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{{Short description|1570 siege}}
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{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Siege of Hanazawa
|partof=the [[Sengoku period]]
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|date=1570
|place=[[Hanazawa castle]], [[Suruga province]]
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|territory=Hanazawa falls to the Takeda
|result=[[Takeda clan|Takeda]] victory
|combatant1=[[Takeda clan]] forces
|combatant2=[[Imagawa clan]] forces
|commander1=[[Takeda Shingen]], [[Nagasaka Tsuruyasu]], [[Hajikano Saemon]]
|commander2=[[Ōhara Sukenaga]]
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{{Campaignbox Campaigns of the Takeda}}

The 1570 '''siege of Hanazawa''' was one of several battles fought between the [[Takeda clan|Takeda]] and [[Imagawa clan]]s during the Takeda's campaign to seize [[Suruga province]], during Japan's [[Sengoku period]].

Hanazawa castle was under the command of Imagawa general [[Ōhara Sukenaga]]. [[Nagasaka Tsuruyasu]], [[Hajikano Saemon]], and [[Takeda Shingen]] himself led the siege, which was successful in taking the castle after four days.

==References==
*Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.

{{coord missing|Shizuoka Prefecture}}

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[[Category:1570 in Japan]]
[[Category:Conflicts in 1570]]
[[Category:Sieges of the Sengoku period]]
[[Category:16th-century military history of Japan]]
[[Category:Attacks on castles in Japan]]
[[Category:Suruga Province]]
[[Category:Military history of Shizuoka Prefecture]]

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