Siege of Kamakura
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The city of Kamakura, in what is now Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, was besieged twice.
- The 1333 siege marked the end of the power of the Hōjō clan, who had dominated the regency. The city was attacked and destroyed by the forces of Nitta Yoshisada.
- The 1526 siege was a serious psychological defeat for the Late Hōjō clan, because of the connections to the bitter defeat of their namesakes two centuries earlier. This battle took place towards the beginning of a seventeen-year conflict between the Late Hōjō and the Uesugi family over control of the Kanto plain.
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