Sengoku figure

Kyōgoku Takatsugu

京極高次

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1600

10/13

Siege of Otsu Castle begins

Held Otsu Castle

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Kyogoku Takatsugu, who had gone over to the Eastern side, shut himself in Otsu Castle, and a Western force of some 15,000 under Mori Motoyasu and Tachibana Muneshige invested it.

10/21

Otsu Castle surrenders

Surrendered on the day of Sekigahara

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Kyogoku Takatsugu gave up Otsu Castle on the same day as the battle at Sekigahara, so the large Western force besieging it never reached the decisive field.