東とう軍ぐん

noun

eastern army

General term for an army positioned in or coming from the east, especially in a civil war context.

• 内ない戦せんでは東とう軍ぐんと西せい軍ぐんに分わかれて戦たたかった。

  In the civil war, they fought divided into the eastern army and the western army.

noun

Eastern Army (Sekigahara)

Historical term specifically referring to the Eastern Army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.

• 関ヶ原の戦いせきがはらのたたかいでは、東とう軍ぐんが西せい軍ぐんを破やぶった。

  At the Battle of Sekigahara, the Eastern Army defeated the Western Army.