Siege of Negoro-ji
| Siege of Negoro-ji | |||||||
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| Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Negoro-shū, the warrior monks of Negoro-ji | Forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Saika Ikki |
Toyotomi Hideyoshi Hosokawa Fujitaka Hori Hidemasa Takayama Shigetomo Tōdō Takatora | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 30,000–50,000 | 6,000 | ||||||
The siege of Negoro-ji (根来寺の戦い, Negoro-ji no Tatakai) was commanded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a former vassal of Oda Nobunaga, who came to inherit his armies, his land, and his rivalry with the warrior monks of Japan when Nobunaga was killed in 1582. Thus, in a way this was the next in a series of many sieges that Oda Nobunaga's forces undertook in the 1580s, against the many fortresses of warrior monks.