Siege of Miki
| Siege of Miki | |||||||||
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| Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||||
 The encirclement of Miki by Hashiba Hideyoshi |
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Forces of Oda Nobunaga | Forces of Bessho Nagaharu | ||||||||
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| Hashiba Hideyoshi | Bessho Nagaharu † | ||||||||
The siege of Miki (三木合戦?) lasted from 1578 to 1580. Toyotomi Hideyoshi took Miki Castle of Harima Province, located in what is now Miki, Hyōgo, Japan, from Bessho Nagaharu, an ally of the Mōri clan.
The original Shugo (governor) of the province was the Akamatsu clan, with the Bessho clan and Kodera clan as its Shugodai (deputy governor). The Akamatsu clan were one of the most powerful shugo of the previous Shogunate having at one point being the shugo of 4 separate provinces, however, by this time they had already greatly declined in power, and was but a nominal leader holding together a collapsing coalition of clans in Harima.
When Hashiba Hideyoshi entered the province on the order of Oda Nobunaga in late 1576, the Akamatsu clan leader Akamatsu Norifusa decided to simply surrender to the Oda while he still had a decent deal on the table, and soon after the Bessho clan and Kodera clan also submitted.
Having apparently taken all of Harima without bloodshed, Hideyoshi proceeded to move his base of operation to Himeji, the former residential castle of the Akamatsu, and began preparing for a showdown with the Mōri clan, however during this time, Beesho Nagaharu's uncle Bessho Yoshichika was reported to have felt insulted having to submit to Hideyoshi, who was born a commoner. He managed to convince his nephew to rebel, and also set up a secret alliance with the Mori clan. Soon after his rebellion, the Kodera clan also joined in.
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