Siege of Edo
{{Short description|Siege of Edo Castle in Japan}}
{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Siege of Edo
|partof=the Sengoku period
|image=Imperial Palace Tokyo Fushimi Yagura Keep 1.JPG
|image_size=300px
|caption=Fushimi tower of Edo castle (now the Imperial Palace)
|date=January 1524
|place=Edo castle, modern-day Tokyo
|result=Hōjō victory
|combatant1=Hōjō Clan
|combatant2=Uesugi Clan
|commander1=Hōjō Ujitsuna
Hōjō Genan
|commander2=Uesugi Tomooki
Ōta Suketaka
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{{Campaignbox Campaigns of the Hōjō}}
In the 1524 siege of Edo, also known as the {{nihongo|Battle of Takanawahara|高輪原の戦い}}, the Hōjō, led by Hōjō Ujitsuna, besieged Edo castle,{{Cite book |last=Turnbull |first=Stephen |title=The Samurai Sourcebook |publisher=Cassell & Co. |year=1998 |ISBN=1854095234 |page=208}}
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.
Siege
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.
Aftermath
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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- Turnbull, Stephen (2002). 'War in Japan: 1467-1615'. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Edo 1524}}
Category:Sieges of the Sengoku period
Category:16th-century military history of Japan