Siege of Uozu

Siege of Uozu
DateMay-June 1582
Location
Uozu, Etchu province, Japan
Result Oda victory
Territorial
changes
Uozu and Matsukura Castle fall to Nobunaga
Belligerents
Forces of Oda Nobunaga Forces of Uesugi Kagekatsu
Commanders and leaders
Shibata Katsuie
Sassa Narimasa
Uesugi Kagekatsu
Strength
40,000 3,800

The 1582 Siege of Uozu Castle (魚津城の戦い, Uozu-jō no tatakai) was part of a border dispute between two daimyō of Japan's Sengoku period. The territories of Oda Nobunaga and the Uesugi clan, led by Uesugi Kagekatsu, met in Etchu Province; both were under threat from the Ikkō-ikki of Etchu, and from one another.

Seeking to ensure the security of Nobunaga's possessions, Shibata Katsuie and Sassa Narimasa, two of his chief generals, rode north from Toyama Castle, and laid siege to both the town of Uozu and nearby Matsukura Castle. Uozu fell on June 3, 1582, and Oda Nobunaga would die eighteen days later, in Kyoto, in the Incident at Honnō-ji.[1]

  1. ^ Turnbull, Stephen (2000). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & C0. p. 231. ISBN 1854095234.