| Siege of Hachigata (1590) | |||||||
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| Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi | Hōjō clan forces | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Maeda Toshiie Uesugi Kagekatsu | Hōjō Ujikuni | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 35,000 | Unknown | ||||||
The 1590 siege of Hachigata was the penultimate battle of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaigns against the Hōjō clan, during Japan's Sengoku period. Hachigata was one of the last major fortresses of the Hōjō, whose opposition in the Kantō region Hideyoshi sought to eliminate, having already subjugated all of Western Japan.[1]
The besieging force of 35,000 men was led by Maeda Toshiie and Uesugi Kagekatsu. The Hōjō garrison under the command of Hōjō Ujikuni held out for over a month before the castle fell.
In popular culture[edit | edit source]
- The Floating Castle (2012) by Shinji Higuchi and Isshin Inudo is a comedy-drama film which relates the events of the Siege of Hachigata.[2]
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Notes
- ↑ Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co.
- ↑ The Floating Castle at the Internet Movie Database
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