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Motoshige held [[Aki-Kanayama Castle|Kanayama Castle]] [銀山城] in [[Aki province|Aki Province]].  In 1508 he joined [[Ouchi Yoshioki|Ôuchi Yoshioki]] in the latter's expedition to Kyoto.  Yoshioki was compelled to return to his domain when his lands were threatened by the [[Amako clan|Amako]] and, sensing the opportunity, Motoshige cut his ties with the Ôuchi and began to expand his power in Aki Province.  He attempted to subdue the independent-minded [[Mori clan|Môri]] and took advantage of the death of [[Mori Okimoto|Môri Okimoto]] in 1516 to attack [[Arita Castle]] [有田城] the following year with an army of 5,000 men. In the 10th month, [[Mori Motonari|Môri Motonari]], allied with the Kikkawa and Kobayakawa families, moved to retake Arita.  The Takeda suffered the defeat of their vanguard commander, [[Kumagai Motonao]] [熊谷元直], in the ensuing fighting.  Motoshige himself brought the remainder of his army to attack Motonari and was pressing the latter hard but was killed on horseback by an archer.  He was succeeded by his son [[Mitsuo]] [光和, d.1535].  The fortunes of the Takeda gradually waned after Motoshige's death at the [[Battle of Arita-Nakaide]] and ended with the capture of Kanayama by the Mori in 1541 and the flight of [[Takeda Nobuzane]] to [[Izumo province]].

Motoshige held [[Aki-Kanayama Castle|Kanayama Castle]] [銀山城] in [[Aki province|Aki Province]].  At the end of the 15th Century the Takeda had suffered a period of internal unrest and as a result were forced to accept the authority of the encroaching Ôuchi.  Motoshige was himself married to an adopted daughter of [[Ouchi Yoshioki|Ôuchi Yoshioki]] and in 1508 he joined Yoshioki in the latter's expedition to Kyoto in support of deposed shôgun, [[Ashikaga Yoshitane]].  Motoshige later returned to Aki and cut his ties with Yoshioki, who remained in Kyoto with the bulk of his army.  He divorced his Yoshioki's adopted daughter and married a daughter of [[Amako Hisayuki]], thus sealing an alliance with that family. He took advantage of Yoshioki's involvement in Kyoto and the death of [[Mori Okimoto|Môri Okimoto]] in 1516 to attack [[Arita Castle]] [有田城] in the Kikkawa domain the following year. In the 10th month, [[Mori Motonari|Môri Motonari]], allied with the Kikkawa and Kobayakawa families, moved to relieve Arita.  The Takeda suffered the defeat of their vanguard commander, [[Kumagai Motonao]] [熊谷元直], in the ensuing fighting.  Motoshige himself brought the remainder of his army to attack Motonari and was pressing the latter hard but was then killed on horseback by an archer.  He was succeeded by his son [[Mitsuo]] [光和, d.1535].  The fortunes of the Takeda gradually waned after Motoshige's death at the [[Battle of Arita-Nakaide]] and ended with the capture of Kanayama by the Mori in 1541 and the flight of [[Takeda Nobuzane]] to [[Izumo province]].

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