The “Tensei Iga War” that crippled the #ninja

In the 6th year of Tensei (1578), the ruler of #Ise, Kitabatake Nobukatsu (the second son of Oda Nobunaga was adopted by Kitabatake and inherited the reins of the family) planned to attack Iga with #Maruyama #Castle as base, but retreated in the face of an attack from the troops of Iga. In the 7th year of Tensei (1579), #Kitabatake #Nobukatsu regrouped and again attacked Iga, but was defeated by the resistance of Iga’s troops. Upon hearing of this (the First Tensei Iga War), #Oda #Nobunaga was sorely angry, and decided to go to battle himself. In the 9th year of #Tensei (1581), he led his 50,000 troops to Iga, burning all of its lands and repeatedly slaughtering adults and children alike. The Iga troops resisted to the end, but a compromise was made, and they submitted. This is the only war in which the Iga region was crippled by attack, and the 800-year manorial system of Iga region was finished, and the ninja were scattered among all lands thereafter (Second Tensei #Iga #War).