The Mongol Invasions and the Fall of KamakuraExpansion eras
1268–1333
The Mongol Invasions and the Fall of Kamakura (1268–1333). You start as Retainer and could rise all the way to General, if you survive. This era covers 35 historical battles.
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- Retainer
- Samurai
- Gokenin
- Jitō
- Deputy constable
- Constable
- General
Historical battles
| Year | Battle | Est. casualties |
|---|---|---|
| 1272 | Nigatsu DisturbanceAccusing them of treason, the regent Hōjō Tokimune had the brothers Nagoe Tokiakira and Noritoki killed in Kamakura, and ordered the Rokuhara to attack and kill his half-brother Hōjō Tokisuke. Afterward Tokiakira was found innocent, and the men who had killed him were beheaded. | ≈4% |
| 1274 | Battle of Komoda Beach, TsushimaIn the tenth month, the Yuan and Goryeo fleet appeared off Tsushima. The deputy constable Sō Sukekuni went out to meet them with some eighty horsemen. Every one of them was killed. | ≈50% |
| 1274 | Battle of Hizume Castle, IkiThe deputy constable Taira no Kagetaka met the invaders on Iki and fell back to Hizume Castle. When the castle fell, he took his own life. Many of the islanders were killed or carried off. | ≈50% |
| 1274 | Battles of Momochibaru and AkasakaOn the twentieth day of the tenth month, the Yuan army landed on the west side of Hakata Bay. Kikuchi Takefusa of Higo charged with his clansmen at Akasaka and drove the enemy off the hill. | ≈7% |
| 1274 | Battle of TorikaigataTakezaki Suenaga, a gokenin of Higo, charged the enemy lines with his men, only five riders in all. His horse was hit by arrows and he was wounded himself, but Shiraishi Michiyasu's main force arrived just in time. The enemy used short bows and threw a kind of exploding "iron bomb." | ≈10% |
| 1274 | Battle of Hakozaki and HakataThe Japanese fell back all the way, and the Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine was burned. After dark, everyone withdrew to the Mizuki earthworks in front of Dazaifu. The next morning, every enemy ship in Hakata Bay was gone. | ≈20% |
| 1281 | Battles of Tsushima and IkiIn the fifth month, the Eastern Route Army sailed from Happo in Goryeo and attacked Tsushima and Iki once again. | ≈50% |
| 1281 | Hakata Bay: The Stone WallIn early sixth month, the Eastern Route Army sailed into Hakata Bay. Twenty kilometers of stone wall stood along the shore, and the enemy could find nowhere to land. | ≈4% |
| 1281 | Battle of UminonakamichiThe enemy ships moved to anchor off Shika Island. The Japanese attacked along Uminonakamichi, the sandbar that links Shika Island to the mainland, and the two sides fought back and forth on the sand for days. | ≈12% |
| 1281 | Night Raid on Shika IslandGokenin rowed small boats up to the enemy ships in the dark, climbed aboard and fought hand to hand. Kōno Michiari of Iyo was wounded but still brought back an enemy commander as his prisoner. | ≈15% |
| 1281 | Battle of Setoura, IkiAt the end of the sixth month, the Kyushu gokenin crossed the sea to attack the Eastern Route Army, which had pulled back to Iki. Shōni Tsunesuke's son Suketoki was killed; he was nineteen. The Eastern Route Army withdrew to Hirado to join the Southern Route Army. | ≈12% |
| 1281 | Battle of TakashimaThe ships of the Southern and Eastern Route Armies gathered around Takashima in Hizen. On the first day of the intercalary seventh month, a great storm smashed the fleet to pieces. A few days later the Japanese landed on the island and hunted down the enemy soldiers left behind. According to the History of Yuan, the Mongols, Koreans and northern Chinese were killed, while the former Southern Song soldiers were kept alive as slaves. | ≈50% |
| 1285 | Shimotsuki IncidentIn the eleventh month, Taira no Yoritsuna, chief steward of the Hōjō main line, accused Adachi Yasumori of treason and attacked and killed Yasumori's whole family in Kamakura. The gokenin who sided with the Adachi were killed or took their own lives. | ≈8% |
| 1285 | Battle of IwatoThe aftershock of the Shimotsuki Incident reached Kyushu. Shōni Kagesuke, who had sided with the Adachi, was attacked and destroyed at Iwato Castle in Chikuzen by his own elder brother Tsunesuke. | ≈6% |
| 1293 | Heizen Gate IncidentIn the fourth month, just nine days after a great earthquake struck Kamakura, the regent Hōjō Sadatoki sent troops to surround Taira no Yoritsuna's mansion. Yoritsuna and his second son, Iinuma Sukemune, both died. | ≈3% |
| 1305 | Kagen IncidentIn the fourth month, Hōjō Munekata led troops to kill the co-signer Hōjō Tokimura, claiming he was acting on orders. Before long Munekata himself was hunted down and killed in Kamakura. | ≈4% |
| 1324 | Shōchū IncidentIn the ninth month, a plot by the emperor's inner circle to overthrow the shogunate was exposed. The Rokuhara sent troops against Toki Yorikane and Tajimi Kuninaga in Kyoto, and both took their own lives. The emperor claimed to know nothing, and his close aide Hino Suketomo was exiled to Sado. | ≈3% |
| 1326 | Tsugaru ExpeditionIn Tsugaru in the far north, the Andō clan, the shogunate's deputies over the Emishi, fell to fighting over the succession. The shogunate sent Kudō Sukesada north; he captured Andō Suenaga and brought him back to Kamakura. | ≈3% |
| 1327 | Tsugaru UprisingSuenaga's kinsmen held out in their mountain forts, and the fighting went on. The shogunate sent Utsunomiya Takasada and Oda Takatomo north to put it down. The fighting dragged into the next year and finally ended in a negotiated peace. | ≈7% |
| 1331 | Battle of Mount KasagiIn the eighth month, the emperor fled Kyoto with the Three Sacred Treasures and hid in a temple on Mount Kasagi. The shogunate brought a great army from the Kantō, broke into Kasagi at the end of the ninth month, and took the emperor back. | ≈30% |
| 1331 | Battle of Shimo-Akasaka CastleKusunoki Masashige of Kawachi built a small castle at Akasaka. According to the Taiheiki, the defenders rolled logs down from the walls, poured boiling water on the attackers, and had a false wall that collapsed all at once. The castle fell in the tenth month; Kusunoki set it on fire and escaped. | ≈12% |
| 1332 | Recapture of Akasaka CastleKusunoki Masashige rose again and retook Akasaka Castle. Prince Moriyoshi raised troops at Yoshino, and his orders spread through every province. | ≈10% |
| 1333 | Fall of YoshinoIn the intercalary second month, the shogunate army broke into Yoshino. According to the Taiheiki, Murakami Yoshiteru put on Prince Moriyoshi's armor and killed himself on the gate tower to buy the prince time to escape. | ≈35% |
| 1333 | Fall of Kami-Akasaka CastleThe shogunate army cut off the castle's water. The commander, Hirano Shōgen, opened the gates and surrendered, and was taken to Kyoto and beheaded. | ≈30% |
| 1333 | Siege of Chihaya CastleKusunoki Masashige fell back to Chihaya Castle on Mount Kongō. According to the Taiheiki, he used straw dummies to lure the enemy forward and rolled great boulders down the mountain on them. The shogunate's huge army besieged the castle for nearly a hundred days and never took it. | ≈12% |
| 1333 | Battle of Mount SenjōThe emperor escaped from Oki, and Nawa Nagatoshi of Hōki brought him to Mount Senjō. At the end of the intercalary second month, Sasaki Kiyotaka, constable of Oki, attacked and was driven off. | ≈20% |
| 1333 | Battle of Mount MayaAkamatsu Norimura of Harima received Prince Moriyoshi's orders and marched on Kyoto. At Mount Maya in Settsu he beat back the army the Rokuhara sent against him. | ≈15% |
| 1333 | Battle for KyotoIn the third month, the Akamatsu army fought its way into Kyoto and battled the Rokuhara troops in the streets, but was finally driven back. | ≈15% |
| 1333 | Kikuchi Taketoki's Attack on the Chinzei TandaiIn the third month, Kikuchi Taketoki of Higo received an edict from the emperor and attacked the Chinzei Tandai in Hakata. Shōni Sadatsune and Ōtomo Sadamune, who had promised to rise with him, backed out at the last moment, and Kikuchi Taketoki was killed. | ≈3% |
| 1333 | Battle of KoganawateOn the twenty-seventh day of the fourth month, at Koganawate south of Kyoto, the shogunate general Nagoe Takaie was shot dead with a single arrow by Sayo Norie of the Akamatsu army. | ≈15% |
| 1333 | Fall of RokuharaOn the seventh day of the fifth month, Ashikaga Takauji, Akamatsu Norimura and Chigusa Tadaaki broke into Kyoto and stormed the Rokuhara. Hōjō Nakatoki fled east with Emperor Kōgon and the two retired emperors; at Renge-ji in Banba, Ōmi, more than 430 men took their own lives together. | ≈25% |
| 1333 | Battle of KotesashigaharaOn the eighth day of the fifth month, Nitta Yoshisada of Kōzuke raised troops at the Ikushina Shrine and marched south, with Kantō warriors joining him all along the way. On the eleventh he defeated the shogunate army at Kotesashigahara in Musashi. | ≈12% |
| 1333 | Battle of BubaigawaraOn the first day, the Nitta army was driven back by Hōjō Yasuie. At dawn on the second day, reinforced by the Miura clan, the Nitta army struck by surprise, and the shogunate army broke. | ≈20% |
| 1333 | Battle of Inamuragasaki and KamakuraThe Nitta army attacked Kamakura on three roads and was held at the Gokurakuji and Kobukuro passes. According to the Taiheiki, Nitta Yoshisada threw his sword into the sea and prayed; the tide went out, and his army charged into the city along the beach at Inamuragasaki. On the twenty-second day of the fifth month, Hōjō Takatoki and his clan took their own lives at Tōshō-ji. | ≈35% |
| 1333 | Fall of the Chinzei TandaiOn the twenty-fifth day of the fifth month, Shōni Sadatsune, Ōtomo Sadamune and Shimazu Sadahisa attacked the Chinzei Tandai in Hakata. The Tandai, Hōjō Hidetoki, was defeated and killed, and Hōjō power in Kyushu was gone. | ≈40% |
Casualty rates are the game's estimates from historical sources, used to work out the chance of dying. Treat them as approximate.
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