Siege of Marune explained

Conflict:Siege of Marune
Partof:Battle of Okehazama
Date:1560
Place:Owari Province
Coordinates:35.0644°N 136.9453°W
Map Type:Japan Aichi Prefecture#Japan
Map Relief:1
Result:Imagawa victory
Combatant1:forces of Imagawa Yoshimoto
Combatant2:forces of Oda Nobunaga
Commander1:Matsudaira Motoyasu
Sakai Tadatsugu
Ishikawa Kazumasa
Koriki Kiyonaga
Commander2:Sakuma Morishige
Strength1:5,000
Strength2:600
Casualties1:significant
Casualties2:entire garrison

The was a battle during the Sengoku period (16th century) of Japan.Marune was a frontier fortress in the possession of Oda Nobunaga.

Matsudaira Motoyasu (who would later come to be known as Tokugawa Ieyasu) was at the time a forced retainer of the Imagawa, captured the fortress as part of the Imagawa advance that led to the fateful Battle of Okehazama in 1560. Throughout Motoyasu's siege of the castle, he and his men were not present at the Battle of Okehazama where Imagawa Yoshimoto was killed in Nobunaga's surprise assault.

In this siege, Motoyasu made good use of concentrated arquebus fire. Later during the siege, Sakuma Morishige the commander of the fortress, was killed by a bullet.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Turnbull, Stephen . The Samurai Sourcebook . Cassell & Co. . 1998 . 1854095234 . 215.