| Siege of Takatenjin (1581) | |
| Date | 1581 |
| Location | Takatenjin, Tōtōmi Province |
| Result | Oda-Tokugawa Victory |
| Oda - Tokugawa | Takeda |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu | Okabe Motonobu † |
| Mizuno Katsushige Honda Shigetsugu Naitō Nobunari Sakai Tadatsugu Ōsuka Yasutaka Ishikawa Yasumichi Ishikawa Kazumasa Honda Tadakatsu Ōkubo Tadayo Sakakibara Yasumasa Torii Mototada |
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The Siege of Takatenjin of 1581 was a siege between the Oda - Tokugawa alliance against the Takeda clan.
Background[]
The Takeda outpost of Takatenjin was commanded by Okabe Motonobu.[1]
Battle[]
The siege of Takatenjin began in 1580, when Oda Nobunaga’s forces moved to isolate and encircle the Takeda fortress. The defenders held out for several months under increasingly difficult conditions. The siege ultimately concluded on 22 March 1581, ending with the deaths of 680 defenders.[2]
Aftermath[]
More than half of the defenders of Takatenjin in Tōtōmi Province had already died of starvation when the remaining garrison attempted a breakout. Forced to abandon the fortress, they descended over the walls, tore down the tree-trunk palisades surrounding the stronghold, and tried to escape. Tokugawa Ieyasu’s forces, however, repelled them on every front.[3]