Siege of Osaka Castle

siege of Osaka castle
Battle Information
Date	November 1614 - January 1615 May - June 1615
Location	Osaka
Result	Tokugawa Victory
Forces
Toyotomi	Tokugawa
Commanders
Toyotomi Hideyori †	Tokugawa Ieyasu
Notable Officers
Ōno Harunaga † Sanada Yukimura † Sanada Yukimasa † Mōri Katsunaga Ban Dan'emon † Chōsokabe Morichika † Gotō Mototsugu † Kimura Shigenari † Akashi Morishige	Tokugawa Hidetada Date Masamune Tōdō Takatora Hosokawa Tadaoki Ii Naotaka Ikeda Toshitaka Honda Tadatomo † Uesugi Kagekatsu Kutsuki Mototsuna Niwa Nagashige Horio Tadaharu Sanada Nobuyuki Sanada Nobumasa

The Siege of Osaka Castle was a series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages (Winter Campaign and Summer Campaign), and lasting from 1614 to 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the shogunate's establishment.

Background

In 1614, Toyotomi Hideyori, having reached adulthood, established himself in Osaka Castle, supported by a broad coalition of Toyotomi sympathizers that included disaffected Christian adherents as well as dispossessed daimyō.