Siege of Fukuryūji

The siege of Fukuryūji took place in 1183, and was a battle of the Genpei War, the great 12th-century Japanese civil war between the Taira clan and the Minamoto clan.

Fukuryūji (福隆寺) was a fortress belonging to Seno Kaneyasu, a Taira partisan.

Imai Kanehira led his men across muddy ricefields, under heavy archer fire, to take the fortress.

The attackers were victorious, and Kaneyasu was killed.

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