Siege of Suemori

The Siege of Suemori (末森の戦い) was a battle during the Azuchi-Momoyama period (16th century) of Japan.

At the time of the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute, Sasa Narimasa had sided against Toyotomi Hideyoshi, while his former companion, Maeda Toshiie stook strongly with the Toyotomi. Narimasa and Toshiie came to their blows by battling at the castle of Suemori. Narimasa had laid siege to the Suemori castle during the 9th of October with the strength of 15,000 men. Okumura Nagatomi, along with his wife, had defended the castle to their fullest extent. The garrison soon become very desperate, in which Toshiie arrived after the middle of the night had come about, defeating the forces of Narimasa with his relief force. Through this action on the part of Toshiie, he became established as the most powerful of daimyo within that region of Japan.