The siege of Minamata Castle was a short siege of the castle of

Minamata is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. It is on the west coast of Kyūshū and faces Amakusa islands. Minamata was established as a village in 1889, re-designated as a town in 1912 and grew into a city in 1949. As of March 2017, the ...

. Minamata was the entry point for the Ōtomo lands in Higo province, the castle was guarded by

Sagara Yoshihi (1544–1581) was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period, who ruled a region in southern Higo Province. In the Siege of Minamata Castle, Sagara Yoshihi was guarded the Castle with 700 soldiers, it was a short siege of the castle of Mi ...

with 700 soldiers. When

Shimazu Toshihisa was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, he was a third son of Shimazu Takahisa, who served as a general officer and senior retainer of the Shimazu clan of Satsuma Province. He was fought in Battle of Mimigawa (1578), Siege of Mi ...

and Iehisa encamped near the castle with 115,000 men, Yoshihi was forced to surrender. Later, Yoshihi was killed in a surprise attack by Kai Soun's army in the Battle of Hibikinohara.

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