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Itami Castle 270px, Map of Itami Castle. was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in Kawabe District of northern Settsu Province (what is now the city of Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture), Japan. It is also called .Its ruins have been protected as a Nation ...

would be attacked.

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forces under

Araki Murashige was a retainer of Ikeda Katsumasa, head of the powerful "Setssu-Ikeda clan" of Settsu Province. Under Katsumasa, Murashige sided with Oda Nobunaga following Nobunaga's successful campaign to establish power in Kyoto. Military life Murashige b ...

besieged the castle. In the meantime during the siege,

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attacked the castle by digging a long tunnel from outside the walls to a spot near the castle's keep. After the castle fell, Nobunaga gave the castle to

. Murashige expanded the castle, and it became one of the biggest castles in this region. Later, after the Araki Murashige rebellion, this castle was captured by Oda Nobunaga again at the

siege of Itami (1579) The second , also called the during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, occurred in 1579, five years after it was seized by Oda Nobunaga in Siege of Itami (1574) from Itami clan, and entrusted the Castle to Araki Murashige. Background I ...

. It was later abolished by Ikeda Motosuke, a major general under Oda Nobunaga.

References

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