siege, early modern

Siege of Ueda

Name: Siege of Ueda
Location: Ueda Castle, Japan

Siege of Ueda was a siege conducted in 1600 at Ueda Castle, in what is now Japan. The recorded result: Sanada clan garrison victory. Recorded strength: 38,000 against 2,000.

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Fought1600

WhereUeda Castle, Japan36.404N, 138.244E

OutcomeSanada clan garrison victory

BelligerentsForces of Tokugawa clanagainstForces of Sanada clan

Record

Date	1600 (year precision)
Place	Ueda Castle, Japan 36.404N, 138.244E
Kind	Siege, early modern
Territorial change	Siege abandoned
Strength	38,000	2,000
Commanders	Tokugawa Hidetada Sakakibara Yasumasa Honda Masanobu Sengoku Hidehisa Okudaira Nobumasa Ōkubo Tadachika	Sanada Masayuki Sanada Yukimura

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 Uedahara 1548, 2.9 km W
Battle of Unnodaira 1541, 4.4 km SE
Sieges of Toishi 1550, 4.8 km NE
Siege of Katsurao 1553, 9.7 km NW
Siege of Nagakubo 1543, 15 km S

Contested ground: this site was fought over 4 times between 1541 and 1600.

Elsewhere in 1600

Siege of Ueda is one of 1,470 engagements of the 16th century in the atlas and one of 604 in present-day Japan.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q848897, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Ueda, revision 1385602231, 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.