INTERACTIVE BATTLE

The Destruction of the Hakusan Foothills Ikkō-ikki

Name: The Destruction of the Hakusan Foothills Ikkō-ikki
Start: 1582-03
Location: Torigoe and Futokoro, Kaga Province (now around Misaka-machi and Deai-machi, Hakusan, Ishikawa)

March, Tenshō 10 · Torigoe and Futokoro, Kaga Province (now around Misaka-machi and Deai-machi, Hakusan, Ishikawa)

Sakuma Morimasa crushed the Yamanouchi-sōshō, the Ikkō-shū organization in the Hakusan foothills that had kept resisting at Torigoe and Futokoro castles after the fall of Oyama Gobo. Over 300 ikki fighters were executed, ending the Kaga Ikkō-ikki after nearly a century.

Background

Even after Oyama Gobo fell in 1580, the Yamanouchi-sōshō, an Ikkō-shū organization along the Tedori River led by Suzuki Dewa-no-kami, kept resisting from Torigoe and Futokoro castles. Both fell once in 1580, but the ikki retook them the following year, 1581.

Outcome

Sakuma Morimasa retook both castles and, in March 1582, crucified over 300 ikki fighters to suppress the uprising. This ended the resistance of the Kaga Ikkō-ikki, which had continued since the Bunmei era.

The Destruction of the Hakusan Foothills Ikkō-ikki — Torigoe and Futokoro, Kaga Province (now around Misaka-machi and Deai-machi, Hakusan, Ishikawa)

Course of the battle

1　March 1582

Torigoe and Futokoro castles fall; the ikki fighters are executed

Sakuma Morimasa retook Torigoe and Futokoro castles, which the ikki had recaptured the year before. Over 300 ikki fighters were crucified, ending the Kaga Ikkō-ikki's resistance of nearly a century.

佐久間盛政

Takes Torigoe and Futoge castles

鈴木出羽守

Resists from Torigoe and Futoge castles

Sources13·Certainty: High

Historical significance

With the Kaga Ikkō-ikki fully suppressed, the province came under Oda control in name as well as fact. Maeda Toshiie, who would eventually rule this land, was still lord of Fuchū in Echizen at the time; he received Kaga (Kanazawa Castle) only after the Battle of Shizugatake, in 1583.

Key figures

織田氏

佐久間盛政

Led the attack on Torigoe and Futokoro castles

Following the capture of Oyama Gobo, he also led the final suppression of the Hakusan foothills ikki.

Sources1·Certainty: High

本願寺・一向一揆

鈴木出羽守

Led the Yamanouchi-sōshō in resistance

Led the Yamanouchi-sōshō, an Ikkō-shū organization along the Tedori River, and resisted to the end from Torigoe and Futokoro castles.

Sources1·Certainty: High

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Notes on the data

磔刑に処された人数（300人余り）は白山市・石川県の資料による記載で、一次史料での裏付けは確認できていない。前田利家はこの時点では越前府中城主で、この鎮圧そのものへの従軍を示す資料は確認できていないため、参戦者には含めていない。

Sources consulted

白山市「史跡鳥越城跡附二曲城跡」
石川県「七尾城跡・鳥越城跡附二曲城跡」（県指定文化財解説）
城郭マスタ（shiro.geojson）

The numbers in the text refer to the list above. Certainty indicates how far a statement is supported by the cited sources; it does not refer to the precision of the coordinates or the dating.

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