Siege of Tanabe

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


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date=1600
place= Tanabe castle, on the Kii Peninsula, Japan
result=Western army victory
combatant1=Forces loyal to Tokugawa Ieyasu
combatant2=Forces loyal to Ishida Mitsunari
commander1=Hosokawa Tadaoki
commander2=Unknown
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The 1600 siege of Tanabe was one of a number of battles which took place in parallel to the more influential series of battles known as the Sekigahara Campaign which led to the unification of Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Tanabe castle was held by Hosokawa Tadaoki, a revered scholar loyal to the Tokugawa. It is said that, due to the respect they held for Hosokawa, the besieging army was somewhat slower and less effective than they might have been otherwise, and in the end the battle served to tie up these Western Army (anti-Tokugawa) contingents, preventing them from being present at Sekigahara.

References

*Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co. p252.