Battle of Ozawahara
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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. It ended with a Hōjō victory.
References
- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.