Battle of Ozawahara
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 fifteen years old.
| 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 | ||||||
He faced Uesugi Tomooki. 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. It ended with a Hojo victory.
References
- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.
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