The second Siege of Odawara took place in 1569.

Takeda Shingen , of Kai Province, was a pre-eminent ''daimyō'' in feudal Japan. Known as the "Tiger of Kai", he was one of the most powerful Daimyo, daimyō with exceptional military prestige in the late stage of the Sengoku period. Shingen was a warlord of ...

attacked Odawara Castle, as a response to Hōjō's intervention into Shingen invasion of Suruga Province.

Background

In 1568, as a response to Hōjō clan intervention in Takeda invasion of Suruga Province,

broke the alliance with the Hōjō, and came into Hōjō territory.

Siege

Shingen came into

Musashi Province was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture. It was sometimes called . The province encompassed Kawasaki and Yokohama. Musashi bordered on Kai, Kōzuke, Sagami ...

from his home province of Kai, attacking Takiyama and

Hachigata Castle was a Sengoku period Japanese castle, located in the town of Yorii, Saitama Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1932. Overview Hachigata Castle was located on a peninsula su ...

s, where Ujiyasu's sons repulsed them. After failing at the Siege of Takiyama and

Siege of Hachigata (1568) The first siege of Hachigata castle took place in 1568; Takeda Shingen laid siege to the Hachigata Castle, which was controlled by Hōjō Ujikuni was a samurai of the Sengoku period, and the third son of Hōjō Ujiyasu. Ujikuni was a high-ra ...

nevertheless moved to

Sagami Province was a province of Japan located in what is today the central and western Kanagawa Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Kanagawa''" at . Sagami Province bordered the provinces of Izu, Musashi, and Suruga. It had access to the Pac ...

against the

Hōjō clan The was a Japanese samurai family who controlled the hereditary title of ''shikken'' (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate between 1203 and 1333. Despite the title, in practice the family wielded actual political power in Japan during this period ...

capital fortress of Odawara in 1569. The siege lasted only three days, after which the Takeda forces burned the town to the ground and left.

Aftermath

Odawara castle itself did not fall and was still held by the Hojo, end of Shingen's campaign at

against Hōjō clan.

References

*Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co. Odawara 1569 Odawara 1569 1569 in Japan Conflicts in 1569 {{Japan-battle-stub