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Siege of Osaka

The siege of Osaka (大坂の役, Ōsaka no Eki, or, more commonly, 大坂の陣 Ōsaka no Jin) was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages, the winter campaign and the summer campaign, it lasted from 1614 to 1615. The siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. The end of the conflict is sometimes called the Genna Armistice (元和偃武, Genna Enbu), because the era name was changed from Keichō to Genna immediately following the siege.

In popular culture[edit]

The siege is the subject of the Hiroshi Inagaki's historical drama "Ōsaka-jō monogatari" (engl. The Tale of Osaka Castle, UK; some other English titles: "Daredevil in the Castle", "Devil in the Castle", "Osaka Castle Story") (1961) with Toshiro Mifune in the leading role.[21] It is also the backdrop for Tai Kato's musical film Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (1963).[22]


The fall of Osaka is (for most of the characters) the final level in the Samurai Warriors series, also serving as the climax of Hattori Hanzō's, Ieyasu's and Yukimura's stories. Called the "Osaka Campaign", it compiles all the battles of the Winter and Summer Campaigns. In the computer game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, the siege of Osaka castle is the setting of the first (and demo) mission.


The siege of Osaka also is the main setting for the tv show, Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles.


The protagonist, Tsugumo Hanshirō, of the film Harakiri, mentions his status as a veteran of the siege of Osaka Castle.


The events of the siege and its fallout form the backstory for the 1974 Toei TV series Unmeitōge.


The siege campaign serves as the setting for the video game Nioh's final two DLC. The game's second DLC, "Defiant Hope", is set during the Winter campaign whereas the third DLC, "Bloodshed's End", is set during the Summer campaign up through the fall of Osaka castle and the beginning of the Genna Era.[23]

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De Lange, William. (2022). The Siege of Osaka Castle: The Winter and Summer Campaigns. Groningen: Toyo Press.  978-949-2722-386

ISBN

激闘大坂の陣―最大最後の戦国合戦(2000). ISBN 978-4-05-602236-0

Gakken

戦況図録大坂の陣―永き戦乱の世に終止符を打った日本史上最大規模の攻城戦(2004) 新人物往来社  978-4-404-03056-6

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Kenji Fukui (2018). [Todo Takatora theory] (in Japanese). 塙書房. ISBN 978-4-8273-1296-6. Retrieved 11 May 2024.

藤堂高虎論

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Stephen Turnbull

(2012). Ninja AD 1460–1650. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781782002567. Retrieved 11 May 2024.

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