Battle of Ishibashiyama

Battle of Ishibashiyama
	Part of the Genpei War
	; A 19th-century depiction of combat on the rocky shore at Ishibashiyama
Date	September 14, 1180
Location	Ishibashiyama, in the Hakone Mountains, near Mount Fuji in present-day Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture35.221111°N 139.140306°E
Result	Taira victory
Belligerents
Minamoto clan	Taira clan
Commanders and leaders
Minamoto no Yoritomo	Ōba Kagechika; Itō Sukechika;
Strength
300	3,000
Casualties and losses
unknown	unknown

The Battle of Ishibashiyama (石橋山の戦い, Ishibashiyama no tatakai) was the first in which Minamoto no Yoritomo, who became shōgun less than a decade later, was commander of the Minamoto forces. The battle was fought on September 14, 1180, in the southwest of present-day Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Yoritomo's headquarters at Kamakura.

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