When and where did the Battle of Sekigahara take place?

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Statue of Tokugawa Ieyasu in ornate robes holding a bow, with arrows on his back, at the Tosho-gu shrine in Nikko, Japan. — Tokugawa Ieyasu Statue of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Tōshō Shrine in Nikkō, Japan.

The Battle of Sekigahara took place on October 21, 1600. The conflict was fought in a mountainous valley at the village of Sekigahara, located in central Honshu, Japan.1