In the 1526 siege of Kamakura (大永鎌倉合戦; "

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Battle of Kamakura"), Satomi Sanetaka led forces of the

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against the Hōjō, who had taken

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from the Uesugi two years earlier. The city was defended by a number of retainers of

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, including members of the Itō and Ogasawara families. The Uesugi forces burned much of the city to the ground, including Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū. This was a terrible psychological loss for the Hōjō, since the earlier

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, from which they took their name, had suffered their final defeat at the same location in 1333.

References

*Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co. *Turnbull, Stephen (2002). 'War in Japan: 1467-1615'. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. {{coord missing, Japan Kamakura 1526 1526 in Japan Conflicts in 1526 Kamakura 1526

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