Siege of Suemori
| Siege of Suemori | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Sasa forces | Toyotomi forces | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Sasa Narimasa | Maeda Toshiie, Okumura Nagatomi | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 15,000 | |||||||
The Siege of Suemori (末森の戦い Suemori no Tatakai) was a battle during the Azuchi-Momoyama period (16th century) of Japan.
At the time of the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute, Sasa Narimasa sided against Toyotomi Hideyoshi, while his former companion, Maeda Toshiie stood with Toyotomi. Narimasa and Toshiie came to blows by battling at the castle of Suemori Castle. Narimasa had laid siege to the Suemori castle 9 October with 15,000 men. Okumura Nagatomi, along with his wife, had defended the castle to their fullest extent, but soon their situation became very desperate. Toshiie arrived in the middle of the night, and defeated the forces of Narimasa. With this action of Toshiie's, he became established as the most powerful daimyo in the Kaga (now Ishikawa prefecture) region of Japan. Toshiie would go on to become one of the most powerful daimyo in all of Japan, after only Toyotomi and Tokugawa.
References
The Samurai Sourcebook