Siege of Osaka

Siege of Osaka
	Part of the late Sengoku Period and the early Edo period
	; Illustration from François Caron's book: "The Burning of Osaka Castle"
Date	November 8, 1614 – January 22, 1615 and May – June 1615
Location	Osaka Castle, Osaka, Japan and surrounding areas
Result	Tokugawa shogunate victory; all threats to the shogunate temporarily eliminated.
Belligerents
Tokugawa shogunate and its loyalist banners: Matsudaira clan; Date clan; Honda clan; Tōdō clan; Kuroda clan; Ii clan; Hosokawa clan; Maeda clan; Hachisuka clan; Niwa clan; Asano clan; Mizuno clan; Sakai clan; Kyōgoku clan; Satake clan; Uesugi clan; Mōri clan; Sanada clan;	Toyotomi clan and its loyalist banners: Chōsokabe clan; Oda clan (switched sides); Tsutsui clan; Toyotomi retainers;
Commanders and leaders
Tokugawa Ieyasu; Tokugawa Hidetada; Todo Takatora; Ii Naotaka; Matsudaira Tadanao; Date Masamune; Honda Masanobu; Honda Tadatomo †; Satake Yoshinobu; Asano Nagaakira; Maeda Toshitsune; Uesugi Kagekatsu; Mōri Hidenari; Sanada Nobuyuki; Hosokawa Tadaoki	Toyotomi Hideyori †; Yodo-dono †; Sanada Yukimura †; Gotō Mototsugu †; Tsutsui Sadatsugu †; Akashi Takenori; Chōsokabe Morichika ; Mōri Katsunaga †; Fukushima Takaharu; Kimura Shigenari †; Ōno Harunaga †; Sanada Daisuke †; Ban Naoyuki †; Oda Nobukatsu (defected to Tokugawa side); Hosokawa Okiaki †
Strength
164,000 (winter); 150,000 (summer)	120,000 (winter); 60,000 (summer)
	Location within Osaka Prefecture Siege of Osaka (Japan)

The siege of Osaka (大坂の役, Ōsaka no Eki, or, more commonly, 大坂の陣 Ōsaka no Jin) was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese 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. The end of the conflict is sometimes called the Genna Armistice (元和偃武, Genna Enbu), because the era name was changed from Keichō to Genna immediately following the siege.

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