Siege of Kawagoe Castle

Siege of Kawagoe Castle
Part of the Sengoku period

Honmaru Goten of Kawagoe Castle
DateOctober 1545 – May 19, 1546
Location
Result
  • Hōjō clan victory
  • Uesugi Tomosada killed in action
  • Siege fails
Belligerents
Later Hōjō clan
Commanders and leaders
Strength
Garrison: 3,000
Relief: 8,000
Total: 11,000 troops
Total: 80,000 troops
Casualties and losses
Unclear, presumably minimal 13,000–16,000 killed or wounded

The 1545–1546 Siege of Kawagoe Castle (河越城の戦い, Kawagoe-jyō no tatakai) was part of a failed attempt by the Uesugi clan to regain Kawagoe Castle from the Later Hōjō clan in the Sengoku period of Japan. Uesugi Tomosada of the Ogigayatsu branch of the Uesugi clan attacking Kawagoe castle, he was joined by his more powerful relative Uesugi Norimasa from Yamanouchi branch Uesugi clan, who held the post of Kantō Kanrei, the shōgun's deputy in the Kantō region by Ashikaga Haruuji,[1] the Kantō kubō in Koga, and by a host of anti-Hōjō daimyō from the Kantō region.

  1. ^ Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassell & Co. p. 211. ISBN 1854095234.