Siege of Marune

Part of Battle of Okehazama

Date	1560
Location	Owari Province
Result	Imagawa victory

Belligerents

forces of Imagawa Yoshimoto

forces of Oda Nobunaga

Commanders and leaders

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Sakuma Morishige †

Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga

Inō Ukino Terabe Marune Okehazama Inabayama Castle Chōkō-ji Kanegasaki Anegawa Ishiyama Hongan-ji Mount Hiei Nagashima Mikatagahara Hikida Castle Odani Castle Ichijōdani Castle Itami Akechi Nagashino Mitsuji Kizugawaguchi Shigisan Tedorigawa Takatenjin Tottori Hijiyama Temmokuzan Takatō Uozu Honnō-ji

Campaigns of Tokugawa Ieyasu

Terabe Marune Okehazama Azukizaka Kakegawa Anegawa Futamata Mikatagahara Takatenjin Yoshida Nagashino Temmokuzan Takatō Komaki and Nagakute Odawara Korea Sekigahara Osaka

The Siege of Marune (丸根砦の戦い) was a battle during the Sengoku period (16th century) of Japan.

Marune was a frontier fortress in the possession of Oda Nobunaga. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was at the time a forced retainer of the Imagawa, captured the fortress as part of the Imagawa advance that led to the fateful Battle of Okehazama in 1560. Throughout Ieyasu's siege of this castle, he made good use of concentrated arquebus fire. During the siege Sakuma Morishige, the commander of the fortress, was killed by a bullet.^[1]

References

↑ Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassell & Co. p. 215. ISBN 1854095234.

Coordinates: 35°03′52″N 136°56′43″E / 35.06444°N 136.94528°E / 35.06444; 136.94528

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