Here a video by Owada Tetsuo explaining Sunomata Castle. There is a brief mention of Sunomata in The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga (p. 108)
"In Eiroku 4, the Year of Metal Junior and the Bird, in the first decade of the Fifth Month, Nobunaga crossed the wide expanse of the Kiso and Hida rivers and forced his way into western Mino. After setting fire to several locations and settlements in the area, he gave orders to establish a strongpoint at Sunomata."
The best English reading material regarding to Sunomata is David D. Neilson Society at War: Eyewitness Accounts of Sixteenth Century Japan (pp. 123, 133, 207, 217, 226) are important information on Sunomata.
One of the reasons why Oda Nobuhide failed twice in the 1540s attacking Mino was not the Saito, but Mother Nature was the enemy, the rivers. The water of the river was the Saito key ally. I have written about this in the past.
As for the stockade, it took about five days to build and about 500 guns were equipped for Hachisuka Koroku and his men.
Nobunaga no tame!
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