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| Siege of Marune | |||||||
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| Part ofBattle of Okehazama | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| forces ofImagawa Yoshimoto | forces ofOda Nobunaga | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Matsudaira Motoyasu Sakai Tadatsugu Ishikawa Kazumasa Koriki Kiyonaga | Sakuma Morishige † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 5,000 | 600 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| significant | entire garrison | ||||||
  Siege of Marune (Japan) Show map of Japan | |||||||
Thesiege of Marune (丸根砦の戦い) was a battle during theSengoku period (16th century) of Japan.Marune was a frontier fortress in the possession ofOda Nobunaga.
Matsudaira Motoyasu (who would later come to be known as Tokugawa Ieyasu) was at the time a forced retainer of theImagawa, captured the fortress as part of the Imagawa advance that led to the fatefulBattle of Okehazama in 1560. Throughout Motoyasu's siege of the castle, he and his men were not present at the Battle of Okehazama whereImagawa Yoshimoto was killed in Nobunaga's surprise assault.
In this siege, Motoyasu made good use of concentratedarquebus fire. Later during the siege,Sakuma Morishige the commander of the fortress, was killed by a bullet.[1]
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