Siege of Edo

Siege of Edo Castle in Japan

Siege of Edo

Part of the Sengoku period

Fushimi tower of Edo castle (now the Imperial Palace)
| Date| January 1524

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Location|

Edo castle, modern-day Tokyo

Result|  Hōjō victory
Belligerents
Hōjō Clan|  Uesugi Clan
Commanders and leaders
Hōjō Ujitsuna
Hōjō Genan|  Uesugi Tomooki
Ōta Suketaka

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Campaigns of the Hōjō clan

* Arai
* Edo
* Nashinokidaira
* Kamakura
* Ozawahara
* Musashi-Matsuyama 1537
* Kawagoe (1537)
* Kōnodai 1538
* Kawagoe (1545)
* Suruga-Sagami
* Odawara 1561
* Musashi-Matsuyama 1563
* Kōnodai 1564
* Hachigata 1568
* Odawara 1569
* Mimasetoge
* Kanbara
* Nirayama
* Fukazawa
* Omosu
* Kanagawa
* Tenshō-Jingo
* Hachigata 1590
* Odawara 1590
* Shimoda
* Oshi

In the 1524 Siege of Edo, also known as the Battle of Takanawahara (高輪原の戦い), the Hōjō, led by Hōjō Ujitsuna, besieged Edo castle,[1] which was held by Uesugi Tomooki. Though Edo has since become the Japanese metropolis of Tokyo, it was then a more or less insignificant fishing village in the Kantō region.

Eager to repel the attackers, Uesugi Tomooki led his warriors out of the castle to meet the Hōjō in battle at the Takanawa river crossing. However, Ujitsuna led his men around the Uesugi force and attacked them from the rear. Retreating to his castle, Tomooki found that the commander of his garrison, Ōta Suketaka, had betrayed him and opened the gates to the Hōjō.

The battle marked the beginning of a seventeen-year struggle between the Hōjō clans and Uesugi clans for dominance of the Kantō.

## References

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1. ^ Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassell & Co. p. 208\. ISBN 1854095234.

* Turnbull, Stephen (2002). 'War in Japan: 1467-1615'. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.

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