Mikawa, Tadakatsu participated in the forces...

Sengoku period, the area was contested between the Kyogoku clan, Azai clan and Asakura clan. The city center was developed and renamed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi...

However, in 1523, the Kyōgoku clan was weakened by internal conflicts, and much of their territory by seized by Azai Sukemasa. The Joheiji-kan ruins...