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The most common version of the battle was set down by the General Staff of the Japanese Army in 1910 in its ''History of Warfare in Japan''.  Their source for the Battle of Nagashino was Oze Hoan’s ''Shincho-ki'', a later derivitive of the ''Shinchoko-ki''.  The ''Shinchoko-ki'', written by Oda and Toyotomi retainer Ota Gyuichi, is considered a far more reliable source of information on the campaigns of Oda Nobunaga.  It records that the armies of Oda and Tokugawa contained 1,000-not 3,000-rifles and says nothing about volley fire.

The most common version of the battle was set down by the General Staff of the Japanese Army in 1910 in its ''History of Warfare in Japan''.  Their source for the Battle of Nagashino was Oze Hoan’s ''Shincho-ki'', a later derivitive of the ''Shinchoko-ki''.  The ''Shinchoko-ki'', written by Oda and Toyotomi retainer Ota Gyuichi, is considered a far more reliable source of information on the campaigns of Oda Nobunaga.  It records that the armies of Oda and Tokugawa contained 1,000-not 3,000-rifles and says nothing about volley fire.

   

   

The Japanese scholar Owada Tetsuo has argued that the numbers involved in the battle were in fact half those depicted in the popular view of the battle.

The Japanese scholar Owada Tetsuo has argued that the numbers of men involved in the battle were in fact half those depicted in the popular view of the battle.

[[Category:Battles|Nagashino]]

[[Category:Battles|Nagashino]]

[[Category:Sengoku Period|Nagashino]]

[[Category:Sengoku Period|Nagashino]]