The Rivers

 Earlier this year, I wrote a post about how the rivers were a curse on Oda Nobuhide.

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Now here is some evidence that the rivers was the cause of Nobuhide's defeat.

David D. Neilson Society at War: Eyewitness Accounts of Sixteenth Century Japan

(pp. 123)

"I asked Joenbo and he says that Sunomata was a stronghold that was ideal for keeping an enemy at bay. From the time of Nobunaga's father, Oda Nobuhide, attempts were made to invade Mino, but time and again, his armies were defeated not by the enemy, but by the water of the river. That is why we picked the ninth month (as the best time to invade Mino). We went out during the dry season when peasants were busy with the harvest."

Tenka no tame!