siege, early modern

Siege of Kunohe

Name: Siege of Kunohe
Location: Kunohe Castle, Japan

Siege of Kunohe was a siege conducted in 1591 at Kunohe Castle, in what is now Japan. The recorded result: Toyotomi victory. Recorded strength: 60,000 against 5,000.

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Fought1591

WhereKunohe Castle, Japan40.267N, 141.304E

OutcomeToyotomi victory

BelligerentsForces of Toyotomi HideyoshiagainstForces of Kunohe Masazane

Record

Date	1591 (year precision) to 4 September 1591
Place	Kunohe Castle, Japan 40.267N, 141.304E
Kind	Siege, early modern
Territorial change	Unification of Japan under Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Strength	60,000	5,000
Commanders	Tokugawa Ieyasu Toyotomi Hidetsugu Nanbu Nobunao Gamo Ujisato Asano Nagamasa Uesugi Kagekatsu	Kunohe Masazane

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Noheji 1868, 34 km NW
Siege of Kuriyagawa 1062, 63 km S
Battle of Roppagawa 1579, 71 km NW
Battle of Miyako Bay 1869, 90 km SE
Battle of Kawasaki 1057, 158 km S

Elsewhere in 1591

Battle of Flores Portugal
Siege of Rouen France
Siege of Deventer Netherlands
Siege of Zutphen Netherlands
Siege of Knodsenburg Netherlands

Siege of Kunohe is one of 1,390 engagements of the 16th century in the atlas and one of 481 in present-day Japan.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q7510166, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Kunohe rebellion, revision 1380755900, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.