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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"
DateNovember 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 Executed
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)

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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