Battle of Ozawahara
Battle of Ozawahara | |||||||
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Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
forces of the Hōjō clan | forces of the Uesugi clan | ||||||
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Hōjō Ujiyasu | Uesugi Tomooki | ||||||
The Battle of Ozawahara (Japanese: 小沢原の戦い) was fought in 1530 in the present day Asao, Kawasaki, Kanagawa. This was the first battle for Hōjō Ujiyasu, then sixteen years old.[1]
Ujiyasu faced Uesugi Tomooki at Ozawahara in Musashi Province. The battle was part of a seventeen-year struggle between the Hōjō clan and the Uesugi clan for control of the Kantō region which began with the 1524 Siege of Edo. The battle ended with a Hōjō victory.
References
[edit]- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.