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{{Short description|1560 siege in Japan}}
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|conflict=Siege of Marune
|partof=[[Battle of Okehazama]]
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|date=1560
|place=[[Owari Province]]
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|result=[[Imagawa]] victory
|combatant1=forces of [[Imagawa Yoshimoto]]
|combatant2=forces of [[Oda Nobunaga]]
|commander1=[[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Matsudaira Motoyasu]]<br>[[Sakai Tadatsugu]]<br>[[Ishikawa Kazumasa]]<br>[[Koriki Kiyonaga]]
|commander2=[[Sakuma Morishige]]{{KIA}}
|strength1= 5,000
|strength2= 600
|casualties1= significant
|casualties2= entire garrison
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{{Campaignbox Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga}}
{{Campaignbox Campaigns of Tokugawa Ieyasu}}
The {{nihongo|'''siege of Marune'''|丸根砦の戦い}} was a battle during the [[Sengoku period]] (16th century) of Japan.
Marune was a frontier fortress in the possession of [[Oda Nobunaga]]. 

[[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Matsudaira Motoyasu]] (who would later come to be known as Tokugawa Ieyasu) was at the time a forced retainer of the [[Imagawa]], captured the fortress as part of the Imagawa advance that led to the fateful [[Battle of Okehazama]] in 1560. Throughout Motoyasu's siege of the castle, he and his men were not present at the Battle of Okehazama where [[Imagawa Yoshimoto]] was killed in Nobunaga's surprise assault. 

In this siege, Motoyasu made good use of concentrated [[arquebus]] fire. Later during the siege, [[Sakuma Morishige]] the commander of the fortress, was killed by a bullet.<ref name=Turnbull2>{{Cite book |last=Turnbull |first=Stephen |title=The Samurai Sourcebook |publisher=Cassell & Co. |year=1998 |ISBN=1854095234 |page=215}}</ref>

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[[Category:1560 in Japan]]
[[Category:Conflicts in 1560]]
[[Category:Sieges of the Sengoku period]]
[[Category:Military history of Aichi Prefecture]]
[[Category:Owari Province]]
[[Category:Attacks on military installations in Japan]]
[[Category:16th-century military history of Japan]]
[[Category:Battles of Oda Nobunaga]]


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