Sakai River

 This is the Sakai River near the Meitetsu Ginan station in Gifu. The river looks calm and has seen its better days. That said, it played a critical role in defeating Oda Nobuhide not once, but twice when he tried to invade Mino in the 1540s. The rivers such as the Sakai and Nagaragawa were untamed and free flowing which made the tides unpredictable. Dosan understood this. He knew when to attack when the tides of the rivers to his advantage. While Nobuhide's army was fleeing from a disastrous defeat, many soldiers died drowning while crossing the river. It must have been a gruesome scene while soldiers were drowning in agony. In the end, the main enemy in Mino was not Saito Dosan, it was the unpredictable rivers.

Nobunaga no tame!