I recently returned home from a month long trip back to Japan. Now I am slowly reading Yukio Kajino's 2025 Okehazama Seminar which was held at Chofukuji Temple May 2025.
Yoshimoto's invasion of Owari goal
Where was Yoshimoto's camp.
While his seminar did provide some answers and clues. Unfortunately, the old saying goes, there are more questions than answers. In this sense, it is good thing. There is a lot more reading material people can access now through the internet or libraries.
One of the first documentation of the Battle of Okehazama did come from Owari or Mikawa. It came from Echigo, the Kasugayama Nikki (1560?). It is now clear that Uesugi Kenshin sent scouts or spies to observe the battle and report the results.
Yukio Kajino does provide documentation from the Sengoku Era, most of the primary sources is from the early Edo Era. One document from the Edo Era is the Hosa Bunko Okehazama Kassen Zu (1650). This a map/document. It has listed that Yoshimoto's camp was at Urushiyama, far west from Arimatsu Okehazama Battlefield and the Toyoake City Battlefield. Another document Kajino provides is the Kantougekoumichinoki (1628). Why it is significant? It was the first documentation that mentioned anything related to the Toyoake City Battlefield.
I plan to write more in the future as I continue to read the paper.
Nobunaga no tame!
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