Siege of Iwamura

Siege of Iwamura

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Siege of Iwamura
partof=the Sengoku period


caption=
date=1572
place=Iwamura Castle, Mino province, Japan
result=Castle falls; Akiyama victory
combatant1=forces loyal to Takeda Shingen
combatant2=Iwamura castle garrison
commander1=Akiyama Nobutomo
commander2=Tōyama Kagetō
strength1=
strength2=
casualties1=None
casualties2=None

The 1572 siege of Iwamura was concurrent with Takeda Shingen's push into Tōtōmi Province and the famous Battle of Mikatagahara. Akiyama Nobutomo, one of Shingen's "Twenty-Four Generals," set his eye on the great "yamashiro" (mountain castle) of Iwamura when Tōyama Kagetō, the commander of the castle's garrison, fell ill and died.

Akiyama negotiated the castle's surrender with Tōyama's widow, and took it without any bloodshed. The official keeper of the castle, a seven-year old lord called Gobōmaru, was taken to the Takeda home province of Kai as a hostage.

References

*Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.


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