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Siege of Kaminoyama 
Summary
The siege of Kaminoyama took place in 1600, at the end of Japan's Sengoku period. It was one of many battles making up the Sekigahara Campaign, in which Tokugawa Ieyasu eliminated the last opposition to his domination of the Japanese islands.
| Siege of Kaminoyama | |||||||||
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| Part of the Sekigahara Campaign | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Western army forces: Uesugi clan forces |
Eastern Army forces: Mogami clan garrison | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Honmura Chikamori † Yokota Munetoshi | Satomi Minbu | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 4000 | |||||||||
Honmura Chikamori and Yokota Munetoshi, commanders under Naoe Kanetsugu, led 4,000 men against the castle of Kaminoyama in Yamagata province while Naoe led another division towards the province. Kaminoyama was held by Satomi Minbu, a retainer of the Mogami clan which was aligned with Tokugawa. Honmura was killed in the fighting, but in the end the castle fell to the Uesugi forces.
References edit
- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.