Tomoe Gozen defeats Uchida Ieyoshi and Hatakeyama Shigetada.
Date
February 21, 1184
Location
Awazu, Ōmi Province
Result
Minamoto no Yoshitsune et al. victory; Minamoto no Yoshinaka killed
Belligerents
Minamoto clan loyalists
Minamoto clan rebels
Commanders and leaders
Minamoto no Yoshitsune Minamoto no Noriyori
Minamoto no Yoshinaka † Imai Kanehira †
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t
e
Genpei War
1st Uji
Nara
Ishibashiyama
Fujikawa
Sunomata-gawa
Yahagi-gawa
Hiuchi
Kurikara Pass
Shinohara
Mizushima
Fukuryūji
Muroyama
Hōjūjidono
2nd Uji
Awazu
Ichi-no-Tani
Kojima
Yashima
Dan-no-ura
Minamoto no Yoshinaka made his final stand at Awazu, after fleeing from his cousins' armies, which confronted him after he attacked Kyoto, burning the Hōjūjiden, and kidnapping Emperor Go-Shirakawa. During the pursuit he was joined by his foster brother Imai Kanehira and Tomoe Gozen.[1][2]
During the battle, they fought valiantly, holding off Noriyori's large force of thousands of men for a time. However, in the end, they both died in battle.
Yoshinaka was struck dead by an arrow when his horse became mired in a paddy field. Kanehira committed suicide by leaping off his horse while holding his sword in his mouth.[3][4][5]
^Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford University Press. pp. 296–297. ISBN 0804705232.
^Turnbull, Stephen (2016-07-28). The Gempei War 1180–85: The Great Samurai Civil War. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 58–63. ISBN 978-1-4728-1385-5.
^Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassell & Co. p. 204. ISBN 1854095234.
^Turnbull, Stephen (1977). The Samurai, A Military History. MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 66. ISBN 0026205408.
^The Tales of the Heike. Translated by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press. 2006. p. 88. ISBN 9780231138031.
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