Fushimi tower of Edo castle (now the Imperial Palace)
Date
January 1524
Location
Edo castle, modern-day Tokyo
Result
Hōjō victory
Belligerents
Hōjō Clan
Uesugi Clan
Commanders and leaders
Hōjō Ujitsuna Hōjō Genan
Uesugi Tomooki Ōta Suketaka
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Campaigns of the Hōjō clan
Arai
Edo
Nashinokidaira
Kamakura
Ozawahara
Musashi-Matsuyama 1537
Kawagoe (1537)
Kōnodai 1538
Kawagoe (1545)
Suruga-Sagami
Odawara 1561
Musashi-Matsuyama 1563
Kōnodai 1564
Hachigata 1568
Odawara 1569
Mimasetoge
Kanbara
Nirayama
Fukazawa
Omosu
Kanagawa
Hachigata 1590
Odawara 1590
Shimoda
Oshi
In the 1524 Siege of Edo, also known as the Battle of Takanawahara (高輪原の戦い), the Hōjō, led by Hōjō Ujitsuna, besieged Edo castle,[1]
which was held by Uesugi Tomooki. Though Edo has since become the Japanese metropolis of Tokyo, it was then a more or less insignificant fishing village in the Kantō region.
Eager to repel the attackers, Uesugi Tomooki led his warriors out of the castle to meet the Hōjō in battle at the Takanawa river crossing. However, Ujitsuna led his men around the Uesugi force and attacked them from the rear. Retreating to his castle, Tomooki found that the commander of his garrison, Ōta Suketaka, had betrayed him and opened the gates to the Hōjō.
The battle marked the beginning of a seventeen-year struggle between the Hōjō clans and Uesugi clans for dominance of the Kantō.
^Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassell & Co. p. 208. ISBN 1854095234.
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